Hi all - Anyone have suggestions for great summer reads? Preferably architecture related, but if you have a fiction or philosophy book that is a must, I'd be happy to hear about that as well.
I’m reading “The Aesthetics of Equity” by Craig L. Wilkins which has totally changed the way I view architecture and will pursue my career as an architect. It is a little intense and I don’t agree with everything the author concludes. However it is definitely the most thought provoking book about architecture education and the profession that I have ever read!!
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff is the only book I've read lately that kept me engrossed to the point of ignoring my other responsiblities so I could find out what would happen. I also went back and reread chapters over as I progressed through it, partly to make the pleasure of the writing last, partly to make sure I hadn't missed anything - which I frequently had. iI's about good vs. bad, and it's a great summer read.
alshoaja, Craig Wilkins is brilliant, I'll have to look for that book.
Summer reads
Hi all - Anyone have suggestions for great summer reads? Preferably architecture related, but if you have a fiction or philosophy book that is a must, I'd be happy to hear about that as well.
I’m reading “The Aesthetics of Equity” by Craig L. Wilkins which has totally changed the way I view architecture and will pursue my career as an architect. It is a little intense and I don’t agree with everything the author concludes. However it is definitely the most thought provoking book about architecture education and the profession that I have ever read!!
If you haven't read it yet - Freedom by Jonathan Franzen is excellent.
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff is the only book I've read lately that kept me engrossed to the point of ignoring my other responsiblities so I could find out what would happen. I also went back and reread chapters over as I progressed through it, partly to make the pleasure of the writing last, partly to make sure I hadn't missed anything - which I frequently had. iI's about good vs. bad, and it's a great summer read.
alshoaja, Craig Wilkins is brilliant, I'll have to look for that book.
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Cities for people by Jan Gehl
short one: 'transparent things' by nabokov
this is last years suggested summer reading list for in coming students to Upenn school of design
http://www.amazon.com/UPenn-summer-reading-list/lm/R1Y7UTJGXLRB9F
I would love see other universities have summer reading recommendations
the triumph of cities // edward glaeser
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Mike Davis
Architecture and the Sciences: Exchanging Metaphors
Antoine Picon
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Roland Barthes
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
Walter Benjamin
"siftings"
"depth of field"
Jens Jensen
you will thank me.
I'm just starting this guy.
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
the timeless way of building by christopher alexander provides a wonderful way of thinking about designing a space.
Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment by Reyner Banham (on the UPenn list) is an awesome book.
I just picked up Paradiso by Jose Lezama Lima.
the sciences of the artificial --- herbert simon
kinetic architecture --- william zuk & roger clark
rethinking architecture --- leach
Robinson Crusoe
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