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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. Covey – This is a universally loved book by people in every field.

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On Case Studies

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Although the word monograph literally applies to any book devoted to any individual subject — be it a person, a place, a thing, or even an idea — in the realm of architecture books that one-word term is used more prevalently, if not strictly, in regards to individual architects and/or firms. as "case studies."

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Reconstructing the Stockholm Exhibition 1930

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

dDAB COMMENTARY : Although it took more than 75 years for it to be translated into English, one of the books I felt the need to include in Buildings in Print: 100 Influential and Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books was Acceptera , the manifesto of Swedish modernism that came out one year after the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930.

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Rotative Studio brightens Swiss town square with modular wooden pavilions

Deezen

The blue pavilion houses a library of books. The blue pavilion is home to a library of books stored on shelves behind glass sliding doors. The blue pavilion is home to a library of books stored on shelves behind glass sliding doors. Books are encased behind sliding glass doors.

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Architecture Education Through The Ages: Part I, Pre-Revolutionary France

Architizer

Students should not face unworkable schedules that force them to sacrifice their sleep and overall health. Just recently, an Architizer article by Samantha Frew lamented the ubiquit y of “all nighters” among architecture students. The first academic architecture students didn’t have grades or even assignments. .

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Places in Time II

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Those three US-centric books were split between two historical surveys and one case study. Their scale is too small; the contrast between streets and blocks is too low; it's not clear how the four maps join up; the lists of buildings keyed to the maps do not extend to the book's pages. Like other parts of Encounters , Dipl.–Ing.

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Architizer Holiday Gift Guide 2022

Architizer

We believe it’s never too early to get started on the path to becoming a brilliant, world-changing architect, and Little Genius Architecture agrees. The creative and funny book is a great gift to help try to explain to younger kids why you are wailing at a computer screen full of colored lines again.