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Architecture & Design

Books by D K Ching

Architecture: Form, Space, and Order
A Global History of Architecture
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture book for History
Introduction to Architecture
Building Construction Illustrated
Design Drawing
Interior Design Illustrated
Green Building Illustrated

GK Hiraskar- History of Architecture
History of Architecture: Vedula Murthy
Otto Konnisberger - tropical climate and house design

Building Materials, Construction & Management

Construction: Barry

B.C.Punmia - Building construction

Estimation and Costing: Rangwala

CSIR- CBRI TIPS FOR GOOD CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES IN BUILDINGS

Building & Structures

R.S. Khurmi - Theory of structures & Strength of materials
Principles of STRUCTURAL DESIGN Wood, Steel, and Concrete RAM S. GUPTA
Reinforced Concrete Design Theory and Examples T.J.MACGINLEY

Environmental Planning & Design

Sustainable Buildings: Griha Manual

A Handbook on Landscape CPWD

National Rating System for Green Buildings

COMMON TREES Dr. H. Santapau

COMMON TREES OF INDIA PIPPA MUKHERJEE

FLOWERING TREES & SHRUBS IN INDIA by D.V. Cowen

Architecture in a Climate of Change A guide to sustainable design Peter F. Smith

Basics of Environmental Science Michael Allaby

Urban Design

Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design
Urban Studies and sprawl (concepts, elements & issues)

Urban Planning & Housing

Theory and concept of Urban Planning: G.K.Hiraskar
Town Planning: Rangwala

Planning Techniques & Management

Project Management: BC Punamia

Construction Management JumpStart

Fundamental of Survey S K Roy

Handbook of REGIONAL AND URBAN ECONOMICS

Urban economic theory Land use and city size MASAHISA FUJITA

PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION Garold D. Oberlender

Services, Infrastructure & Transportation

Water Supply & Sanitary Engg.: Rangwala
BUILDING SERVICES HANDBOOK Fred Hall and Roger Greeno
PLUMBING,ELECTRICITY,ACOUSTICS Sustainable Design Methods for Architecture Norbert Lechner
Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering Edited by CA O'Flaherty

URDPFI Guidelines Vol I & II
DESIGN MANUAL FOR A BARRIER- FREE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS for HEATING, VENTILATION & AIR-CONDITIONING (HVAC)
National Building Code Vol I & II

Books / Theory Architect

The Poetics of Space Gaston Bachelard
Bernini Howard Hibbard
Palladio James Ackerman, Phyllis Massar
The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs
Sightlines A Stadium Odyssey Simon Inglis
How To Read A Church Richard Taylor

The Architecture of Happiness Alain de Botton

The Art of Travel Alain de Botton
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work Alain de Botton

Brunelleschi's Dome The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence Ross King

God's Architect Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain Rosemary Hill

The Lamp of Memory John Ruskin
The Edifice Complex Deyan Sudjic
The Design Museum in a Box 100 Carefully Curated Postcards Deyan Sudjic

Eat, Drink, Nap Bringing the House Home Soho House
Happy City Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design Charles Montgomery
My Life in Houses Margaret Forster
The Age of Spectacle The Rise and Fall of Iconic Architecture Tom Dyckhoff
Ornament and Crime Adolf Loos

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein

The Architecture of the City Aldo Rossi
Athmospheres Peter Zumthor

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture / Robert Venturi
Conversations with Students (Architecture at Rice) / Louis Kahn
Experiencing Architecture / Eiler Rasmussen
The Eyes of the Skin / Juhani Pallasmaa
The Image of the City / Kevin Lynch
In Praise of Shadows / Junichiro Tanizaki
Learning from Las Vegas / Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour
Mutations / Rem Koolhaas, Stefano Boeri, Sanford Kwinter, Nadia Tazi, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Neufert Architects' Data / Ernst Neufert, Peter Neufert
The Seven Lamps of Architecture / John Ruskin
Superstudio: Life without objects / Peter Lang
Ten Canonical Buildings: 1950-2000/ Peter Eisenman
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age / Reyner Banham
Universal Principles of Design / William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler
The Works: Anatomy of the City / Kate Ascher
Yona Friedman: The Dilution Of Architecture / Yona Friedman
Architecture: Form, Space and Order / Francis D. K. Ching
Architectural Acoustics / David Egan
Detail in Contemporary Architecture Series / Virginia McLeod
Elemental: Incremental Housing and Participatory Design Manual / Alejandro Aravena
Thermal Delight in Architecture / Lisa Heschong
Archigram / Peter Cook
Cities for People / Jan Gehl
Design Like You Give a Damn / Architecture for Humanity
Freeing Architecture / Junya Ishigami
The Future Of Architecture / Frank Lloyd Wright
SMLXL / Rem Koolhaas
Thinking Architecture / Peter Zumthor
Uneasy Balance / Christopher Platt, Brian Carter
Yes is More / Bjarke Ingels
Invisible Cities / Italo Calvino
The Pillars of the Earth / Ken Follet
A World History of Architecture / Michael Fazio, Marian Moffett, Lawrence Wodehouse
Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning / Ernst J. Grube, James Dickie, Oleg Grabar, Eleanor Sims, Ronald Lewcock, Dalu Jones, Gut T. Petherbridge,, George Michell
Clip, Stamp, Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X to 197X / Beatriz Colomina
Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Fourth Edition) / Kenneth Frampton
Project Japan: Metabolism Talks / Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech / Todd Gannon
The Prisons / Le Carceri / Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Architecture As Space / Bruno Zevi
Architecture Depends / Jeremy Till
The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in Cinema / Juhani Pallasmaa
Are We Human? Notes On Archeology Of Design / Beatriz Colomina
The Art-Architecture Complex / Hal Foster
BLDGBLOG Book / Geoff Manaugh
Cities of Hope: Australian Architecture and Design by Edmond and Corrigan / Conrad Hamann
The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change / David Harvey
Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural Theory 1993-2009 / A. Krista Sykes
Content / Rem Koolhaas
Delirious New York: A retroactive manifesto for Manhattan / Rem Koolhaas
The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War / Robert Bevan
Domesticity at War / Beatriz Colomina
Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture / Rory Hyde
The Good Life: A Guided Visit to the Houses of Modernity / Iñaki Ábalos
The Language of Architecture / Andrea Simitch and Val Warke
The Manual of Section / Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and David J. Lewis
Oppositions Reader: Selected Essays 1973-1984 / Michael Hays
The Structure of the Ordinary: Form and Control in the Built Environment / N.J. Habraken
Toward an Other Globalization: From the Single Thought to Universal Conscience / Milton Santos
Why Architecture Matters / Paul Goldberger
Building Brasilia / Marcel Gautherot and Kenneth Frampton
Cities for a Small Planet / Richard Rogers
The City of Tomorrow: Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life / Carlo Ratti, Matthew Claudel
Cities Without Ground / Adam Frampton, Jonathan D. Solomon, Clara Wong
Collage City / Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter
Concise Townscape / Golden Cullen
The Death and Life of Great American Cities / Jane Jacobs
The Granite Garden: Urban Nature And Human Design / Anne W. Spirn
The History of the City / Leonardo Benevolo
Ladders / Albert Pope
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space / Jan Gehl
The New Science of Cities / Michael Batty
Triumph of the City / Edward Glaeser
The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the City / Reinhold Martin
Walkscapes: walking as an aesthetic practice / Francesco Careri
The 4-Hour Workweek / Tim Ferriss
The Barefoot Architect / Johan van Lengen
Constructing Architecture / Andrea Deplazes
Liquid Modernity / Zygmunt Bauman
Non Places / Marc Auge