Gunnar Asplund3 reviews Peter Blundell Jones Phaidon Press, 2006 phenomenal book on an underrated figure + College-level art library holdings will find much to recommend + Beautiful Tribute to a Pioneer This is a beautifully illustrated, comprehensive monograph on the underrated Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund. Although Asplund's work is contemporary with Mies, Le Corbusier, and Aalto, it is of an entirely different current -- Asplund weaves together vernacular, classical and modernist influences ...             Precis of the Lectures on Architecture: With Graphic Portion of the Lectures on Architecture (Texts and ...1 review Jean-Nicholas-Louis Durand Getty Publications, 2000 Finally a good translation!!! This is one of the most comprehensive documents in the history of architectural design. J.N.L. Durand's infatuation with design methods and classification marked the beginning of a new rational architecture. This magnificent work of architectural literature must be read and reviewed by every person ...             Lectures on Architecture (Volume 2) Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc Dover Publications, 1987             The Inner Harmony of the Japanese House7 reviews Atsushi Ueda Kodansha International, 1998 The Good, the Bad and the Very Ugly of Japanese Architecture + Bible of Traditional Japanese Home Architecture + The Inner Harmony of the Japanese House/ The original title in japanese was "The Japanese and the house" and that should have been the English title. Don't expect a sales-advertisement trying to sell you japanese architecture as the world's most perfect, showing you only the most perfect examples, like most books on the subject do; this ...             Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures4 reviews Birkhäuser Basel, 2005 Essential book for architecture students and teachers + Outstanding + The best student foundation book + Great resource             Le Corbusier : Complete Works in Eight Volumes9 reviews Birkhäuser Basel, 2006 The definitive statement on Modern Architecture + jaume + good- fair + a must have + Oeuvre Complete             Modern Architecture Through Case Studies1 review Peter Blundell-Jones Architectural Press, 2002 Extraordinary book Peter Blundell Jones is one of the very few contemporary architectural teachers/critics/reviewers/historians out there that actually creates architectural knowledge when he writes. He is an architect to begin with, just like all the (few) other writers in this British architectural writing ...             Dwellings: The Vernacular House Worldwide5 reviews Paul Oliver Phaidon Press, 2007 Beautiful Book on Handmade Houses + Great Photographs-Weaker Text + inspiring text ! + an inclusive view to see architecture + A great photographer             Tents1 review Torvald Faegre John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1979 An excellent source of historic nomadic tent information This book is considered to be one of the leading sources for available information about nomadic tents and their construction. Full of diagrams, line illustrations and construction details, it covers a wide geographic area. Examples of lifestyles and customs help one understand how the cultures' ...             The Structure of the Ordinary: Form and Control in the Built Environment3 reviews N. J. Habraken The MIT Press, 2000 Ultimately Illuminating!!! + Essential I found this book to be both insightful and ultimately very influential as to my own thoughts on sustainable design, urban planning, and the contemporary values and accustomed comfort levels which we, the western societies of the world, have come to take for granted when we think about our built ...             Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) John Dixon Hunt University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000             The Details of Modern Architecture: Volume 2: 1928 to 1988 (Details of Modern Architecture)8 reviews Edward R. Ford The MIT Press, 2003 Just like the first one + explains why "God is in Details" + Scholarly text and incredibly detailed drawings Like the first volume, excellent book. Be prepared, however, for sentences like this, on page 127: "Perhaps because this methodology required the juxtaposition of opposites seemingly incapable of reconciliation, the irrational combination of radically different techniques, and the simultaneous ...             Lectures on Architecture (Volume 2) Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc Dover Publications, 1987             The Structure of the Ordinary: Form and Control in the Built Environment3 reviews N. J. Habraken The MIT Press, 2000 Ultimately Illuminating!!! + Essential I found this book to be both insightful and ultimately very influential as to my own thoughts on sustainable design, urban planning, and the contemporary values and accustomed comfort levels which we, the western societies of the world, have come to take for granted when we think about our built ...             Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures4 reviews Birkhäuser Basel, 2005 Essential book for architecture students and teachers + Outstanding + The best student foundation book + Great resource             Tents1 review Torvald Faegre John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1979 An excellent source of historic nomadic tent information This book is considered to be one of the leading sources for available information about nomadic tents and their construction. Full of diagrams, line illustrations and construction details, it covers a wide geographic area. Examples of lifestyles and customs help one understand how the cultures' ...             Modern Architecture Through Case Studies1 review Peter Blundell-Jones Architectural Press, 2002 Extraordinary book Peter Blundell Jones is one of the very few contemporary architectural teachers/critics/reviewers/historians out there that actually creates architectural knowledge when he writes. He is an architect to begin with, just like all the (few) other writers in this British architectural writing ...             The Details of Modern Architecture: Volume 2: 1928 to 1988 (Details of Modern Architecture)8 reviews Edward R. Ford The MIT Press, 2003 Just like the first one + explains why "God is in Details" + Scholarly text and incredibly detailed drawings Like the first volume, excellent book. Be prepared, however, for sentences like this, on page 127: "Perhaps because this methodology required the juxtaposition of opposites seemingly incapable of reconciliation, the irrational combination of radically different techniques, and the simultaneous ...             Precis of the Lectures on Architecture: With Graphic Portion of the Lectures on Architecture (Texts and ...1 review Jean-Nicholas-Louis Durand Getty Publications, 2000 Finally a good translation!!! This is one of the most comprehensive documents in the history of architectural design. J.N.L. Durand's infatuation with design methods and classification marked the beginning of a new rational architecture. This magnificent work of architectural literature must be read and reviewed by every person ...             The Inner Harmony of the Japanese House7 reviews Atsushi Ueda Kodansha International, 1998 The Good, the Bad and the Very Ugly of Japanese Architecture + Bible of Traditional Japanese Home Architecture + The Inner Harmony of the Japanese House/ The original title in japanese was "The Japanese and the house" and that should have been the English title. Don't expect a sales-advertisement trying to sell you japanese architecture as the world's most perfect, showing you only the most perfect examples, like most books on the subject do; this ...