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Literature

A selection of classic literature relating to architectural and building philosophy, history, and technology in some way. OK sometimes an obscure connection. But these books are interesting.

10 Books on Architecture, Vitruvius, tranlsation by Joseph Gwilt
The Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller, Frederich Schiller
The American Frugal Housewife, Lydia M. Child, 1832
The American Woman's Home, Catherine Beecher & Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1869
Architecture and Democracy, Claude Fayette Bragdon, 1918
Artificial Light, M. Luckiesh, 1920
Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau, 1849
Critique of Judgement, Immanual Kant, 1790
The Complete Home, Editor, Clara E. Laughlin, 1906
Commentary on Heidegger's "The Question Concerning Technology", Mahon O'Brien, 2004
Hopes and Fears for Art, William Morris, 1919
The House Fly and How to Suppress it, Howard & Bishopp, 1926
Manual of Gardening, L. H. Bailey, 1910
Navaho Houses, Cosmos Mindeleff, 1890
Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago, Hannah Trager
The Poetry of Architecture, John Ruskin, 1838
The Psychology of Beauty, Ethel D. Puffer, 1905
Selections from the Works of John Ruskin, Ed. by Chauncey Tinker, 1918
The Stones of Venice, John Ruskin, 1879
Walden: Or Life In The Woods, Henry David Thoreau, 1854