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Between Humanism and Materialism by Alvar Aalto, Ornament and Crime by Adolf Loos, Dual Phenomena by Aldo Van Eyck, The Culture of Cities by Lewis Mumford, Communitas by Paul and Percival Goodman, The Exploding Metropolis by the editors of Fortune, Taming Megalopolis by H Wentworth Eldredge, Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstuer, Suburban Nation The Rise of Sprawl by Andres Duany, The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, Redesigning The American Dream by Dolores Hayden, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces by William H Whyte, The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch, Site Planning by Kevin Lynch, Experiencing Architecture by Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Design of Cities by Edmund Bacon, Great Streets by Alan B Jacobs, Urban Space by Rob Krier, The Spaces Between Buildings by Larry Ford, Town and Square by Paul Zucker, The Italian Landscape by Ivor de Wolfe, Architectural Compositions by Rob Krier, The Silent Language by Edward T Hall, The Hidden Dimension by Edward T Hall, Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher Alexander, Defensible Space by Oscar Newman, Modern Housing Prototypes by Roger Sherwood, The Place of Houses by Charles Moore, On Houses and Housing by Venturi Scott Brown and Assoc., American Masterworks The 20th Century House by Kenneth Frampton, Home A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybezynski, Cradle to Cradle by Will McDonough... Harper's Magazine
Respectable Buildings and the Architects that made them. Villa Muller in Prague Stresovice Czech Republic by Adolf Loos, Villa Mairea in Noormarkku Finland by Alvar Aalto, Paimo Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Paimo Finland by Alvar Aalto, Baker Dormitory in Boston Massachusetts by Alvar Aalto, Opera House in Essen Germany by Alvar Aalto, Convent of La Tourette in Eveux sur Arbresle France by Charles Edouard Jeanneret, Villa Savoye in Poissy France by Charles Edouard Jeanneret, Carpenter Center in Boston Massachusetts by Charles Edouard Jeanneret, Unite D'Habitation in Marseilles France by Charles Edouard Jeanneret, Notre Dame Du Haut in Ronchamp France by Charles Edouard Jeanneret, Salk Institute in La Jolla California by Louis Kahn, Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth Texas by Louis Kahn, Exeter Library in Exeter New Hampshire by Louis Kahn, Hubertushuis in Amsterdam Netherlands by Aldo Van Eyck, Municipal Orphanage in Amsterdam Netherlands by Aldo Van Eyck