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Composition, proportion

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New flatness

Alicia Imperiale

2000

Architecture and the principle of harmony

Peter F. Smith

1987

Scale in architecture

Frank Orr

1985

Exploring visual design

Joseph A. Gatto

1978

The shapes of structure

Heather Martienssen

1976

Archetypes in architecture

Thomas Thiis-Evensen

1987

Atlas of novel tectonics

Jesse Reiser

2005

Architecture, form, space & order

Frank Ching

1979 ★ 5.0

Ten canonical buildings 1950-2000

Peter Eisenman

2008

Complexity and contradiction in architecture

Robert Venturi

1966

The principles of architectural composition

Howard Robertson

1924

Structure : the essence of architecture

1983

Architecture shapes

Michael J. Crosbie

1993

Architectural proportion

A. J. Bryan

1880

The Parthenon and other Greek temples

Jay Hambidge

1924

Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, and the Road to Modern Architecture

Werner Oechslin

2002

The Projective Cast

Robin Evans

1995

Architecture

Francis D. K. Ching

1996 ★ 4.0

Ornamental drawing and architectural design

Robert Scott Burn

1857

Architectural principles in the age of humanism

Rudolf Wittkower

1962

What is design?

Paul Jacques Grillo

1960

Modulor 2, 1955

Le Corbusier

1958

Architectural Geometry

Axel Kilian, Andreas Asperl, Michael Hofer et al.

2007

Chambers for a memory palace

Donlyn Lyndon

1994

Lectures on architecture

Morris, Robert

1971

Design in the built environment

Ronald Fraser Reekie

1972

The power of limits

Gyèorgy Doczi

1994

What not to build

Sandra Edelman, Robby Reid, Judith Kay Gaman

2006

Inside architecture

Stephen Gardiner

1983

A discussion of composition, especially as applied to architecture

John Vredenburgh Van Pelt

1902

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