Top 10 Architecture Books of 2010

Norman Weinstein of The Architectural Record selects his favorite architecture books of the year, which range from a coming-of-age memoir to a treatise on Turkish art and architecture.

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December 4, 2010, 11:00 AM PST

By Tim Halbur

Weinstein's list is in semi-alphabetical order, with no particular book ranking more highly than the others. His taste runs to the unusual, such as with this book:

"Jane Alison, editor, The Surreal House (Yale University Press, $70). Archigram's merry pranksters gave legs to future British cities, but back in Paris between the wars, the surrealists gave urban housing erotic breasts, vertiginous stairways to nowhere, and fireplaces serving as toy train stations. Framed by a variety of informative (but unfortunately humorless) scholarly essays that offer a single epiphany – the deepest gift surrealism gave to modern architecture was the rebirth of the Gothic – the hundreds of color illustrations offer a remarkably discerning catalogue of bizarre architectural dreams that could ricochet into whimsically engaging follies for our time."

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