100+ Books for Your Architectural Library - Harshal Shinde: Architect, Interior designer, Hyderabad

I always have envied people who claim to read one or two books a week. In my case, I will be happy if I could finish even one book every month. Because, as is true with all good books, every few pages, I come upon a potent sentence or paragraph which sends my mind away on some idea to explore, and the book lays forgotten for the next few hours, days, or even years.

My student days at the University of Cincinnati allowed me to explore one of the best and largest libraries I have ever had the benefit of using. Here is a mix of some books which I read long ago, and some interesting ones that I found in later times, in no particular order.

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№.	BOOK TITLE
1	Modern Architecture: A Critical History. 4e (World of Art) - Kenneth Frampton
2	Studies in Tectonic Culture - The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture (The MIT Press)
3	Modern Architecture Since 1900 : William J.R. Curtis
4	Learning from Las Vegas - Symbolism of Architectural Form 2e (The MIT Press)
5	A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
6	How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built
7	Urban Space - Rob Krier
8	Architectural Composition (Architecture) - Rob Krier
9	House Form and Culture (Foundations of Cultural Geography)
10	Meaning In Western Architecture
11	In The Nature Of Materials (Da Capo Paperback)
12	Kengo Kuma: Complete Works
13	Detailing for Landscape Architects: Aesthetics, Function, Constructibility
14	The Architectural Detail
15	The Details of Modern Architecture V 1 (The MIT Press)
16	The Details of Modern Architecture V 2 - 1928–1988 (The MIT Press)
17	Five Houses, Ten Details (Writing Matters)
18	Herman Hertzberger - Lessons for Students in Architecture
19	The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
20	Projective Cast - Architecture & its Three Geometries (The MIT Press)
21	The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture (Architectural Design Primer)
22	Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory (Sociolinguistics)
23	Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary Of Modern Architecture
24	Living in the Endless City: The Urban Age Project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Society
25	The Endless City
26	Urban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design
27	Rem Koolhaas: Elements of Architecture
28	Four Walls and a Roof - The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession
29	Buildings without Architects: A Global Guide to Everyday Architecture
30	Between Silence and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn
31	Louis Kahn - Essentials Texts
32	Architecture for the Poor: Experiment in Rural Egypt
33	Rendering in Pen and Ink: The Classic Book On Pen and Ink Techniques for Artists, Illustrators, Architects, and Designers (Practical Art Books)
34	Rendering with Pen and Ink (The Thames & Hudson Manuals)
35	Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture
36	The Urban Pattern City Planning and Design 5Ed (Pb 2005)
37	The Image of the City (Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies Series)
38	Spaces Speak, Are You Listening? - Experiencing Aural Architecture (The MIT Press)
39	Modern Architecture 4e (World of Art)
40	Experiencing Architecture 2e (The MIT Press)
41	The Modulor and Modulor 2 \| Le Corbusier
42	Studio Craft & Techniques for Architects
43	Buy House Form and Culture (Foundations of Cultural Geography)
44	The History of Architecture in India
45	The Past as Present: Forging Contemporary Identities Through History
46	Architect and Entrepreneur: A Field Guide to Building, Branding, and Marketing Yo: Volume 1
47	BIG. Hot to Cold. An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation
48	The Architecture of the City (Aldo Rossi)
49	Architectural Acoustics (J Ross Publishing Classics)
50	Buy Perception and Lighting as Formgivers for Architecture
51	101 Things I Learned® in Urban Design School
52	Celebrating Public Spaces of India (First Edition, 2016)
53	Design with Climate - Bioclimatic Approach to Architectural Regionalism - New and expanded Edition
54	Buy Energy Efficient Buildings in India
55	CLIMATE RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURE:A Design Handbook for Energy Efficient Buildings: Arvind Krishan, Nick Baker, Simos Yannas, Steve Szokolay
56	Energy Efficient Buildings in India
57	Letters to a Young Architect
58	Structures: J. E. Gordon: one of the “14 Books that inspired Elon Musk”
59	Earthen Floors: A Modern Approach to an Ancient Practice
60	Clay and lime renders, plasters and paints: A How-to Guide to Using Natural Finishes (Sustainable Building)
61	Bamboo: Architecture and Design
62	Bamboo Architecture & Design (Architecture & Materials)
63	A Place In The Shade: The New Landscape & Other Essays
64	In Search of Bawa: Master Architect of Sri Lanka
65	Building with Stabilized Mud
66	Alternative Building Materials and Technologies
67	Elements of Spacemaking \| Yatin Pandya
68	Concepts of Space in Traditional Indian Architecture
69	The Spirit of Indian Architecture
70	Bruno Zevi: Architecture As Space: How to Look at Architecture
71	Towards a New Architecture (Le Corbusier)
72	Thinking Architecture: Third, expanded edition
73	S, M, L, XL - Rem Koolhaas
74	In Praise of Shadows (Vintage Classics)
75	Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture)
76	Improving Earthquakes and Cyclone Resistance of Structures: Guidelines for the Indian Subcontinent
77	Roger Anger: Research on Beauty Architecture 1953–2008
78	Manual of Tropical Housing and Building
79	The Barefoot Architect: A Handbook for Green Building
80	Landscape Architecture In India, A Reader
81	Landscape Graphics: Plan, Section, and Perspective Drawing of Landscape Spaces
82	Drawing Ideas: A Hand-Drawn Approach for Better Design
83	The Exceptionally Simple Theory of Sketching: Easy to Follow Tips and Tricks to Make your Sketches Look Beautiful
84	101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (The MIT Press)
85	The Architecture of Happiness
86	Invisible Cities (Vintage Classics)
87	The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
88	The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings: TED Series
89	Siteless - 1001 Building Forms (The MIT Press)
90	Operative Design: A Catalog of Spatial Verbs
91	Conditional Design: An introduction to elemental architecture
92	Yes is More. An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution
93	Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All Reviews & Ratings - Amazon.in
94	Design as Art (Penguin Modern Classics)
95	Color, 2nd edition: A workshop for artists and designers (A practical guide on color application for artists and designers)
96	Living with Color
97	Living with Pattern
98	Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crisis
99	Design Like You Give a Damn {2}: Building Change from the Ground Up
100	Manual of Section
101	The Business of Design: Balancing Creativity and Profitability (business and career guide to creating a successful design firm) –Keith Granet
102	Shadow: the architectural power of withholding light — Simon Unwin
103	The Creative Act — Rick Rubin
104	Analysing Architecture : the Universal Language of Place-making, 5th Edition — Simon Unwin