Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Projects Robert Hobbs The MIT Press, 2005 Winner, Scholarly Illustrated Category, 2007 AAUP Book Jacket and Journal Show. and Received an Honorable Mention in the Art & Art History category of the 2005 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. Alice Aycock's large, semi-architectural works deal with the interaction of structure, site, materials, and the ...             The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals: A Study of Medieval Vault Erection6 reviews John Fitchen University Of Chicago Press, 1997 How did they do it? + Gothic architecture + Unique book + Maximum height and maximum light + A Gothic Cathedral version of This Old House             Alvar Aalto6 reviews Richard Weston Phaidon Press, 1997 Funtastic book! + So beautiful as Alvar Aalto's architecture + great book If you are one those who don't like boring books, and you like books to show good photografs, this is the book you have to buy about this great architect that ALVAR AALTO was. This book is one of my favourites and believe, i have plenty of book is my room. Amazing book and amazing photografs!             The Stone Skeleton: Structural Engineering of Masonry Architecture8 reviews Jacques Heyman Cambridge University Press, 1997 For Layman AND Engineer Alike + technical but phenominal + Excellent Reference + a wonderfully technical work + Not for the layman             Carlo Scarpa: Architecture and Design3 reviews Rizzoli, 2007 Filling the gaps + Buy this book. Period. This book fulfills the promise that "Carlo Scarpa: The Complete Works" did not deliver in that it is a very complete survey of Scarpa's built work. Among the things the book does very well includes the photography, which even of works as well documented as the Brion Cemetery and the Castlevecchio, ...             Structure Systems2 reviews Hatje Cantz, 2007 the most important structures book for architects + a great structure index for architect This is ASTRONOMICALLY THE BEST architectural structures book of all time!! This is the second book for a serious architecture student or architect to buy after Deplazes' foundation book. My structures education was so frustrating because it was not VISUAL. I longed for a book like this 20 years ...             NOX: Machining Architecture4 reviews Lars Spuybroek Thames & Hudson, 2004 good for students + A very inspiring book + Controversial but very good this is the best book i have ever saw. i'm a student for architecture and it helped me with my studies. i showed the book to my college prophesors and they agree with me, that is a fantastic book that all should see it and learn from it. their are wonerfull ideas in it.             Eladio Dieste: Innovation in Structural Art2 reviews Stanford Anderson Princeton Architectural Press, 2004 Eladio Dieste's Scientific Design + Great book This is something unusual in the field of building. A book that describes in detail how technical innovations can be both poetically and environmentally friendly. The voice of underdeveloped Countries is distinctly heard in the soft tones of Eladio Dieste architectural works. As Holderlin once ...             Frei Otto, Complete Works: Lightweight Construction - Natural Design Birkhäuser Basel, 2005 Frei Otto, awarded the Royal Gold Medal 2006 by the Royal Institute of British Architects, is one of Germany’s most innovative architects in the second half of the 20th century. He taught at the MIT in Cambridge before founding an internationally renowned Institute for Lightweight Structures in 1964. Frei Otto’s systematic research of a lightweight and adaptable construction, his ...             Pamphlet Architecture 17: Small Buildings (Pamphlet Architecture)3 reviews Mike Cadwell Princeton Architectural Press, 1996 A MUST HAVE FOR ANY GOOD COLLECTION!!! + An Architect's Valuable Insight + a real education This is a collection of exceptional works. Tectonically beautiful and intricate, his small buildings represent some of the finer points of simple thought in architecture. His own commentary and a conclusion by Turner Brooks allow a clear and concise understanding of the projects. As a former ...             Graphic Guide to Frame Construction: Details for Builders and Designers (For Pros by Pros)45 reviews Rob Thallon Taunton, 2000 Great reference + pretty good + Great + Great basic reference for residential building             Shigeru Ban5 reviews Matilda McQuaid Phaidon Press, 2006 Excellent, persuasive monograph + Not just Show + continuated + Shigeru Ban + "Shigeru Ban is the future."             Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture4 reviews Kenneth Frampton The MIT Press, 2001 A must buy! + Concrete Poetry + work and think + Read the Tectonics in Architecture             Tadao Ando4 reviews Philip Jodidio Taschen, 2004 Great monograph for your collection~ + Sensibility + Awesome photos of Awesome architecture + ando's huge book             Strange Details (Writing Architecture)1 review Michael Cadwell The MIT Press, 2007 Thickening Tectonics There is no better argument for the reexamination of "architectural language" than this excellent book by Michael Cadwell. Writing in a tradition stemming from Kenneth Frampton's "Studies in Tectonic Culture," this volume examines four buildings by canonic figures--Carlo Scarpa, Frank Lloyd Wright, ...             Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures4 reviews Birkhäuser Basel, 2005 Essential book for architecture students and teachers + Outstanding + The best student foundation book + Great resource             The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals: A Study of Medieval Vault Erection6 reviews John Fitchen University Of Chicago Press, 1997 How did they do it? + Gothic architecture + Unique book + Maximum height and maximum light + A Gothic Cathedral version of This Old House             Tadao Ando4 reviews Philip Jodidio Taschen, 2004 Great monograph for your collection~ + Sensibility + Awesome photos of Awesome architecture + ando's huge book             Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures4 reviews Birkhäuser Basel, 2005 Essential book for architecture students and teachers + Outstanding + The best student foundation book + Great resource             The Stone Skeleton: Structural Engineering of Masonry Architecture8 reviews Jacques Heyman Cambridge University Press, 1997 For Layman AND Engineer Alike + technical but phenominal + Excellent Reference + a wonderfully technical work + Not for the layman