100 Essential Architecture Books

at the Baldwin Public Library

MICHIGAN ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION 553 East Jefferson Ave. Selected and funded by the Rae Dumke Fund of the: Detroit, Michigan 48226-4324 PH: 313-965-4100 EMAIL: [email protected]

BALDWIN PUBLIC LIBRARY 300 W. Merrill Birmingham, MI 48009 www.baldwinlib.org 248-554-4650 Monographs Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams ABC of architecture (The Library of America) James F. O'Gorman FICTION ADAMS ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720 OGORMAN New York then and now Architects on architecture: new directions in America Marcia Reiss Paul Heyer 974.71 REISS ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.973 HEYER Pastoral capitalism: a history of suburban corporate landscapes The architecture of happiness* Louise A. Mozingo Alain De Botton (PROSE Award for Architecture & Urban Planning) ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 710.1 DE BOTTON 307.7609 MOZINGO

Between silence and light: spirit in the architecture of Louis I. Kahn Trees for American gardens John Lobell Donald Wyman ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.92 LOBELL GARDEN/LANDSCAPE 715.2097 WYMAN

Complexity and contradiction in architecture The works: anatomy of a city Robert Venturi Kate Ascher ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.1 VENTURI 307.1216 ASCHER

Creation is a patient search Le Corbusier ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 709.44 LE CORBUSIER * Indicates that an eBook or eAudiobook copy is available in addition to a print copy. Experiencing architecture Steen Eiler Rasmussen ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720 RASMUSSEN

The future of architecture in 100 buildings Marc Kushner ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 724.7 KUSHNER

Goodbye history, hello hamburger: an anthology of architectural delights and disasters Ada Louise Huxtable ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.973 HUXTABLE

House* Tracy Kidder ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 690.837 KIDDER

Kicked a building lately? Ada Louise Huxtable ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720 HUXTABLE

Page 2 Page 15 Kindergarten chats and other writings Youth Louis H. Sullivan ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.4 SULLIVAN Arches to zigzags: an architecture alphabet Michael J. Crosbie Learning from Las Vegas: the forgotten symbolism of architectural form CONCEPT E CROSBIE Robert Venturi ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.9793 VENTURI The California missions Valerie Weber The legacy of Albert Kahn J979.4 WEBER Albert Kahn ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.924 KAHN Castle* David Macaulay Mies van der Rohe at work J623 MACAULAY Peter Carter ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.92 CARTER Cathedral David Macaulay Morphosis: buildings and projects J726.6 MACAULAY Peter Cook ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.922 COOK Pyramid David Macaulay The natural house J932 MACAULAY Frank Lloyd Wright ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 728.081 WRIGHT

Underground The old way of seeing David Macaulay Jonathan Hale J624.19 MACAULAY ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.19 HALE

The wump world The poetics of space Bill Peet Gaston Bachelard E PEET ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 114 BACHELARD

The search for form in art and architecture Eliel Saarinen Other Architecture-Related Books of Note ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 701.8 SAARINEN

Gardner’s art through the ages Small, medium, large, extra-large: Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rem Helen Gardner Koolhaas, and Bruce Mau OVERSIZE 709 GARDENER Edited by Jennifer Sigler ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.9 SMALL Helvetica and the New York City subway system: the true (maybe) story Paul Shaw The seven lamps of architecture* (PROSE Honorable Mention for Architecture & Urban Planning) John Ruskin OVERSIZE 686.224 SHAW ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.222 RUSKIN

Page 14 Page 3 The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style The not so big house: a blueprint for the way we really live Ada Louise Huxtable Sarah Susanka ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 725.2219 HUXTABLE ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 728.37 SUSANKA

Thinking architecture Rethink: the way you live Peter Zumthor Amanda Talbot ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.01 ZUMTHOR ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 747 TALBOT

Towards a new architecture Le Corbusier Biography ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.219 LE CORBUSIER “The busiest man in England”: a life of Joseph Paxton, gardener, architect, and The unreal America: architecture and illusion Victorian visionary Ada Louise Huxtable Kate Colquhoun ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.973 HUXTABLE BIOGRAPHY PAXTON

Wrestling with Moses: how Jane Jacobs took on New York’s master builder and A clearing in the distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the transformed the American city* nineteenth century Anthony Flint Witold Rybczynski ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 711.4092 FLINT BIOGRAPHY OLMSTED

Yes is more: an archicomic on architectural evolution The devil in the white city: murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed BIG Bjarke Ingels Group America* ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.92 BIG Erik Larson BIOGRAPHY MUDGETT History Frank Lloyd Wright Ada Louise Huxtable Architecture in the 20th century, volumes 1 and 2 BIOGRAPHY WRIGHT Peter Gössel ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 724.6 GOSSEL Fiction Architecture, anyone? Ada Louise Huxtable The agony and the ecstasy: a biographical novel of Michelangelo ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 724.9 HUXTABLE Irving Stone FICTION STONE At home: a short history of private life* Bill Bryson The fountainhead ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 643.1223 BRYSON Ayn Rand FICTION RAND Brunelleschi's Dome: how a Renaissance genius reinvented architecture* Ross King Loving Frank* ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 726.6 KING Nancy Horan FICTION HORAN

Page 4 Page 13 Buildings across time: an introduction to world architecture Sustainable Architecture Michael W. Fazio ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.9 FAZIO Cabin porn Zach Klein Buildings of Michigan ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 728.73 CABIN Kathryn Bishop Eckert ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.9774 ECKERT Cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make things* William McDonough The buildings that revolutionized architecture ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 745.2 MCDONOUGH Florian Heine ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.9 HEINE Microshelters: 59 creative cabins, tiny houses, tree houses, and other small structures Cities and people: a social and architectural history Derek Diedricksen Mark Girouard ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 690.89 DIEDRICKSEN ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 307.7 GIROUARD

Sustainable: houses with small footprints The city in history: its origins, its transformations, and its prospects Avi Friedman Lewis Mumford ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 728.047 FRIEDMAN ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 301.36 MUMFORD

Sustainable preservation: greening existing buildings The Duchamp dictionary Jean Carroon Thomas Girst ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.47 CARROON ESSENTIAL ARCHITECUTRE 720.4409 GIRST

Sustainable urbanism: urban design with nature* A field guide to American houses: the definitive guide to identifying and Edited by Douglas Farr understanding America’s domestic architecture ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 307.76 SUSTAINABLE Virginia Savage McAlester ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 728 MCALESTER Wood architecture now! Philip Jodidio Forgotten landmarks of Detroit ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 721.0448 JODIDIO Dan Austin ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 977.434 AUSTIN

Interior Design The four books on architecture* Andrea Palladio Beauty: Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720 PALLADIO National Design Triennial ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 701.17 BEAUTY Future of architecture Frank Lloyd Wright Creating the not so big house: insights and ideas for the new American home ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.4 WRIGHT Sarah Susanka ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 728.0973 SUSANKA A global history of architecture Frank Ching Furnitecture: furniture that transforms space ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.9 CHING Anna Yudina ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 749 YUDINA

Page 12 Page 5 From Bauhaus to our house* Preservation Tom Wolfe ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.973 WOLFE The future of the past: a conservation ethic for architecture, urbanism, and historic preservation Gothic for the Steam Age: an illustrated biography of George Gilbert Scott Steven W. Semes Gavin Stamp ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.103 SEMES ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.92 STAMP Historic preservation: an introduction to its history, principles, and practice The great bridge: the epic story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge* Norman Tyler David G. McCullough ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 363.69 TYLER ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 624.5509 MCCULLOUGH Historic preservation and the livable city A history of the future Eric W. Allison Donna Goodman ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 363.69 ALLISON ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 709.03 GOODMAN How buildings learn: what happens after they’re built* The house with sixteen handmade doors: a tale of architectural choice and Stewart Brand craftsmanship ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.1 BRAND Henry Petroski ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 728.3709 PETROSKI A richer heritage: historic preservation in the twenty-first century Edited by Robert E. Stipe Introduction to architecture ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 363.6909 RICHER Frank Ching ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720 CHING City Guides Latin America in construction: architecture 1955-1980 Barry Bergdoll AIA Detroit: the American Institute of Architects guide to Detroit architecture ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.98 LATIN Eric J. Hill ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.9774 HILL Le Corbusier: ideas & forms William J.R. Curtis AIA Guide to New York City ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.L92 CURTIS Edited by Norval White ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.9747 AIA Lost Detroit: stories behind the Motor City’s majestic ruins* Dan Austin The buildings of Detroit: a history ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 977.434 AUSTIN W Hawkins Ferry ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.9774 FERRY Lost New York Marcia Reiss Delirious New York: a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.9747 REISS Rem Koolhaas ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.9747 KOOLHAAS Modern architecture: a critical history Kenneth Frampton ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 724 FRAMPTON

Page 6 Page 11 From art to landscape: unleashing creativity in garden design Sir Banister Fletcher's a history of architecture W. Gary Smith Sir Banister Fletcher ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 712.2 SMITH ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.9 FLETCHER

Gardens are for people Space, time and architecture: the growth of a new tradition Thomas D. Church Sigfried Giedion ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 712.6 CHURCH ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.9 GIEDION

Landscape architecture: a manual of environmental planning and design Theory and design in the first machine age Barry W. Starke Reyner Banham ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 712 STARKE ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 724.91 BANHAM

Technical Books Vitruvius: the ten books on architecture* Vitruvius 101 things I learned in architecture school* ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720 VITRUVIUS Matthew Frederick ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720 FREDERICK The world's greatest buildings: masterpieces of architecture and engineering Henry J. Cowan Architecture: form, space, and order* ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.9 COWAN Frank Ching ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.1 CHING Urban Planning

Becoming an architect: a guide to careers in design Lee W. Waldrep American architecture and urbanism ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.23 WALDREP Vincent Scully Jr. ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.973 SCULLY Design thinking Peter G. Rowe The American city: what works, what doesn’t ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 729.219 ROWE Alexander Garvin ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 711.4097 GARVIN How buildings work: the natural order of architecture Edward Allen The architecture of the city ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 721 ALLEN Aldo Rossi ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 711.4 ROSSI Precedents in architecture: analytic diagrams, formative ideas, and partis Roger H. Clark City: rediscovering the center ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720 CLARK William H. Whyte ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 307.76 WHYTE What style is it?: a guide to American architecture John C. Poppeliers Collage city ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.973 POPPELIERS Colin Rowe ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 711.4 ROWE

Why buildings stand up: the strength of architecture Combinatory urbanism: the complex behavior of collective form Mario Salvadori Thom Mayne ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 690.21 SALVADORI ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 724.6 MAYNE

Page 10 Page 7 The death and life of great American cities* Greek revival America Jane Jacobs Roger G. Kennedy ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 307.7609 JACOBS ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.973 KENNEDY

Design of cities Hide and seek: the architecture of cabins and hide-outs Edmund N. Bacon Sofia Borges ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 711.4 BACON ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 728.73 HIDE

The image of the city Home by design: transforming your house into home Kevin Lynch Sarah Susanka ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 711.4 LYNCH ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 728.3709 SUSANKA

Makeshift metropolis: ideas about cities Hugh Newell Jacobsen, architect: works from 1993 to 2006 Witold Rybczynski Hugh Newell Jacobsen ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 711.4097 RYBCZYNSKI ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 702 JACOBSEN

A pattern language: towns, buildings, construction Midcentury houses today: New Canaan, Connecticut Christopher Alexander Jeffrey Matz ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.1 ALEXANDER ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 728.3709 MATZ

Phaidon atlas of 21st century world architecture Coffee Table Books Editors of Phaidon Press ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 724.7222 PHAIDON 10 x 10 Editors of Phaidon Press The Phaidon atlas of contemporary world architecture ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 724.6 TEN Editors of Phaidon Press ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 724.7 PHAIDON 10 x 10/2: 100 architects, 10 critics Editors of Phaidon Press ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 724.6 TEN Landscape Architecture

10 x 10/3: 100 architects, 10 critics 100 years of landscape architecture: some patterns of a century Editors of Phaidon Press Melanie Simo ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 724.6 TEN ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 712.0973 SIMO

Fallingwater: a Frank Lloyd Wright country house Bold romantic gardens: the New World landscapes of Oehme and van Sweden Edgar Kaufmann Jr. Wolfgang Oehme ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 728.372 KAUFMANN ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 712.0973 OEHME

Frontier metropolis: picturing early Detroit, 1701-1838 Design on the land: the development of landscape architecture Brian Leigh Dunnigan Norman T. Newton ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 977.434 DUNNIGAN ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 712.09 NEWTON

Great architecture of Michigan Design with nature John Gallagher Ian L. McHarg ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 720.9774 GALLAGHER ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE 304.222 MCHARG

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