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The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, her first major literary success.The novel's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an intransigent young architect who battles against conventional standards and refuses to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
Cabin Porn (book) Cambridge (book) Castle (Macaulay book) Castles and Fortresses of Western Ukraine. Cathedral (children's book) Cathedrals and Castles: Building in the Middle Ages. Circle: International Survey of Constructivist Art. A Classical Adventure: The Architectural History of Downing College, Cambridge.
Vitruvius ( / vɪˈtruːviəs / vi-TROO-vee-əs, Latin: [wɪˈtruːwi.ʊs]; c. 80 –70 BC – after c. 15 BC) was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work titled De architectura. [ 1] As the only treatise on architecture to survive from antiquity, it has been regarded since the Renaissance as ...
The Five Orders of Architecture. The Five Orders of Architecture ( Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura) is a book on classical architecture by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola from 1562, and is considered "one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written", [1] despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction. [2]
The Timeless Way of Building is a 1979 book by Christopher Alexander that proposes a new theory of architecture (and design in general) that relies on the understanding and configuration of design patterns. Although it came out later, it is essentially the introduction to A Pattern Language and The Oregon Experiment, providing the philosophical ...
De architectura ( On architecture, published as Ten Books on Architecture) is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect and military engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus, as a guide for building projects.
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