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Books on Building Architecture
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Alexander, Christopher,
The Phenomenon of Life: The Nature of Order Part 1,
Center for Environmental Structure, 2003. |
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Alexander, Christopher,
The Process of Creating Life: The Nature of Order Part 2,
Center for Environmental Structure, 2003. |
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Alexander, Christopher,
A Vision of a Living World: The Nature of Order Part 3,
Center for Environmental Structure, 2004. |
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Alexander, Christopher,
The
Timeless Way of Building, Oxford University Press, 1979.
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Alexander, Christopher,
A
Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, Oxford University Press, 1977.
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Alexander, Christopher, H. Neis, A. Anninou, I.
King, A
New Theory of Urban Design, Oxford University Press, 1987.
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Alexander, Christopher, H. Neis, A. Anninou, I.
King, A
New Theory of Urban Design, Oxford University Press, 1987.
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Brand, Stewart, How
Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built, Penguin, 1994.
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Jacobson, Max,
Murray Silverstein, and Barbara Winslow,
Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design,
Taunton, (hardcover) 2002;
paperback (2005)
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Kidder, Tracy, House,
Avon, 1985.
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Levy, Matthys, Mario Salvadori, and Kevin Woest,
Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail,
W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition,1994.
Comment: Written for the "young adult," but
wouldn't it be great if we had this kind of analysis for Software
Architecture? |
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Levy, Matthys and Richard Panchyk,
Engineering the City: How Infrastructure Works, Chicago
Review Press, 2000.
Comment: Written for the "young adult," but nice
explanation of basic principles and useful as a source of metaphors
for Enterprise Architecture and System Architecture. |
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Salvadori, Mario,
The Art of Construction: Projects and Principles for Beginning
Engineers and Architects, Chicago Review Press, 1990.
Comment: Introductory text, but nice explanation of basic principles
and useful as a source of metaphors for Software Architecture and
architectural mechanisms. |
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Mario Salvadori, and
Why Buildings Stand Up, W. W.
Norton & Company; Reissue edition,
2002. Comment: Written for the "young
adult," but wouldn't it be great if we had this kind of analysis for
Software Architecture? |
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Van Der Meer, Ron, D. Sudjic, The
Architecture Pack: A Unique, Three-Dimensional Tour of Architecture
over the Centuries: What Architects Do, How They Do It, and the Great
Buildings They Have Given Us Around the World, Knopf, 1997.
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