📚 Architecture

Buildings as decisions: structure, light, city, climate and the politics of putting a roof over people.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject architecture in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. 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
	De architectura	Vitruvius Pollio	1486	236
	The Stones of Venice	John Ruskin	1851	144
	Le Corbusier	Le Corbusier	1938	72
	Frank Lloyd Wright	Frank Lloyd Wright	1900	52
	Vers une architecture	Le Corbusier	1923	45
	Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830	John N. Summerson	1950	42
	Mario Botta	Mario Botta	1979	36
	From Bauhaus to our house	Tom Wolfe	1700	34
	Italian Villas and Their Gardens	Edith Wharton	1904	34
	Indian architecture	Percy Brown	1940	31
	The Classical Language of Architecture	John N. Summerson	1707	28
	Zaha Hadid	Zaha Hadid	1989	26
	Urban design	Cliff Moughtin	2003	26
	The Image of the City	Kevin Lynch	1960	22
	The future of architecture	Frank Lloyd Wright	1953	21
	Analysing Architecture	Simon Unwin	1997	21
	Architecture	Clois E. Kicklighter	1976	19
	Architecture of the Old South	Mills Lane	1984	19
	Architectural principles in the age of humanism	Rudolf Wittkower	1949	18
	The Eyes of the Skin	Juhani Pallasmaa	1996	18
	An outline of European architecture	Nikolaus Pevsner	1945	16
	Cathedral	David Macaulay	1973	16
	Greek architecture	A. W. Lawrence	1957	15
	Architecture without architects	Bernard Rudofsky	1964	15
	Architectural graphic standards	Charles George Ramsey	1970	14
	Elements of Style, the	Stephen Calloway	1991	14
	The Architecture of Happiness	Alain De Botton	2006	14
	Space, time and architecture	Sigfried Giedion	1941	13
	Indian Architecture (Islamic Period)	Percy Brown	1954	13
	The Architecture of Michelangelo	James S. Ackerman	1961	13

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 28 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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