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Architecture: Monographs

Barragan : The Complete Works , Luis Barragan, Antonio Toca Fernandez, Mariana Yampolsky
Turner Brooks: Work, Turner Brooks et al
Patkau Architects: Selected Projects 1983-1993, Brian Carter
Kalach & Alvarez. Teodoro González Leon, Aaron Betsky
Ricardo Legorreta, Architects , John V. Mutlow
Lake Flato Architects. Oscar Riera Ojeda
Rebecca L. Binder. Stanley Tigerman
Alberto Campo Baeza. Kenneth Frampton
Massimiliano Fuksas, James Wines

Architecture: buildings types

The Tropical Asian House, Robert Powell
Casa De Hacienda : Architecture in the Colombian. German Tellez, A. Castaneda
Fazendas : The Great Houses and Plantations of Brazil. Fernando Tasso Fragoso
Casas Lationamericanas / Latin American Houses, E. Browne, A. Petrina, H.Segawa et al.
Lacroze Miguens Prati (The Ten Houses Series). Oscar Riera Ojeda

Essay, theory and research

Towards a New Architecture , Le Corbusier
Space, Time and Architecture, Sigfried Giedion
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, Robert. Venturi, Vincent Scully
Body, Memory and Architecture . Kent C. Bloomer, Charles W. Moore
The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa, Colin Rowe
Water and Architecture. Charles W. Moore, Jane Lizd
Architecture : Choice or Fate. Leon Krier
Between Fences. Gregory K. Dreicer

History

The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design. N. Pevsner
Ten Books on Architecture , Vitruvius
The Ten Books of Architecture , Leon Batista Alberti
The Four Books on Architecture, Andrea Palladio
The American Vignola
L'Architecture , Claude Nicolas Ledoux
K.F. Schinkel, Collected Architectural Designs , Karl Frederick Schinkel

Landscape Architecture

The Poetics of Gardens, Charles Moore
Tropica : Color Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants and Trees from the Tropics and Subtropics, Alfred Byrd Graf
Design With Nature, Ian L. McHarg
Peter Walker Minimalist Gardens. Leah Levy
Martha Schwartz: Transfiguration of the Commonplace. Heidi Landecker

Regional

Cuba : 400 Years of Architectural Heritage, Rachel Carley, Andrea Brizzi
Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico. Edward R. Burian (Editor)
Mexico 90's: A Contemporary Architecture. Miquel Adria, H. Ricalde,R. Ingersoll
Havana : Portrait of a City. Juliet Barclay
Caribbean Style, Suzanne Slesin, S. Cliff, J. Berthelot, M. Gaumé, D. Rozensztroch

Urban

The life and death of the great American cities, Jane Jacobs
The Architecture of the City Aldo Rossi
American Vitruvius : An Architect's Handbook of Civic Art,Werner Hegemann, E. Peets
Collage City, Colin Rowe, Fred Koeter
The City in History : Its Origins, Its Tranformations, and Its Prospects , Lewis Mumford

The Periferia online bookstore
is operated in association with Amazon.com, the earth's biggest bookstore. By ordering books from this page, Amazon.com returns a portion of the proceeds to Periferia, helping us maintain this window on architecture and urban design in the Caribbean.

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	The Periferia online bookstore is operated in association with Amazon.com, the earth's biggest bookstore. By ordering books from this page, Amazon.com returns a portion of the proceeds to Periferia, helping us maintain this window on architecture and urban design in the Caribbean. How to buy: you can order any of the books featured in this page by clicking on the title or the cover. Those links, you will take you to Amazon.com's webpage for that book. On that page you can place your order through Amazon.com's secure system. Please remember that you must order the book from that page or Periferia will not receive a commission from Amazon.com. Also, if you don't see a title or a certain edition you are seeking in our pages, please let us know. We can probably add the book to our online store within a day.
	About Amazon.com: From The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and the Associated Press to PC Magazine and WebWeek, mainstream and industry press alike have helped to make the Amazon.com brand name one of the more well-known among Internet sites. Amazom.com provides excellent, secure, online ordering service and a wide range of shipping options to both U.S. and worldwide customers.