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As part of its collection [1] of more than 260,000 volumes, the library contains printed books from earlier times, archival and photographic collections, and personal fonds. This includes: Fondo L’Archivolto; [2] The L'Archivolto was a library and a space for cultural exchanges based on the common interest in architecture.
Avery Library's collection in architecture literature is among the largest in the world and includes such highlights as the first Western printed book on architecture, De re aedificatoria (1485), by Leone Battista Alberti; Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499); works by Giovanni Battista Piranesi; and classics of modernism by Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, with the rarest ...
The style used in The Timeless Way of Building is also unusual for an architectural text, at times resembling prose poetry or religious scripture. Indeed, some consider it not primarily an architectural work at all but "a book on philosophy with architectural examples." [1] Other books in the same series are: A Pattern Language (volume 2)
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Ad Quadratum: The Practical Application of Geometry in Medieval Architecture; AIA Guide to New York City; American Architects Directory; Ant Architecture: The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests; The Architect and His Office; Architects' Data; Architectural pattern book; Architecture and Modernity: A Critique; Architecture in Texas ...
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction is a 1977 book on architecture, urban design, and community livability.It was authored by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein of the Center for Environmental Structure of Berkeley, California, with writing credits also to Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel.
I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books of Architecture) is a treatise on architecture by the architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580), written in Italian. It was first published in four volumes in 1570 in Venice, illustrated with woodcuts after the author's own drawings. It has been reprinted and translated many times, often in single ...
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