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...
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:
Check out our past Archinect Summer Reading lists below...
Architecture of Happiness. : Alain dr Botton
First read was more than 10 plus year ago; see how I feel this time.
Inhabiting Negative Space, Jenny Odell
Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures, Kevin Strait, and Kinshasha Holman Conwill
Visual Thinking, Temple Grandin
Herman Hertzberger - Lessons for architecture students.
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
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
Appreciate the recommendations so far, thanks everyone! Still taking more suggestions until the end of the week.
Joseph Rykwert, On Adam's House in Paradise
I suggested these books to the students for the summer but I am not sure if they’re interested.
I need to dig those out and look at them again. And keep them in the car!
The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man - David Von Drehle
"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.
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