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Space, Hope, and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945-1975

By Elain Harwood

Now You See It and Other Essays on Design

By Michael Beirut

His Invention So Fertile

By Adrian Tinniswood

This Brutal World

By Peter Chadwick

The Empire State Building: the Making of a Landmark

By John Tauranac

Adolf Loos

By August Sarnitz, Peter Goessel

Calatrava

By Philip Jodidio, Santiago Calatrava, Peter Goessel

Lautner

By Barbara-Ann Campbell-Lange, Peter Goessel

Architecture in the 20th Century

By Peter Gossel, Gabriele Leuthauser

Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense

By Jenny Uglow

Amongst the Ruins: Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear

By John Darlington

Sites of Antiquity: From Ancient Egypt to the Fall of Rome, 50 Sites that Explain the Classical World

By Charles Freeman

Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals

By Ken Follett

Britain's Lost Railways: The Twentieth-Century Destruction of Our Finest Railway Architecture

By John Minnis

The Complete Greek Temples

By Tony Spawforth

Japanese Architecture: A Short History

By A. L. Sadler, Mira Locher

The Grammar of Architecture

By Cole, Emily

Living in Houses: A Personal History of English Domestic Architecture

By Ruth Dalton

Architecture: A Visual History

By Jonathan Glancey

Florence: A Traveller's Reader

By Edward Chaney, harold acton

Pharaohs of the Sun: Radio 4 Book of the Week, How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty

By Guy de la Bédoyère

The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture

By Meaghan Kombol

Chicago: a Guide to Recent Architecture

By Susanna Sirefman, Tom Neville, Jonathan Moberly

Romanesque Churches of France: A Traveller's Guide

By Peter Strafford

Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text

By Irene A. Bierman

The Transformation of Islamic Art during the Sunni Revival

By Yasser Tabbaa

Towards Universality: Le Corbusier, Mies and De Stijl

By Richard Padovan

Brunelleschi's Dome: The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence

By Ross King

The Story of Western Architecture

By Bill Risebero

Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture

By Dan Cruickshank, Sir Banister Fletcher, Andrew Saint, Kenneth Frampton, Peter Blundell Jones