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• Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
• Asplund, Erik Gunnar, 1885-1940
• Correa, Charles, 1930-2015
• Fathy, Hassan
• Le Corbusier, 1887-1965
• Raphael, 1483-1520
• Russell, Walter, 1871-1963
• Safdie, Moshe, 1938-
• Semper, Gottfried, 1803-1879
• Stein, Clarence S.
• Steiner, Rudolf, 1861-1925
• Sullivan, Louis H., 1856-1924
• Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574
• Vignelli, Massimo
• Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

• Beyond Habitat (c1970), by Moshe Safdie (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Gottfried Semper: In Search of Architecture (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1984), by Wolfgang Herrmann (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• History of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 1913-1998: An Architectural Heritage (c1998), by C. David Jackson and Charlotte Vestal Brown (PDF at ncmodernist.org)

• Frank Lloyd Wright Versus America: The 1930s (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1990), by Donald Leslie Johnson (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Behind the Postmodern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Magali Sarfatti Larson (HTML at UC Press)

• John C. Parkin, Archives, and Photography: Reflections on the Practice and Presentation of Modern Architecture (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by Linda M. Fraser, Michael McMordie, and Geoffrey Simmins (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Beyond Habitat (c1970), by Moshe Safdie (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• The Brass Bottle: A Farcical Fantastic Play, in Four Acts (London: W. Heinemann, 1911), by F. Anstey
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Master Builder, by Henrik Ibsen, trans. by Edmund Gosse and William Archer (Gutenberg text)

• Three Unusual Scientists: John Keely, Nikola Tesla, Walter Russell: Three One-Act Plays, by Martha Keltz (PDF, text, Word, and RTF at studioeditions.com)

• The Enemy (New York: Hearst's International Library Co., c1915), by George Randolph Chester and Lillian Chester, illust. by A. B. Wenzell
  • multiple format at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Une Visite à la Chapelle des Médicis: Dialogue sur Michel-Ange et Raphael (in French; Paris: Sandoz et Fischbacher, 1872), by Émile Ollivier
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Gottfried Semper: In Search of Architecture (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1984), by Wolfgang Herrmann (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Chicago Architect (partial serial archives)

• Building Green: Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2018), by Anne Rademacher (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Why Architects Draw (with new preface; originally c1994), by Edward Robbins (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Precarious Claims: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Shannon Gleeson
  • multiple formats with commentary at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Texas Architect (partial serial archives)

• Early Architects and Builders of Indiana (Indiana Historical Society Publications, v11 #3; Indianapolis: Indianapolis Historical Society, 1935), by Lee Burns (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Frank Lloyd Wright Versus America: The 1930s (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1990), by Donald Leslie Johnson (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• The Lighting of a Great Museum (Hackensack, NJ: American Lighting Corp., c1960), by I. D. Robbins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sixty Years of Living Architecture: The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1953), by Frank Lloyd Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Usonian House: Souvenir of the Exhibition "60 Years of Living Architecture: The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright" (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1953), by Frank Lloyd Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Thomas Andrews Shipbuilder (1912), by Shan F. Bullock, contrib. by Horace Curzon Plunkett (HTML at libraryireland.com)

• Thomas Andrews Shipbuilder (1912), by Shan F. Bullock, contrib. by Horace Curzon Plunkett (HTML at libraryireland.com)

• On Leon Battista Alberti: His Literary and Aesthetic Theories (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1990), by Mark Jarzombek (PDF files at MIT)

• On the Rationalization of Sight; With an Examination of Three Renaissance Texts on Perspective (papers #8; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1938), by William Mills Ivins (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Architecture of Erik Gunnar Asplund (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1980), by Stuart Wrede (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Charles Correa, ed. by Hasan-Uddin Khan (PDF at archnet.org)

• Charles Correa, ed. by Hasan-Uddin Khan (PDF at archnet.org)

• The Hassan Fathy Collection: A Catalogue of Visual Documents at the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (1989), by James Steele (PDF with commentary at archnet.org)

• The Open Hand: Essays on Le Corbusier (1982), ed. by Russell Walden (PDF files at MIT)

• Le Corbusier, the Noble Savage: Toward an Archaeology of Modernism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2000), by Adolf Max Vogt (PDF files with commentary at MIT)

• Raphael and the Portrait of Andrea Turini (London: D. Nutt, 1910), by Tom Virzì (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Raphael of Urbino and His Father Giovanni Santi (London and New York: Macmillan, 1872), by Johann David Passavant
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text)
• Discorsi d'Arte di Maria Alinda Brunamonti, Nata Bonacci (in Italian; Città di Castello: S. Lapi, 1898), by Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Child of Urbino; and Moufflou (Boston: D. Estes and Co., 1900), by Ouida, illust. by Etheldred B. Barry
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Designing Modern America: The Regional Planning Association of America and its Members (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1996), by Edward K. Spann (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• The Story of My Life, by Rudolf Steiner, ed. by Harry Collison, contrib. by Marie Steiner (HTML at elib.com)

• Architecture and Democracy (1918), by Claude Fayette Bragdon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• Der Literarische Nachlass Giorgio Vasaris (only US-public-domain volume; letters (1532-1563) in Italian and commentary in German; Munich: G. Müller, 1923), by Giorgio Vasari, ed. by Karl Frey
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Vignelli Canon (ca. 2008), by Massimo Vignelli (PDF at vignelli.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Linguistics, Language, and the Professions: Education, Journalism, Law, Medicine, and Technology (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2000; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2002), ed. by James E. Alatis, Heidi Ehernberger Hamilton, and Ai-Hui Tan (PDF at Georgetown)

• Reading Peer Review: PLOS ONE and Institutional Change in Academia (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2021), by Martin Paul Eve, Cameron Neylon, Daniel Paul O'Donnell, Samuel A. Moore, Robert Gadie, Victoria Odeniyi, and Shahina Parvin (PDF with commentary in the UK)

• Biographical Memoirs (full serial archives)
• An Economic Analysis of the Market for Scientists and Engineers (c1958), by Armen A. Alchian, Kenneth J. Arrow, and William M. Capron (PDF with commentary at rand.org)
• Security, Loyalty, and Science (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, c1950), by Walter Gellhorn (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Scientists Who Changed the World (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1960), by Lynn Poole and Gray Johnson Poole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Savants et Écrivains (in French; Paris: E. Flammarion, ca. 1910), by Henri Poincaré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to the History of Science (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #376, 3 volumes in 5; c1927-1948), by George Sarton
  • Volume 1: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volumes 2-3 (in 4 parts): page images at HathiTrust

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