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What's on your 2023 summer reading list?

With the month of June nearly coming to a close, there are about 2-months of summer left. I've seen a handful of newly released books and summer reading lists in the last few weeks, but would love to hear from our Archinect community!

As the Archinect team prepares for its 2023 Summer Reading List, we ask our community to comment and share their favorite summer picks! It can be architecture and design-specific, but we're also open to non-fiction and fiction suggestions. 

A few categories I'm eager to hear responses to are:

  • must read book suggestions for students
  • exciting architecture journals or periodicals
  • books you wish you read when starting your own practice
  • books to keep you motivated as a designer/practitioner
  • etc.

Check out our past Archinect Summer Reading lists below...

 
Jun 26, 23 6:01 pm
pj_heavy

Architecture of Happiness. : Alain dr Botton


First read was more than 10 plus year ago; see how I feel this time.

Jun 26, 23 7:20 pm  · 
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Inhabiting Negative Space, Jenny Odell

Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures, Kevin Strait, and Kinshasha Holman Conwill

Visual Thinking, Temple Grandin





Jun 26, 23 9:07 pm  · 
3  ·  1
Kinsbergen

Herman Hertzberger - Lessons for architecture students. 

Jun 27, 23 7:22 pm  · 
1  ·  1
citizen

Tom Hubka, Houses without Names: Architectural Nomenclature and the Classification of America’s Common Houses

Matt Lasner, High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century

Sue Grafton, R is for Ricochet

Jun 27, 23 8:05 pm  · 
1  · 
b3tadine[sutures]

New York Review of Architecture is the only serious architecture print that should be read.


Any Ursula Le Guin novel, even on Audible they're awesome.


City Of Quartz by Mike Davis is brilliant, so is The Monster Enters.


Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti 

Jun 27, 23 9:17 pm  · 
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Appreciate the recommendations so far, thanks everyone! Still taking more suggestions until the end of the week. 

Jun 28, 23 1:22 pm  · 
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drums please, Fab?

Joseph Rykwert, On Adam's House in Paradise

Jun 28, 23 8:38 pm  · 
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I suggested these books to the students for the summer but I am not sure if they’re interested.


Jun 29, 23 11:26 am  · 
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citizen

I need to dig those out and look at them again. And keep them in the car!

Jun 30, 23 12:30 am  · 
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go do it

The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man - David Von Drehle

Jul 8, 23 4:58 pm  · 
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Bench

"At Home" by Bill Bryson is the only architecture-related one. I try to mostly read other topics outside of work, mainly adventure/travel journalism.

Jul 10, 23 9:06 am  · 
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