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tcbearth

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.

 
May 1, 11 11:06 pm
alshoaja

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!!  

 

May 6, 11 5:21 pm  · 
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Apurimac

If you haven't read it yet - Freedom by Jonathan Franzen is excellent.

May 6, 11 5:32 pm  · 
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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.

May 6, 11 5:45 pm  · 
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l3wis

Gödel, Escher, Bach

May 7, 11 1:05 am  · 
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rutger

Cities for people by Jan Gehl

May 7, 11 7:34 am  · 
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uhhhhh

short one: 'transparent things' by nabokov

May 7, 11 1:16 pm  · 
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vemelnyk

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

May 9, 11 6:07 pm  · 
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i r giv up

the triumph of cities // edward glaeser

 

May 10, 11 4:27 pm  · 
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edwavila

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

May 11, 11 2:40 pm  · 
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snook_dude

"siftings"

"depth of field"

 

Jens Jensen

 

you will thank me.

May 11, 11 9:27 pm  · 
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I'm just starting this guy. 

 

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

 

 

May 12, 11 7:56 am  · 
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Lucas Delort

the timeless way of building by christopher alexander provides a wonderful way of thinking about designing a space.

May 17, 11 11:17 pm  · 
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Medusa

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.
 

May 19, 11 10:05 pm  · 
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jmanganelli

the sciences of the artificial --- herbert simon

kinetic architecture --- william zuk & roger clark

rethinking architecture --- leach

May 19, 11 10:22 pm  · 
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go do it

Robinson Crusoe

May 19, 11 11:51 pm  · 
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