Recommended Literature

The Art of the New Urbanism features the first-ever, comprehensive collection of New Urbanist artworks, with more than 200 selected works produced by more than 100 practitioners and firms. The collected works include plans, renderings of buildings, streetscapes and gathering places, studies of precedents, and photographs of built projects.

Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud presents a powerful criticism of modernist views on architecture and argues that the rise of obfuscation and philosophical posturing among architects and architectural academics is primarily a defensive strategy intended to draw attention away from the failure of Modernism in architecture.

Classical Architecture: A Complete Handbook

Architectural Rendering in Wash

The Art of the New Urbanism features the first-ever, comprehensive collection of New Urbanist artworks, with more than 200 selected works produced by more than 100 practitioners and firms. The collected works include plans, renderings of buildings, streetscapes and gathering places, studies of precedents, and photographs of built projects.

by Robert Adam

by Harold van Buren

Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud

The Art of the New Urbanism

by James Dougherty & Charles C. Bohl

by Branko Mitrovic

Indication in Architectural Design

by David Varon

Yingzao Fashi Commentary

by Liang Sicheng

Townplanning in Practice

by Raymond Unwin

Palladio’s Four Books on Architecture

by Andrea Palladio

Classical Architecture: Language, Variety & Adaptability

by James Stevens Curl

Well arranged, logical, and aptly illustrated, this classic survey covers every aspect of the design process. It addresses architectural principles as well as their practical application, examining general questions of scale, balance, proportion, and symmetry and presenting detailed treatments of doors, windows, walls, stairways, columns, and other features.

Nir Haim Buras

The Secrets of Architectural Composition

The Art of Classic Planning

by Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis

An accomplished architect and urbanist goes back to the roots of what makes cities attractive and livable, demonstrating how we can restore function and beauty to our urban spaces for the long term. The Art of Classic Planning celebrates the enduring principles of urban design and invites us to return to building beautiful cities.

Get Your House Right

by Marianne Cusato & Ben Pentreath

Sick of McMansions? Marianne Cusato, creator of the award-winning Katrina Cottages, is a champion of traditional architectural principles: structural common sense, aesthetics of form, appropriateness to a neighborhood, and sustainability. She presents the definitive guide to what makes houses look and feel right, revealing the dos and donts of livable home design.