📚 Domes

The roof that spans by curvature: the Pantheon’s concrete, Brunelleschi’s double shell, and the imitators.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject domes in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Brunelleschi's dome	Ross King	2000	13
	Norddeutsche Backsteindome	Albert Renger-Patzsch	1930	6
	The dome	E. Baldwin Smith	1950	6
	Building Big	David Macaulay	2000	5
	On the construction of iron roofs	Francis Campin	1868	4
	Elementare Schalenstatik	Alf Pflüger	1957	4
	Filippo Brunelleschi	Howard Saalman	1980	4
	Architettura romana	Giovanni Teresio Rivoira	1921	3
	Design of domes	John Stanley Terrington	1937	3
	Dome cookbook	Steve Baer	1967	3
	Der Kuppelraum in der türkischen Architektur	Semra Ögel	1972	3
	Probleme des wölbungsbaues ...	Heinrich Glück	1921	2
	Decorations of the dome of the rotunda by John Singer Sargent	Thomas A. Fox	1922	2
	Le triomphe de la coupole dans l'architecture byzantine	Marguerite Rumpler	1947	2
	The analysis of braced domes	B. S. Benjamin	1963	2
	Dome cookbook	Steve Baer	1968	2
	Geodesics	Edward Popko	1968	2
	Wizard of the dome	Sidney Rosen	1969	2
	Dome Builders Handbook	J. Prenis	1973	2
	Opaion und Laterne	Christof Spuler	1973	2
	The dome builder's handbook	John Prenis	1973	2
	Home Sweet Dome	Wolfgang M. Ebert	1978	2
	One-piece dome fabrication study	Boeing Engineering and Construction Company	1979	2
	One-piece dome fabrication study	Boeing Engineering and Construction Company	1979	2
	How to design and build your dome home	Gene Hopster	1981	2
	The Dome Scrap Book	Geodesic Service Staff	1986	2
	Towers and domes	F. Escrig	1996	2
	Tensegrity	René Motro	2003	2
	Sinan	Vahit Okumuş	2006	2
	KugelbauVisionen	Susanne von Falkenhausen	2008	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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