| Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes: A penal history of Singapore’s plural society A Pieris University of Hawaii Press, 2009 | 93 | 2009 |
| Indigenous place-making in the city: Dispossessions, occupations and implications for cultural architecture J McGaw, A Pieris, E Potter Architectural Theory Review 16 (3), 296-311, 2011 | 64 | 2011 |
| Architecture and nationalism in Sri Lanka: The trouser under the cloth A Pieris Routledge, 2012 | 42 | 2012 |
| Assembling the centre: Architecture for indigenous cultures: Australia and beyond J McGaw, A Pieris Routledge, 2014 | 40 | 2014 |
| Southern invasions: post-war tourism in Sri Lanka A Pieris Postcolonial studies 17 (3), 266-285, 2014 | 36 | 2014 |
| Imagining Modernity: The Architecture of Valentine Gunasekara A Pieris Stamford Lake, 2007 | 33 | 2007 |
| Occupying the centre: Indigenous presence in the Australian capital city A Pieris Postcolonial Studies 15 (2), 221-248, 2012 | 28 | 2012 |
| Indigenous place: Contemporary buildings, landmarks and places of significance in south east Australia and beyond A Pieris, N Tootell, F Johnson, J McGaw, R Berg Melbourne School of Design, Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning …, 2014 | 25 | 2014 |
| New directions in tropical Asian architecture P Goad, A Pieris, P Bingham-Hall, A Achmadi (No Title), 2005 | 23 | 2005 |
| ‘Tropical’cosmopolitanism? The untoward legacy of the American style in postindependence Ceylon/Sri Lanka A Pieris Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 32 (3), 332-349, 2011 | 18 | 2011 |
| The Architecture of Confinement A Pieris, L Horiuchi Cambridge University Press, 2022 | 13 | 2022 |
| Indigenous cultural centers and museums: An illustrated international survey A Pieris Rowman & Littlefield, 2016 | 12 | 2016 |
| The Trouser under the cloth: personal space in colonial-modern Ceylon A Pieris Colonial Modernities, 209-228, 2007 | 12 | 2007 |
| The “Other” Side of Labor Reform: Accounts of Incarceration and Resistance in the Straits Settlements Penal System, 1825–1873 A Pieris Journal of social history 45 (2), 453-479, 2011 | 11 | 2011 |
| Avian Geographies: An inquiry into nationalist consciousness in medieval Lanka A Pieris South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 33 (3), 336-362, 2010 | 11 | 2010 |
| South and Southeast Asia: the postcolonial legacy A Pieris Fabrications 19 (2), 6-33, 2010 | 10 | 2010 |
| Sovereignty, space and civil war in Sri Lanka: porous nation A Pieris Routledge, 2018 | 9 | 2018 |
| Post‐tropical/post‐tsunami: Climate and architectural discourse in South and Southeast Asia L Chee‐Kien, A Pieris Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 32 (3), 365-381, 2011 | 9 | 2011 |
| Modernism at the Margins of the Vernacular: Considering Valentine Gunasekara. A Pieris Grey Room 28, 2007 | 8 | 2007 |
| The Search for Tropical Identities: A Critical History A Pieris New Directions in Tropical Asian Architecture. Sydney: Pesaro Publishing, 22-33, 2005 | 8 | 2005 |