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The 50 Best Architecture Books

The Architect's Guide

Architecture Books Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. For this post, I thought I would put together an exhaustive list of the best architecture books. The Architecture Reference & Specification Book updated & revised: Everything Architects Need to Know Every Day. UPDATED: April 8, 2021.

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Mapping Your Firm’s Strategy: Visual Business Frameworks for Architects and Designers

Architizer

There are endless books and online resources on various approaches to strategic planning. Visual business models can be a powerful tool for creative professionals, like architects, who often prefer to communicate through drawings and diagrams. So, where do you start?

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Three Lessons from Three Monographs

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Writing a blog devoted to architecture books means featuring monographs — lots of monographs. Monographs are an unavoidable part of architecture books.

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The 14 Books Every Future Architect Should Read

EntreArchitect

After responding to a hopeful architect on Dwell.com I decided to flesh out my answer and include more books. Naturally there is some overlap and some of these books could fit in multiple headings, this is architecture after all. Being a successful architect takes more than creating a wonderful idea and presenting it to your client.

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European Library of Information and Culture (BEIC) by noa* network of architecture

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To reach it, one ascends a one-of-a-kind elevator, a proper tower of books, picked up as needed by an automated system. Through this astonishing landscape of moving books, the highest point of the BEIC is reached. Accessibility diagram. Sustainability diagram. Image © noa* network of architecture. Ground Floor Plan.

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Four Monographs

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Of the numerous books publishers send me for review — be they requested by me, pitched by them, or arriving at my doorstep unsolicited — the highest percentage of them are monographs. But books, in my opinion, are better archives than websites, offering architects a further level of control over the finished product compared to websites.

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Color, Cartoons, Collage and PoMo: Are Photorealistic Architectural Renderings Going Out of Style?

Architizer

While their drawings and architecture are beautiful and elegant in their own right, they are also made to inspire change and rethink what it means to practice today. Their playful axon rendering is a great example of how firms can inspire change by underlining the beauty and ingenuity of repurposing and retrofitting for the future.