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The Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard
4.18 average rating, · 11.5k ratings
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The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
Juhani Pallasmaa
4.37 average rating, · 4.6k ratings
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Thinking Architecture
Peter Zumthor
4.23 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Atmospheres: Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects
Peter Zumthor
4.43 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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S, M, L, XL
Rem Koolhaas
4.25 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Robert Venturi
4.09 average rating, · 2k ratings
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The System of Objects
Jean Baudrillard
4.01 average rating, · 2k ratings
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Da cosa nasce cosa: Appunti per una metodologia progettuale
Bruno Munari
4.04 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
Adam Greenfield
4.01 average rating, · 1k ratings
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The Wretched of the Screen
Hito Steyerl
4.34 average rating, · 724 ratings
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I Paint What I Want to See
Philip Guston
4.10 average rating, · 703 ratings
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Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture
Christian Norberg-Schulz
4.26 average rating, · 530 ratings
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