7 best-selling design books like Manual of Section by Paul Lewis

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Manual of Section

By: Paul Lewis

4.50

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"It has been a while since I devoured a book on architecture with as much pleasure. I love a good s…

If you liked the design plot in Manual of Section by Paul Lewis , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Yes is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution

By: Bjarke Ingels Group

4.05

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

This thorough documentation of the work of trailblazing Danish firm BIG invites audiences into thei… read more

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  • architecture
  • nonfiction
  • design
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2. Thinking Architecture

By: Peter Zumthor

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

In order to design a building with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes… read more

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  • architecture
  • nonfiction
  • design
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3. Architecture: Form, Space, & Order

By: Francis D.K. Ching

4.33

Format: None pages,

Hand-lettered explanations demonstrate the principles of form, space, and order that underlie archi… read more

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  • architecture
  • nonfiction
  • design

4. Ways of Seeing

By: John Berger

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

John Berger's Classic Text on Art John Berger's Ways of Seeingis one of the most stimulating and th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • design

5. The Architecture of Happiness

By: Alain de Botton

3.57

Format: None pages,

One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our en… read more

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6. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

By: Matthew Frederick

3.89

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks… read more

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7. Children of Time

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a ne… read more

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8. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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9. Atlas of Novel Tectonics

By: None , None

3.57

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Architects Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto have been generating some of the most provocative thinki… read more

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10. The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses

By: Juhani Pallasmaa

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Since the book's first publication, interest in the role of the body and the senses has been emergi… read more

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11. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

By: Jared Diamond

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

'Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope . . . one of the most important and readable works … read more

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12. Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

By: Philipp Dettmer

4.59

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think ab… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Life hates nothing as much as wasting resources."

-Philipp Dettmer, Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

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13. The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

By: Roman Mars

4.03

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the cr… read more

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  • architecture
  • nonfiction
  • design
"A round of applause for circles."

-Roman Mars, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

"For better or worse, defensive designs limit the range of activities people can engage in. They can also create real problems for the elderly or disabled. Some of the goals of unpleasant designs can …"

-Roman Mars, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

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14. Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra-Thin: Architecture and Capitalism in the 21st Century

By: Matthew Soules

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"Soules's excellent book makes sense of the capitalist forces we all feel but cannot always name. I… read more

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  • architecture
  • nonfiction
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15. A Feeling of History

By: Peter Zumthor

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

While he was working to complete the Allmannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum in southern Norway in 2016, Swi… read more

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  • architecture
  • design
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16. Manual of Section

By: Paul Lewis

4.50

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"It has been a while since I devoured a book on architecture with as much pleasure. I love a good s… read more

Similar categories in Paul Lewis's Manual of Section book and Paul Lewis's Manual of Section

  • architecture
  • nonfiction
  • design

8 Best nonfiction books like Manual of Section by Paul Lewis

Transform Your Habits

Yes is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution

Bjarke Ingels Group

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Thinking Architecture

Peter Zumthor

4.75

Transform Your Habits

Architecture: Form, Space, & Order

Francis D.K. Ching

4.33

Ways of Seeing

John Berger

3.24

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14 must-read history books like Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra-Thin: Architecture and Capitalism in the 21st Century by Matthew Soules

Transform Your Habits

No Logo

Naomi Klein

3.89

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

3.42

Transform Your Habits

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

Legs McNeil , Gillian McCain

4.19

Transform Your Habits

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

4.17

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