please recommend some books about design methodology, critical thinking or any books that change your life.
Now I study master degree. Sorry if my English skill is very bad...
Actually, after I finish bachelor degree , when I work, I start to think in the same way, the same process everyday, not differn from the way whrn I studied in university much. that why I continue to study Master degree.
Compare with many teachers, they can develop student's process, they can help student, to improve their concept design... How they can? I dont know.
I always ask myself, how I can design new building with new process. How I can develop my idea or my process or the way of thinking. After I graduate, I hope I can do it
Im looking for some books that make me have more idea or more process to design.
or process to design form of building. human behavior , or some books that change the way of thinking such as design methodology, how to ask right question , how to research, and critical thinking.
Now Im reading tectonic architecture by Frampton and the way that Peter Zumthor design Thermal Bath, Thinking of architecture, lesson for students in architecture . sometime I think it quite basic thing ,but Its very interesting.
If you have any recommended book, pls let me know.
Thank you.
Non Sequitur
Aug 7, 15 10:00 am
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
Don't read architecture related stuff if your looking for life lessons and philosophy. I personally don't believe that architecture is the lens with which should should interpret the world but rather the output and by product of the way you view the world.
Of personal influence and I would highly recommend:
Johnathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Emerson's Essays on Self Reliance
Cats Cradle by Vonnegut
DTL DWG
Aug 7, 15 6:38 pm
/\ agree and Vonnegut is always good..............Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson..................The Rebel by Albert Camus...............The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat...............The Illusion of the End by Jean Baudrilliard..............a thousand Plateaus by Deleuze and Gautari...............Beyond the Outsider by Colin Wilson...........Infancy and History by Giorgio Agamben..................those should do the trick ;)
Miles Jaffe
Aug 7, 15 6:56 pm
Wabi-Sabi by Leonard Koren On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt Summa Technologie by Stanislaw Lem
go do it
Aug 8, 15 12:59 am
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Wilma Buttfit
Aug 8, 15 11:07 am
2 life-changing books in the human behavior and psychology category: The Road Less Traveled and People of the Lie both by M Scott Peck.
archanonymous
Aug 8, 15 1:02 pm
Atlas of Novel Tectonics by Reiser + Umemoto
1000 Years of Non-Linear History by Manuel Delanda
Guns, Germs, Steel by Jared Diamond
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
Gemarch
Aug 8, 15 4:40 pm
'Creative confidence ' by David kelly and Tom kelly
Potentialarch
Aug 8, 15 5:53 pm
'Ethics' by Baruch Spinoza
TIQM
Aug 9, 15 8:45 pm
"Complicity and Conviction" by William Hubbard.
chigurh
Aug 9, 15 8:56 pm
on the way to work - damien hirst
Lee Robert
Aug 10, 15 8:40 am
"The War of Art"
"The Art of Non-Conformity"
Both books are much more about how to find pleasure through work, which is something I struggled with a lot right out of school. You really can't comprehend how tedious and relentless life can be until you're in the thick of it.
Vendetta
Aug 15, 15 11:38 am
thank u!
gwharton
Aug 16, 15 8:29 pm
"On Bullshit" by Harry G. Frankfurt
This is required reading for anybody who is serious about thinking. Also, it's short, easy to read, and free in PDF form:
please recommend some books about design methodology, critical thinking or any books that change your life.
Now I study master degree. Sorry if my English skill is very bad...
Actually, after I finish bachelor degree , when I work, I start to think in the same way, the same process everyday, not differn from the way whrn I studied in university much. that why I continue to study Master degree.
Compare with many teachers, they can develop student's process, they can help student, to improve their concept design... How they can? I dont know.
I always ask myself, how I can design new building with new process. How I can develop my idea or my process or the way of thinking. After I graduate, I hope I can do it
Im looking for some books that make me have more idea or more process to design.
or process to design form of building. human behavior , or some books that change the way of thinking such as design methodology, how to ask right question , how to research, and critical thinking.
Now Im reading tectonic architecture by Frampton and the way that Peter Zumthor design Thermal Bath, Thinking of architecture, lesson for students in architecture . sometime I think it quite basic thing ,but Its very interesting.
If you have any recommended book, pls let me know.
Thank you.
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
By Richard Dawkins. 1998.
all of christopher alexander books
https://www.google.com/search?num=20&safe=off&espv=2&q=christopher+alexander+books&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDgxEHsxCHfq6-gZFJTpYSnKUllZ1spZ-Un5-tn1hakpFfZAViFyvk5-VUbgs8dYjdbMtM79cCKYZ2H1n-RV0zAACKjMyUTwAAAA&sa=X&ved=0CO8BEM06KAEwIWoVChMIteqm5JGXxwIVxpWICh0eTQ8w&biw=1920&bih=971
Don't read architecture related stuff if your looking for life lessons and philosophy. I personally don't believe that architecture is the lens with which should should interpret the world but rather the output and by product of the way you view the world.
Of personal influence and I would highly recommend:
Johnathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Emerson's Essays on Self Reliance
Cats Cradle by Vonnegut
/\ agree and Vonnegut is always good..............Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson..................The Rebel by Albert Camus...............The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat...............The Illusion of the End by Jean Baudrilliard..............a thousand Plateaus by Deleuze and Gautari...............Beyond the Outsider by Colin Wilson...........Infancy and History by Giorgio Agamben..................those should do the trick ;)
Wabi-Sabi by Leonard Koren
On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt
Summa Technologie by Stanislaw Lem
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
2 life-changing books in the human behavior and psychology category: The Road Less Traveled and People of the Lie both by M Scott Peck.
Atlas of Novel Tectonics by Reiser + Umemoto
1000 Years of Non-Linear History by Manuel Delanda
Guns, Germs, Steel by Jared Diamond
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
'Creative confidence ' by David kelly and Tom kelly
'Ethics' by Baruch Spinoza
"Complicity and Conviction" by William Hubbard.
on the way to work - damien hirst
"The War of Art"
"The Art of Non-Conformity"
Both books are much more about how to find pleasure through work, which is something I struggled with a lot right out of school. You really can't comprehend how tedious and relentless life can be until you're in the thick of it.
thank u!
"On Bullshit" by Harry G. Frankfurt
This is required reading for anybody who is serious about thinking. Also, it's short, easy to read, and free in PDF form:
http://www.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_bullshit.pdf
It's not a book but Playboy changed my life at 15.
This set of GA Global Architecture Book 1 -13 at William Stout Books would change my life immensely and for the better if I could afford it:
http://www.stoutbooks.com/cgi-bin/stoutbooks.cgi/66973.html
Yikes. That's a lot of money, but those GA books 1-13 would be amazing to have. You should look on Amazon, Ebay, AbeBooks.
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck
Gee whiz boxy lady, there just so happens to be a set for sale on ebay. I don't suppose you could possibly be the seller.......!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/GA-Global-Architecture-Book-1-13-Corbusier-Aalto-Neutra-Breuer-Kahn-etc-/291541531380?hash=item43e13abaf4