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• Architecture -- United States -- History

• The State of Scholarly Publishing in the History of Art and Architecture (2006), by Larry McGill (without front matter: multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Outline History of Architecture for Beginners and Students (New York: F. Stokes, 1893), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout the Ages (new edition; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; London: William Heinemann, 1917), by Salomon Reinach, trans. by Florence Simmonds (PDF at djm.cc)

• Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799 (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1994), by Friedrich Gilly, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Fritz Neumeyer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799 (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1994), by Friedrich Gilly, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Fritz Neumeyer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Otto Wagner: Reflections on the Raiment of Modernity (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1993), ed. by Harry Francis Mallgrave (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art (based on 1902-1914 editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1988), by Otto Wagner, ed. by Harry Francis Mallgrave (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Designing Paris: The Architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc, and Vaudoyer (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1987), by David Van Zanten (PDF files at MIT)

• City Building on the Eastern Frontier: Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), by Diane Shaw (multiple formats at Project MUSE)

• Passages: Explorations of the Contemporary City (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2004), by Graham Livesey (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Brokers of Modernity: East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910-1950 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2019), by Martin Kohlrausch (HTML at Project MUSE)

• Brokers of Modernity: East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910-1950 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2019), by Martin Kohlrausch (HTML at Project MUSE)

• Otto Wagner: Reflections on the Raiment of Modernity (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1993), ed. by Harry Francis Mallgrave (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art (based on 1902-1914 editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1988), by Otto Wagner, ed. by Harry Francis Mallgrave (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition: A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful of the Architectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, by Maud Wotring Raymond and John Hamlin, ed. by Paul Elder, contrib. by Louis Christian Mullgardt
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• The architecture and landscape gardening of the exposition, a pictorial survey of the most beautiful of the architectural compositions of the Panama-Pacific international exposition; (first edition; San Francisco: P. Elder and Co., 1915), ed. by Paul Elder, contrib. by Louis Christian Mullgardt, Maud Wotring Raymond, and John Hamlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition: A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful of the Architectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (second edition, revised; San Francisco: P. Elder and Co., c1915), by Maud Wotring Raymond and John Hamlin, ed. by Paul Elder, contrib. by Louis Christian Mullgardt (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)

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

• Mission 66 Visitor Centers: The History of a Building Type (2000), by Sarah Allaback (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• The Education of the Architect: Historiography, Urbanism, and the Growth of Architectural Knowledge (c1997), ed. by Martha D. Pollak (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Style-Architecture and Building-Art: Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth Century and Its Present Condition (based on first and second editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1994), by Hermann Muthesius, ed. by Stanford Anderson (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art (based on 1902-1914 editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1988), by Otto Wagner, ed. by Harry Francis Mallgrave (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by William Craft Brumfield (HTML at UC Press)

• The Education of the Architect: Historiography, Urbanism, and the Growth of Architectural Knowledge (c1997), ed. by Martha D. Pollak (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art (based on 1902-1914 editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1988), by Otto Wagner, ed. by Harry Francis Mallgrave (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas: Essays on the History of Ideas (2015), by Ingrid Böck (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• The Open Hand: Essays on Le Corbusier (1982), ed. by Russell Walden (PDF files at MIT)
• 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)
• An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism (2008), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Architecture Beyond Architecture (1995), ed. by Cynthia C. Davidson and Ismail Serageldin (PDF at archnet.org)
• Architecture for Islamic Societies Today (1994), ed. by James Steele (PDF at archnet.org)
• Faith and the Built Environment: Architecture and Behavior in Islamic Cultures, ed. by Suha Ozkan (PDF files at archnet.org (scroll down inset to "Associated documents" for chapter links and downloads))

• Mimarlık (partial serial archives)

• An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism (2008), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Sotsgorod: The Problem of Building Socialist Cities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1975), by N. A. Mili︠u︡tin, ed. by George R. Collins and William Alex, trans. by Arthur R. Sprague, contrib. by Tanya Page (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)

• Transcultural Modernisms (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v12; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2013), ed. by Fahim Amir, Eva Egermann, Moira Hille, Jakob Krameritsch, Christian Kravagna, Christina Linortner, Marion von Osten, and Peter Spillmann (PDF with commentary in Austria)

• Brokers of Modernity: East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910-1950 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2019), by Martin Kohlrausch (HTML at Project MUSE)

• Brokers of Modernity: East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910-1950 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2019), by Martin Kohlrausch (HTML at Project MUSE)

• Transcultural Modernisms (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v12; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2013), ed. by Fahim Amir, Eva Egermann, Moira Hille, Jakob Krameritsch, Christian Kravagna, Christina Linortner, Marion von Osten, and Peter Spillmann (PDF with commentary in Austria)

• Transcultural Modernisms (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v12; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2013), ed. by Fahim Amir, Eva Egermann, Moira Hille, Jakob Krameritsch, Christian Kravagna, Christina Linortner, Marion von Osten, and Peter Spillmann (PDF with commentary in Austria)

• Transcultural Modernisms (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v12; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2013), ed. by Fahim Amir, Eva Egermann, Moira Hille, Jakob Krameritsch, Christian Kravagna, Christina Linortner, Marion von Osten, and Peter Spillmann (PDF with commentary in Austria)

• Mission 66 Visitor Centers: The History of a Building Type (2000), by Sarah Allaback (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Living Spaces (New York: Whitney Publications, 1952), ed. by George Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism (2008), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Technics and Architecture: The Development of Materials and Systems for Building (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1992), by Cecil D. Elliott (PDF files at MIT)

• Evolution of Aircraft Carriers, ed. by Scot MacDonald (PDF files at navy.mil)

• U-Boats and T-Boats, 1914-1918 (Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Service, U.S. General Services Administration, 1984), by United States National Archives and Records Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• Architecture in the Scandinavian Countries (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1991), by Marian C. Donnelly (PDF files at MIT)

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