Architecture Books, My Library of Essentials

A list of the architecture books essential to my practice and a look at my personal library. These are the books I keep close at hand in my studio and I ve arranged them into six themes: history, narrative, process and making, machines and architecture; details, and fundamental architectural principles. See also: Links to the books in the order they re presented: Architecture: From Prehistory to Postmodernity (Trachtenberg) Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Frampton) Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings. (Visser) Reading the Forested landscape The Granite Landscape (Wessels) Thinking architecture (Zumthor) In Praise of Shadows (Tanizaki) Condemned Building (Darden) Out of print (insanely br, br,