Architecture
Manuscrits de Fourier – Charles Fourier
Charles Fourier
Fourier's posthumous working papers reveal a mind grappling with passionate attraction and the laws of social harmony.
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Architecture explores building design, spatial theory, and structural innovation.
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Dialogue (Dialogo di Messer Leon Battista Alberti) – Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is Galileo Galilei's sustained defence of the Copernican arrangement of the…
Architecture
Ecatonfilea – Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti
Alberti describes how observing ancient Roman ruins inspired principles of beauty in architecture, leading to a dialogue on…
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On the Art of Building (De re aedificatoria) – Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti's De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building) is a comprehensive architectural treatise composed in…
Architecture
In the Tuileries Garden – Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller uses the Tuileries Garden as a model for understanding order and chaos, design and spontaneity.
Architecture
4D – Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller
4D is a work published in 1972 that addresses questions of domestic architecture.
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Universal Architecture – Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller
The work synthesizes Fuller's decades of thinking about architecture not as a localized, aesthetic practice but as a…
Architecture
Better Homes for Lower Incomes – Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller
Fuller argues that lower-income housing fails not from lack of materials but from a shortage of design intelligence,…
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50 Years of the Design Science Revolution and the World Game – Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller
Published in 1969, 50 Years of the Design Science Revolution and the World Game is a work by…
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Ideas and Integrities – Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller
"Ideas and Integrities" is a substantial autobiographical work published in 1963 that serves as R.
Architecture
The Arcades Project (Passagen-Werk) – Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin
The Arcades Project is an unfinished work by German philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin, written between 1927…
19th Century
Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli near Naples – Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage
The core of the work was originally read at the Geological Society of London on March 12, 1834,…
Architecture
Mornings in Florence – John Ruskin
John Ruskin
The book is structured as a series of 'mornings,' each devoted to a specific location or set of…
19th Century
St. Mark’s Rest – John Ruskin
John Ruskin
St. Mark's Rest is a work by John Ruskin devoted to the history, art, and architecture of Venice.
19th Century
The Stones of Venice – John Ruskin
John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice is a comprehensive architectural and cultural study of the city of Venice, written by…