Category:Architecture books
From ArticleWorld
In addition to specific academic studies, architects have a long tradition of setting out their design philosophies in book-form, often as manifestos. The architectural canon includes: Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius, The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin, The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning by Fredrick Etchells, Le Corbusier's Towards a New Architecture, Adolf Loos's Ornament and Crime, Antonio Sant'Elia's Manifesto of Futurist Architecture, Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for New York and the Bauhaus Manifesto, which begins: 'The ultimate aim of all creative activity is a building!'.