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Reading List

Suggested by the Board of Directors of the Texas Chapter:

Books by our recent lecturer, Jeremy Musson:
    Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant
    How to Read a Country House
    The Country Houses of Sir John Vanbrugh: From the Archives of Country Life


Antiquity: From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire
Norman F. Cantor

Architecture of the Absurd: How ‘Genius’ Disfigured a Practical Art
John Silber

The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste
Geoffrey Scott, Paul Barolsky, and Henry Hope Reed

Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
Ross King

Classicism is Not a Style
A. Papadakes and Demetri Porphyrios

The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson

The Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism, and Historic Preservation
Steven W. Semes

Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid
Marianne Cusato, Ben Pentreath, Richard Sammons, Leon Krier, and H.R.H. The Prince of Wales

The New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning
Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Henry Hope Reed

The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity
Pierre de la Ruffiniere du Prey