📚 Architectural Design

Books with architectural design on their catalogue record, first published between 1963 and 2015, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject architectural design in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 6,289 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Analysing Architecture	Simon Unwin	1997	21
	How designers think	Bryan Lawson	1980	17
	The architect's studio companion	Allen, Edward	1989	16
	Steven Holl	Steven Holl	1993	16
	Architectural graphic standards	Charles George Ramsey	1970	14
	Precedents in architecture	Roger H. Clark	1985	13
	Design Drawing	Francis D. K. Ching	1997	11
	Structural design	James R. Underwood	1998	11
	Structure and Architecture	Angus J. Macdonald	2007	11
	Structure in architecture	Mario George Salvadori	1963	10
	Vacationscape	Clare A. Gunn	1972	10
	The nature and aesthetics of design	David Pye	1978	9
	Inquiry by design	John Zeisel	1980	8
	Sun, wind & light	G. Z. Brown	1985	8
	Interpretation in Architecture	Richard Coyne	2005	8
	Architecture	Donald E. Hepler	1965	7
	Design in architecture	Geoffrey Broadbent	1973	7
	Intelligent Structures	K. P. Chong	1990	7
	Art of Building in the Classical World	John R. Senseney	2011	7
	Structural design in architecture	Mario George Salvadori	1967	6
	Architecture	Francis D. K. Ching	1979	6
	The necessity of artifice	Joseph Rykwert	1982	6
	A philosophy of interior design	Stanley Abercrombie	1990	6
	Lessons for students in architecture	Herman Hertzberger	1991	6
	Occupying Architecture	Jonathan Hill	1998	6
	Death of Drawing	David Ross Scheer	2014	6
	Architizer	Architizer	2015	6
	Architecture	William Perkins Spence	1967	5
	Towards a non-oppressive environment	Alexander Tzonis	1972	5
	Graphic thinking for architects and designers	Paul Laseau	1979	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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