Useful Skyscraper Book References

Recommended Purchase:

EISELE, J. & KLOFT, E. (eds) (2002). High Rise Manual: Typology & Design, Construction & Technology. Birkhauser. Germany. ISBN: 3764302747 - An excellent book, perhaps more useful for the technology, materiality and construction of high rise towers. Very thorough.

STRELITZ, Z. (ed) (2005). Tall Buildings: A strategic design guide. British Council for Offices & RIBA Publishing. UK. ISBN: 1859461689. - An excellent recent guide, focussed on tall buildings in the London context.

YEANG , K. (1996). The skyscraper bioclimatically considered; a design primer. Wiley-Academy. UK. ISBN: 0-471-97764-0 - An excellent book for both research and design – all aspects of high rise design, not just bioclimatic towers.

Others:

ABALOS, I. & HERREROS, J. (2003). Tower and Office from Modernist Theory to Contemporary Practice. A Buell Centre / Colombia Book of Architecture. MIT Press. Cambridge, Mass. USA. ISBN:0262011913

ABEL, C. (2003). Sky High. (Book and Accompanying Royal Academy Exhibition). Royal Academy Publications. London. ISBN: 1903973333.

BEAVER, R. (2007). The Architecture of Adrian Smith, SOM: Toward a Sustainable Future. Images Publishing, Australia. ISBN: 9781864701692

BENYUS, J.M. (2002) Biomimicry: innovation inspired by nature. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN: 9780060533229

BINDER, G. (ed.) (2001). Tall Buildings of Asia and Australia. Images Publishing. Victoria. ISBN:
1864700750.

BINDER, G. (Ed.) (2002). Sky High Living: Contemporary High-Rise Apartment and Mixed-Use Buildings. Images Publishing. Victoria. ISBN: 1864700947

BINDER, G. (ed.) (2006), 101 of the World’s Tallest Buildings, The Images Publishing Group, Australia. ISBN: 1864701730. In conjunction with the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).

BINDER, G. (ed.) (2006). Tall Buildings of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Images Publishing. Victoria. ISBN: 1876907819

BLASER, W. (1999) Art of engineering: Werner Sobek Ingenieur-Kunst. Birkhauser, Basel. ISBN:
3764360011

BLASER, W. (2004) Post Tower. Birkhauser, Basel. ISBN: 3764369906

BUCHANAN, P. (2005). Ten Shades of Green: Architecture and the Natural World. The Architectural League of New York. New York, NY. USA. ISBN:0393731898
CHEW, Y.L.M. (2006) Construction Technology for Tall Buildings. 2nd Edition. Singapore University Press & World Scientific, Singapore. ISBN: 9810243383. 1st edition, 2001.

COMPAGNO, A. (2002) Intelligent Glass Facades: Material, Practice, Design. Birkhauser, Basel. ISBN: 376436694X

CONDIT, C. (1952), The Rise of the Skyscraper: The genius of Chicago architecture from the great fire to Louis Sullivan. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

CONDIT, C. (1964). The Chicago school of architecture: a History of Commercial and Public building in the Chicago area, 1875-1925. University of Chicago Press. Chicago. (written in 1952). ISBN: 0226114554

CROSBIE, M.J. (2005) Curtain Walls: recent developments by Cesar Pelli & Associates. Birkhauser, Basel. ISBN: 9783764370831

DANIELS, K. (1997) The Technology of Ecological Building: Basic principles and Measures, Examples and Ideas. Birkhauser, Basel. ISBN: 3764354615

DANIELS, K. (2000) Low Tech, Light Tech, High Tech: Building in the information age. Birkhauser, Basel. ISBN: 3764363290

DOUGLAS, G.H. (1996). Skyscrapers: a social history of the very tall building in America. McFarland & Co. Jefferson. USA. ISBN: 078640082

FAIRWEATHER, V. (2004). Expressing Structure: The Technology of Large-scale Buildings. Birkhauser. Berlin. ISBN: 3764366664

GIRADET, H. (2004) Cities People Planet. Wiley-Academy, UK. ISBN: 0470852844

GISSEN, D. (2003). Big & Green: Towards Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century. Princeton
Architectural Press. New York. ISBN: 1568983611.

HART, F., HENN, W. & SONTAG, H. (1982) Multi-storey Buildings in Steel. Second Edition. Nichols
Publishing, New York. ISBN: 089397224

HAUSLADEN, G., DE SALDANHA, M., LIEDL, P., SAGER, C. (2005). Climate Design: Solutions for
Buildings that Can do More with Less Technology. Birkhäuser. Basel, Switzerland. ISBN-13: 978-
3764372446

HERZOG, T., KRIPPNER, R. & LANG, W. () Façade Construction Manual. Birkhauser, Munich. Edition Detail. ISBN: 3764371099

HUXTABLE, A.L. (1984). The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style. 1992 California Reprint. University of California Press Berkley. Los Angeles. ISBN: 0520080289.

LANDAU, S.B. & CONDIT C.W. (1996). Rise of the New York skyscraper, 1865 – 1913. Yale University Press. New Haven. ISBN: 0-300-06444-6.

MAU, B. (2004). Massive Change. Phaidon, UK. ISBN: 0714844012
MOUDRY, R. (ed.) (2005) The American Skyscraper: Cultural Histories. Cambridge University Press, New York. ISBN: 9780521624213

POWELL, K. (2006). 30 St. Mary Axe: A Tower for London. Merrell, London. ISBN: 1858943221

POWELL, R. (1999). Rethinking the Skyscraper: The Complete Architecture of Ken Yeang. Whitney Library of Design. New York. ISBN: 0823045536

RILEY, T. & NORDENSEN, G. (2003). Tall Buildings. Museum of Modern Art. New York. ISBN: 0870700952.

ROAF, S., CRICHTON, D. & NICOL, F. (2005). Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change; A 21st Century Survival Guide. Architectural Press Oxford. ISBN: 0750659114

SALIGA, P. (1990) The Sky’s the Limit: A Century of Chicago Skyscrapers. Rizzoli. New York. ISBN: 0847811794

SCHITTICH, C. (ed.) (2003) Solar Architecture, in Detail: Strategies, Visions, Concepts. Edition Detail. Birkhauser, Munich. ISBN: 3764307471

SCHITTICH, C. (ed.) (2004) High Density Housing, in Detail: Concepts, Planning, Construction. Edition Detail. Birkhauser, Munich. ISBN: 3764371137

SCHITTICH, C. (ed.) (2006) Building Skins, in Detail. Edition Detail (2nd Edition). Birkhauser, Munich. ISBN: 9783764376406.

SCHLEIER, M. (1986) The Skyscraper in American art: 1890-1931. Da Capo Press, New York. ISBN: 0306803852

SCHUELLER, W. (1986) High-Rise Building Structures. 2nd Edition. Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co., Florida. ISBN: 0898748356

SCHUELLER, W. (1990) The Vertical Building Structure. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York. ISBN:
0442239106

TARANATH, B. (1998). Steel, Concrete & Composite Design of Tall Buildings. 2nd Edition. McGraw Hill. New York. ISBN: 0070629145

TOY, M. (1995) Reaching for the Skies, AD Profile No. 116, Academy Group Ltd. London. ISBN: 1854902504.

TURKINGTON, R., VAN KEMPEN, R. & WASSENBERG, F. (eds.) (2004). High-rise housing in Europe: current trends and future prospects. Housing and Urban Policy Studies 28. DUP Science. Delft University Press. Netherlands. ISBN: 9040724830

WEAVING, A. (2004) High-Rise Living. Gibbs Smith, Salt Lake City. ISBN: 1586854100

WELLS, M. (2005). Skyscrapers: Structure and Design. Yale University Press, New Haven. ISBN:
0300106793

WILLIS, C. (1995). Form Follows Finance. New York. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN: 1568980701

YEANG, K. (2002). Reinventing the Skyscraper: A vertical theory of urban design. Wiley-Academy, London. ISBN: 0470843551

YEANG, K. (2006). Ecodesign: a manual for ecological design. Wiley-Academy, UK. ISBN: 9832726409