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Classical Architecture

The Poetics of Order
By Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre

This fascinating introduction to classical art and architecture is the first book to investigate the way classical buildings are put together as formal structures. It researches the generative rules, the poetics of composition that classical architecture shares with classical music, poetry, and drama, and is enriched by a variety of examples and an extensive analysis of compositional rules. The 205 line drawings make up a discourse of their own, a pictorial text that serves as an introductory theory of composition or basic design aid.

Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science

By Alberto Pérez-Gómez

The Architecture of the City

By Aldo Rossi

Collage City

By Colin Rowe and Prof Fred Koetter

This book is a critical reappraisal of contemporary theories of urban planning and design and of the role of the architect-planner in an urban context. The authors rejecting the grand utopian visions of "total planning" and "total design," propose instead a "collage city" which can accommodate a whole range of utopias in miniature.

Site Planning, Third Edition

By Kevin Lynch and Gary Hack

Good City Form

By Kevin Lynch

With the publication of The Image of the City in 1959, Kevin Lynch embarked upon the process of exploring city form. Good City Form is both a summation and an extension of his vision, a high point from which he views cities past and possible.

First published in hardcover under the title A Theory of Good City Form

American Architecture

Volume 2: 1860-1976
By Marcus Whiffen and Frederick Koeper

The second volume of a guide comprehensive guide to American Architecture, covering developments between the years 1860 and 1976.

Building the Dream

A Social History of Housing in America
By Gwendolyn Wright

Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century

Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier
By Robert Fishman

The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays

By Colin Rowe

This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs by Palladio and Le Corbusier, discusses mannerism and modern architecture, architectural vocabulary in the 19th century, the architecture of Chicago, neoclassicism and modern architecture, and the architecture of utopia.