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I highly recommend Witold Rybczynski and his book "How Architecture Works" as your starting block. It's very well-written and accessible without any ridiculous jargon that often gets thrown around a lot in the profession. In that book he exhaustively cites all his influences which are all excellent, I've read them all. Who else comes to mind is Steen Eiler Rasmussen. His book Experiencing Architecture is in the same sort of vein as Rybczynski. From there you can really go anywhere, and if you want to learn about a specific style then you ought to read the writings of whoever the paragon of that style was - for instance, for prairie-style and the organic architecture movement you could read On and By Frank Lloyd Wright which is a pretty big tome that'll teach you everything you need to know; or if you want to know about the genesis of modern project housing then Le Corbusier's works are for you; or for Gothic architecture and early architectural engineering methods you can read Notre Dame de Paris or even Ken Follett's pretty entertaining historical fiction Pillars of the Earth. I should mention that Vitruvius is an excellent resource as well although a bit more technical in regards to classical Beaux-Arts architecture.

About your novel fantasy architecture - I would encourage you to look at some of the architecture of resort cities all over the world as that was the effect they are/were trying to get their visitors to feel, as if they're walking into some otherworldly and heavenly cloud 9 somewhere. St. Augustine in Florida was really the first place to employ fantasy architecture of that kind in their hotels, specifically through the work of the very famous firm Carrere and Hastings when they were employed by Henry Flagler. There are a few resort towns in Germany like on Rugia Island which have a very similar effect. Over in Japan, you can find a lot of the architecture of some of the nicer ryokans/onsen resorts is similar, like Shima Onsen in Gunma Prefecture.

So tl;dr on fantasy stuff, you're best off looking in real life at different places and reading about what those architects wrote and look for their sources of inspiration (often classical literature!).

>completely novel forms of architecture that are used in fictional settings.
mortal engines by philip reeve
you sound like too much of a pseud to like it tho

If you want cool fictional architecture then you'd better check out mango since they have great stuff.
Pic related for example is from Blame! The guy went to architecture school before drawing it so there's loads of great stuff in it.

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Nice post, thanks!
>the genesis of modern project housing
I'd like to know more about this, specifically about post ww2 public housing buildings in communist countries (things that look like pic related), please.

estates by lynsey hanley is a pretty interesting read
it's about postwar britain which wasn't communist but public housing was a socialist experiment

Then like I said you can read Le Corbusier specifically Towards a New Architecture (1923) as this was literally the beginning. You can read about Unite d'habitation which was the first of these block-style apartments, though you'll quickly learn it was actually intended for wealthy people.

On the urban planning side of things, I suggest Jane Jacobs as something to wet your palette. She was pretty good at putting into plain terms why things are the way they are in our cities. You can also read The Power Broker which is a book about Robert Moses, the man who shaped modern New York City. Project housing emerged when engineer-minded planners alongside governmental bean counters took over.

Oh also you can read about the New Towns of Britain, see Some projects to look at are the town of Milton Keynes and projects like the Barbican.

Thank you both. I will try to find those books. Anything on them filthy reds though?

>it's inspired many people to create renditions of his urban environments
Do you have links to some of this work perhaps?

Here's one I could find quickly: archdaily.com/875409/three-principles-of-architecture-as-revealed-by-italo-calvinos-invisible-cities

Ruskin's The Stones of Venice

Lissitzky's (actually, a collective work from his group) movable podium for Vladimir Lenin.

Captcha has distracted me with buildings.

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What's this? It's very good, reminds me of De Chirico for some reason.

Do you think anyone would ever actually walk up those stairs, or would it become a gathering place for garbage that even the municipal sanitation workers are too lazy to clean up?

Maybe they can be escalators, one up and one down.

That's really good. Who did it?

That's too many stairs. I reckon some people would do it as a challenge and then post a picture of themselves at the top on Instagram or something. But nobody would actually take the stairs if they had business at the top.

>Asking this sort of question there would be like trying to talk Dosto with a Veeky Forums board primarily dedicated to erotic fan fiction
Not really. In fact I'm sure /ic/ and maybe even Veeky Forums could draw up better examples of similar artwork that you're looking for, since those boards actually care about art.

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Veeky Forums was supposed to include philosophy and art but that hasn't stopped anyone from posting it on Veeky Forums