Books like Beyond Habitat by Moshe Safdie

Alain de Botton explores how the quality of our physical surroundings shapes happiness, combining philosophy, aesthetics, and psychology to ask what makes a building beautiful.

A comprehensive exhibition catalog that explores Swiss architect Mario Botta’s modern and post‑modern works, including church, museum, and domestic buildings, with designs, plans, and critical analysis.

This is a biography of Lord Foster, one of the world's foremost architects, written with his full co-operation.

"The texts were written by a single person (complemented by a report from an inhabitant); the photographs, reproduced in duotone, all come from the same lens using an approach repeated again and again. Both attempt to show the objective state of affairs of Mies van der Rohe's solitary buildings with carefully collected and organized materials. An inner confrontation over decades opened up access to Mies' oeuvre for Werner Blaser, and thus, to this publication."--BOOK JACKET. "The legacy of Mies van der Rohe's most fruitful intentions is thus visually assessed with in part unpublished picture material. Those with a more critical attitude will also be creatively confronted with the roots of good architecture through the intensity of the presentation, which will hopefully provide new stimulus."--BOOK JACKET.