Left: Aldo Rossi, L'archittetura della città. Right: Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

It is not easy for me to answer the question of what have been the twenty-five most important architectural books of the last twenty-five years - the twenty-five years since the publication, in 1966, of the first original editions of Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture and Aldo Rossi's L'architettura della città. For the question does not take into account such things as: important books, for whom, books I defend or books I disagree with, books written by friends I want to promote?...[+]