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18245074 No.18245074 [Reply] [Original]

Where do I begin with architectural theory?

>> No.18246112

Books on pre-ww2 architecture?

>> No.18246204

>>18245074
Delirious New York by Koolhaas is cool, an architectural history of New York from its founding to modern times.

>> No.18246321

>>18245074
Nikolaus Pevsner - An Outline of European Architecture

Leland M. Roth - Understanding Architecture

Or the 16th edition of the Banister Fletcher if you want an older book that isn't written by a jew.

>> No.18246334

>>18246321
I should also mention Summerson's "The Classical Language of Architecture" alongside with Fil Hearn's "Ideas that Shaped Buildings".

>> No.18246339

>>18245074
De architectura - Vitruvius
Four Books of Architecture - Palladio
Cities in Civilization - Peter Hall
Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning - Amanda Clark, Leland Roth
World Architecture: The Masterworks - Will Pryce
Italian Baroque and Rococo Architecture - John Varriano

>> No.18246368

>>18246339
The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built - Stewart Brand

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18247447

Thank you anons, I appreciate the recs

>> No.18247908

>>18246204
opened thread to recommend this

>> No.18248102

>>18246204
oh shut the fuck up

>> No.18248204

>>18245074
You just shout "form follows function" as though a building needing to be convenient to use is mutually exclusive with visual appeal.

>> No.18248246

>>18247908
Greetings fellow patrician.

>> No.18249581

bump

>> No.18249585

>>18245074
Are you Hungarian?

>> No.18249607

>>18245074
It's called Building, Anon. We don't use the axxxxxxxture word here.

>> No.18249831

>>18249585
No, Colombian. Why?
The photo is from one of our public libraries, designed by Rogelio Salmona

>> No.18249863

>>18245074
You can disagree with the following lecture on an array of levels, but you can't deny it's enlightening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FPdrLlshRA

>> No.18249868

>>18249831
I swear like 80% of architecture threads on all of 4chan are made by Hungarians, so I am glad you have made it this time.

>> No.18249994

>>18249863
Looks interesting, will watch as soon as I have some time
>>18249868
I haven't noticed lmao, it's just that I've been reading a lot about architecture and I want to start with the basics

>> No.18250001

Don't get into architecture. The meme is brutalism atm and it pisses my friend off no end.

>> No.18250404

>>18249994
>Looks interesting, will watch as soon as I have some time
It's one of the best lectures on the visual arts I've found; it's extra interesting to see how a full-blooded contemporary Schopenhauerian fairs.

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18250664

a cathartic pomo clown wurl read

>> No.18250676

>>18245074
This looks like a Tony Hawk Pro Skater level

>> No.18250799

>>18250001
>Why do socalists promote the most undistinguished and cheapest way to build buidlings?
Yeah real head scratcher for me

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18250827

>mfw people actually defend brutalism

>> No.18250831

begin and end with arcology