Architecture/Architectural Design: Books and Ebooks

On this page, you will find some sample books about architecture and design and also some subject links that lead you to lists of physical books and Ebooks about various topics. Many of the physical books are located in the Learning Resource Center in the Applied Technology Center (Edison Campus).

You can search for books (and articles) in the Library Catalog.

• Advanced Search (best option)
• Basic Search 

The Library Catalog is the gateway to discovering hundreds of architecture and design journals, Ebooks and physical books, and much more. Be sure to select the Material Type you want before searching. But what's great is that you can refine your search later!

Since the database has access to millions of items, the best way to search is using the Advanced Search option. This allows you to search specific fields for keywords, to select a material type to search (books or articles or images, etc.). A sample search is demonstrated below:

To search quickly for books about Roman architecture, you could tell the system to search subject headings for the the words roman and architecture with the Materials Type as books.

then for physical books:

and for Ebooks:

• Architecture (11,000 + books!)
  • Architecture - history
• Architecture/Urban & Land Use Planning
• Interior Architecture
• Interior Decoration
  • Color in Interior Decoration
• Interior Lighting - design
• Landscape Architecture
  • Landscape Architecture - history
• Lighting, Architectural and Decorative
• Space (Architecture)
• Sustainable Architecture
  • Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings
• Sustainable Development

Architecture

• Architecture and Resilience : Interdisciplinary Dialogues
• Principles of Modern Architecture
• Space Architecture: the New Frontier for Design Research
• Understanding architecture: its elements, history, and meaning

Architectural History

• Buildings across time : an introduction to world
• Global History of Architecture
• Sir Banister Fletcher's a History of Architecture (a true classic!)

Green and Sustainable Architecture

• Bio-based Building Skin - a very interesting book which covers the design and building of façades with biomaterials and also talks about climatic design.
• Eco Architecture VI: Harmonisation Between Architecture and Nature
• Design Professional's Guide to Zero Net Energy Buildings - an excellent introduction to sustainable building design, with many illustrations.
• Designing Processes : A Strategy for the Future of Construction
• Environmental Design: Architecture, Politics, and Science in Postwar America
• Green building and phase change materials : characteristics, energy implications and environmental impacts
• Green Vitruvius: Principles and Practice of Sustainable Architectural Design
• Landscape Architecture Theory: An Ecological Approach - a great book that mixes landscape and sustainable architecture with the bigger picture of urban planning.
• Sustainable Design: a Critical Guide - excellent overview of sustainable architecture with chapters of water and energy efficient design.

Interior Design

• Furniture for Interior Design
• Interior Design: Conceptual Basis
• Lighting for Interior Design
• Materials and interior design
• Spaces in architecture: areas, distances, dimensions

Landscape Architecture

• Construction for landscape architecture
• Handbook of soils for landscape architects
• Landscape Architecture: An Introduction
• Landscape architectural design and construction technology
• The Landscape lightning book

Listed below are Ebooks about AutoCAD and Other Software Packages

• AutoCAD 2022 Beginning and Intermediate
• AutoCAD 2022 3D Modeling
• Tutorials of Visual Graphic Communication Programs for Interior Design (includes AutoCAD and Revit; 2021)