Books like Modern architecture

Modern architecture by Kenneth Frampton reads as academic, analytical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Space, time and architecture

Sigfried Giedion · 1941

Both explore modernism

65% genome match

Collage city

Colin Rowe · 1978

Both explore urban planning & architectural theory

79% genome match

Art since 1940

Jonathan David Fineberg · 1995

Both explore modernism & postmodernism

70% genome match

A testament

Frank Lloyd Wright · 1957

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

Escape from reason

Francis A. Schaeffer · 1968

Both explore modernism & postmodernism

68% genome match

The Age of Arthur

John Morris · 1973

Both explore historical analysis

66% genome match

The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Twentieth-Century Classics)

John Maynard Keynes · 1919

Both explore historical analysis

66% genome match

The predicament of culture

James Clifford · 1988

Both explore postmodernism

67% genome match

Paul Klee

Paul Klee · 1930

Both explore modernism

63% genome match

Modern man in search of a soul

Carl Gustav Jung · 1933

Both explore modernism

63% genome match

The city shaped

Spiro Kostof · 1991

Both explore urban planning

63% genome match

Against Interpretation

Susan Sontag · 1966

Both explore modernism

63% genome match