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1.		The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses from John Wiley & Sons Price: £14.39 Customer Review: A truly inspiring book that I will no doubt refer to in my teaching and continue to learn from for years to come.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		Ando: Modern Minimalism with a Japanese Touch (Basic Architecture Series) from Taschen GmbH Price: £4.79 Customer Review: The slim volume of less than one hundred pages and small format is in a way in harmony with the minimalist aesthetics of the charismatic architect. The book is a distillate of beauty. The exquisite colour photographs display the magic of the spare aesthetics, elegance and strength of Ando's... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		Modern Architecture: A Critical History (World of Art) from Thames & Hudson Ltd Price: £5.47 Customer Review: Syllabus reading: this book is a brick of words. It is excellent in terms of delivering a very intensive and conscise history of modern architecture; and provides a great interlocking understanding of many important modern buildings. If I had a single criticism about it, it would be that the words... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter from Shelter Publications Inc.,U.S. Price: £11.49 Customer Review: This is a luxurious book that will keep drawing you back to it time and time again. Filled with photos and illustrations along with fascinating stories, it details the background to several 'shelters' across the world ranging from driftwood shacks to really large structures. The key thing is that... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		Thinking Architecture from Birkhauser Verlag AG Price: £24.90	Click here for more information

6.		How to Be a Happy Architect from Black Dog Publishing Price: £22.49	Click here for more information

7.		Treehouses of the World from Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Price: £16.07 Customer Review: this is a beautiful coffee table book, great pix and short informative text, it's very inspirational visually. I recomend it to anyone who is looking to design a treehouse, although it is not a builders manual it does have some tips.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		Atmospheres: Architectural Environments - Surrounding Objects from Birkhauser Verlag AG Price: £23.66	Click here for more information

9.		Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan from Monacelli Press,U.S. Price: £18.99 Customer Review: Rem Koolhas is surely one of the funniest architectural commentators alive and this highly readable book does a great job of explaining (a) Manhattan for us. Skipping across a series of repressions (high culture lambasts the glee of fantastic technology on coney island only to adopt and raze its... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) from OUP USA Price: £37.04 Customer Review: This book is not about architecture. It is manual for the unimaginative. Whilst Alexander's observations are pertinent and accurate, they cannot make up for the actual act of creation, which requires more thought. Maybe his other books provide what is missing in this. It is romantic design... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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