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Design and Composition

Key books about the design and composition of buildings.

• Alexander, Christopher. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
  HUNT STACKS-4 NA2500 .A445

• Baker, Geoffrey H. Design Strategies in Architecture: An Approach to the Analysis of Form. 2nd ed. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold; London; New York: E & FN Spon, 1996.
  HUNT FA-REF-4 NA2750 .B318 1996

• Ching, Frank. Architecture: Form, Space & Order. 3rd. ed. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 2007.
  HUNT FA-REF-4 NA2760 .C46 2007

• Clark, Roger H. and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture: Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis, 3rd ed. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2005.
  HUNT FA-REF-4 NA2750 .C55 2005

• Eisenman, Peter. Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques. New York: Monacelli Press, 2003.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 NA1123 .T4 E37 2003

• Haraguchi, Hideaki. A Comparative Analysis of 20th-Century Houses. New York: Rizzoli, 1989.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 NA7125 .H38 1989

• Krier, Rob. Architectural Composition. New York: Rizzoli, 1988.
  HUNT STACKS-4 NA2760 .K68 1988

• Laseau, Paul and James Tice. Frank Lloyd Wright: Between Principle and Form. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 NA737 .W7 L37 1991

• Leupen, Bernard, et al. Design and Analysis. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1997.
  HUNT STACKS-4 NA2750 .O5813 1997

• Robert McCarter, editor. Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer on Architectural Principles. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1991.
  HUNT STACKS-4 NA737 .W7 F678 1990

• Meiss, Pierre von. Elements of Architecture: From Form to Place. London; New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990.
  HUNT STACKS-4 NA2760 .M4413 1989

• Rasmussen, Steen E. Experiencing Architecture. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1962.
  HUNT STACKS-4 NA2550 .R313 1962

• Rowe, Colin and Robert Slutzky. Transparency. Basel; Boston: Birkhäuser Verlag, 1997.
  HUNT STACKS-4 NA2765 .R69 1997

• Unwin, Simon. Analysing Architecture. 2nd ed. London and New York: Routledge, 2003.
  HUNT FA-REF-4 NA2750 .U58 2003

• Weston, Richard. Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections, and Elevations. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004.
  HUNT FA-REF-4 NA2705 .W44 2004

Compiled by Martin Aurand and Kai Gutschow.