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By: Leng

Leng — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:39:18 +0000

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By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:40:42 +0000

My ‘Completely relevant but not necessarily architectural reading list’.

1. World Changing – World Changing: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century by Alex Steffen and Al Gore

2. Massive Change – Bruce Mau, Jennifer Leonard, Institute Without Boundaries

3. RE:CP – Cedric Price, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Patrick Keiller

4.Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart

5. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, Timothy Ferriss

6. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

Also pick up a subscription to WIRED Magazine and New Scientist.

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By: Leng

Leng — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:06:53 +0000

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By: Luke B

Luke B — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:51:58 +0000

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By: Gerard

Gerard — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:29:43 +0000

Hey, this is a good game, will follow up Rory’s posting also with a chronological set of 10 (maybe I will show my age here but . . )
Pattern Language – I agree with you, an oldie but a goodie
Towards a New Architecture (I agree with you there too)
Architecture and Disjunction/Event Cities 01 – a double up for Tschumi
Exquisite Corpse – Sorkin at his best (now this is what architectural critique should be)
Socrates Ancestor by Indra Kagis McEwen (amazing rumination on the link between philosophy and architecture)
The Architectural Uncanny – Vidler
Differences – Ignasi de Sola Morales (one of the great influences on our work)
Theoretical Anxieties – Rafael Moneo (I think every student should read this, a great architect critiquing 8 of his peers, its amazing stuff)
Spatial Intelligence – Leon van Schaik (I think this book is actually profoundly important for the profession)
Parallax View – Zizek (how could I not include it)

By: Rory

Rory — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:15:17 +0000

This is fun, here’s my Top 10 architecture books that influenced me as a student. Not game enough to rank them, but I think this is the order that I read them at least. – RH

Venturi – Complexity and contradiction, 1966
Koolhaas – Delirious New York, 1978
Robin Boyd – The Puzzle of Architecture, 1965 (Definitely an influence on Venturi)
Le Corbusier – Towards a New Architecture (agreed)
Koolhaas – SMLXL, 1995
John Thackara – In The Bubble: Designing in a Complex World, 2005
An Evolutionary Architecture – Frazer, 1995
Kieran and Timberlake – Refabricating Architecture, 2004
Michael Brawne – From Idea to Building, 1992
Bill Addis – 3000 years of Building, 2007

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