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Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
series of artist biographies by Giorgio Vasari
Athens Charter
proceedings of a conference
Modulor
thumbnail|Commemorative Swiss coin showing the modulor.
The Modulor is an anthropometric scale of proportions devised by the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965).
Toward an Architecture
essay collection by Le Corbusier
Yingzao Fashi
Architecture book by Jie Li
Architects' data
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Palazzi di Genova
essay by Peter Paul Rubens
The Poetics of Space
monograph by Gaston Bachelard
acceptera
acceptera (1931) is a Swedish modern architecture manifesto written by architects Gunnar Asplund, Wolter Gahn, Sven Markelius, Eskil Sundahl, Uno Åhrén, and art historian Gregor Paulsson. Claiming that Swedish “building-art” (byggnadskonst) has failed to keep pace with the revolutionary social and technological change sweeping Europe in the early 20th century, the authors argue that the production of housing and consumer goods must embrace a functionalist orientation in order to meet the particular cultural and material needs of both modern society and the modern individual. Combining social a
Den Danske Vitruvius
book by Laurids de Thurah
Hafnia Hodierna
book by Laurids de Thurah
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
book by Christopher Alexander
Wasmuth Portfolio
book by Frank Lloyd Wright
The Singular Objects of Architecture
book by Jean Baudrillard