The most-mentioned books on r/architecture

May 8, 2024

Reddit is a social media and news aggregation website that ranks content based on a voting system. People worldwide post content (usually links, but also original content), and other users can “upvote” or “downvote” posts, pushing the most interesting content to the top.

It’s a place where you can find groups of like-minded people. Reddit calls these groups subreddits, and they cover different topics, including niche interests, politics, hobbies, and thousands of other topics people want to talk about.

Since its launch in 2005, the site has become one of the most popular social media sites with millions of monthly active users.

We've processed billions of comments to find the books most mentioned on Reddit.

Table of Contents

The most-mentioned books on r/architecture
Our methodology
Who are we

The most-mentioned books on r/architecture

101 Things I Learned in Architecture School	41 users
Building Construction Illustrated	39 users
Architecture	38 users
A Field Guide to American Houses	19 users
A Pattern Language	18 users
Architectural Graphics	17 users
Modern Architecture	11 users
Yes Is More	11 users
Architect? A Candid Guide to the Profession	10 users
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture	9 users
S M L XL	9 users
Experiencing Architecture	8 users
Towards a New Architecture	8 users
Fundamentals of Building Construction	8 users
Get Your House Right	8 users
Delirious New York	8 users
Graphic Anatomy	8 users
A World History of Architecture	6 users
The Architecture of Happiness	6 users
Why Buildings Stand Up	6 users
Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings	6 users
Design Drawing	6 users
The Architect's Studio Companion	6 users
Building Codes Illustrated	6 users
Sun, wind and light	6 users
Modern Architecture Since 1900	6 users
learning from las vegas	5 users
A Global History Of Architecture	5 users
Architecture, form, space and order	5 users
Architectural Graphic Standards	5 users
The Poetics of Space	5 users
Metric Handbook	5 users
Constructing Architecture	5 users
The Function of Ornament	5 users
Buildings Across Time	4 users
Home	4 users
How Buildings Learn	4 users
The Timeless Way of Building	4 users
Architect?	4 users
Programs and manifestoes on 20th-century architecture	4 users
Thermal delight in architecture	4 users
Analysing Architecture	4 users
Visual Dictionary of Architecture	4 users
Color Drawing	4 users
Vitruvius	4 users
The Death and Life of Great American Cities	4 users
Understanding Architecture	4 users
The City Shaped	4 users
Architecture Without Architects	4 users
Heating, Cooling, Lighting	4 users
Architectural graphic standards	4 users
Neufert Architects' Data	4 users
Manual of section	4 users
Thinking Architecture	4 users
Invisible Cities	3 users
Studies in Tectonic Culture	3 users
Chambers for A Memory Palace	3 users
The Four Books on Architecture	3 users
A Place of My Own	3 users
Why Buildings Fall Down	3 users
Key Houses of the Twentieth Century	3 users
Castle	3 users
The architect's handbook of professional practice	3 users
Design Drawing	3 users
Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings	3 users
Vitruvius	3 users
The Phaidon atlas of 21st century world architecture	3 users
Sir Banister Fletcher's a history of architecture	3 users
Suburban Nation	3 users
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture	3 users
Ruins of Ancient Rome	3 users
In Praise of Shadows	3 users
Soviet Bus Stops	3 users
Introduction to architecture	3 users
Architectural detailing	3 users
The Eyes of the Skin	3 users
How to Build a Cathedral	3 users
The Story of Architecture	3 users
Atlas of Novel Tectonics	3 users
Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis	3 users
Cities for People	3 users
Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture	3 users
Folding Techniques for Designers	3 users
A History of Western Architecture	3 users
Design Like You Give A Damn	3 users
Frederic Chaubin	3 users
Mies Van Der Rohe	3 users
Herman Hertzberger Lessons for Students in Architecture	3 users

Our methodology

Book mentions are found by checking every reddit comment for links to Amazon, Goodreads, Google Books, and O'Rielly Media. Non-link mentions are too tricky to parse in an unbiased way: books with short, simple titles like The Road get massively under- or over-counted.

When a user mentions the same book multiple times in the same subreddit, we only count the top-voted comment. This curbs users shilling a particular book, and gives a more representative feel for an entire subreddit.

Who are we

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