I completed Sanderson's Mistborn yesterday, which I wrote at my wife's urging. I also like to read and ended up reading fantasy novels like The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor novel here. My wife has the next two books in the series and I look forward to reading them:-)
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 7, 18 1:48 am
The Death and Life of Great American Cities. I can't believe I haven't read it yet.
daniele scarpa kos
Jan 9, 18 7:02 am
Conversations with Federico Zeri cosmopolitan art historian
This. so far it's confirming everything my acid experience revealed to me.
b3tadine[sutures]
Jul 4, 20 1:37 pm
Wait, you tried acid?
liberty bell
Jul 4, 20 2:08 pm
b3ta did you just post this today, Independence Day 2020?
Non Sequitur
Jul 4, 20 2:11 pm
Great movie
b3tadine[sutures]
Jul 4, 20 2:14 pm
Yes, I did; how did I not know?
liberty bell
Jul 4, 20 2:18 pm
Yes, I did acid one time, in 1992, and it was life-changing, but it took me reading this Pollan book to allow me to really open my heart to how life-changing it was. It’s all beautiful, we’re all one and it’s all beautiful. (
It’s hard to feel connected to that feeling in our current state of the world but I *do* believe it. Maybe I need a refresher trip.)
Non Sequitur
Jul 4, 20 2:33 pm
subject of the new podcast
Non Sequitur
Aug 6, 18 2:46 pm
I’m currently reading an excellent discussion about wealthy adolescence expectations. Truly riveting descent into the madness certain people commit themselves too. #allfragilesnowflakelivesmatter
Non Sequitur
Aug 6, 18 9:39 pm
$40K per year private school = wealthy. #firstworldproblems
Non Sequitur
Aug 6, 18 10:08 pm
Good luck outside in the real world.
Fivescore
Aug 6, 18 10:38 pm
Jackson, honey, it's only been 13 minutes since "I'll go now, and I won't come back." You have to at least space the final departures to hourly, if they're to have even the gravity of a cuckoo clock.
kjdt
Aug 6, 18 10:50 pm
Loans. For private art high school. It's bad enough that people get out of grad school and start their careers 50k in debt or whatever. Now they're racking that up before they even get to college. Their parents probably think putting this into a niche high school will pay off by getting their kid more money from colleges. But there are 70+ niche high schools in California alone - and colleges only want one or two of each niche. If the parents aren't wealthy and they spend the next 10 years paying off private high school, then they're cutting into their retirement nest egg to do this, and thinking their kid's going to be able to help them in their old age, once he gets that lucrative career. In architecture. Hehe.
kjdt
Aug 7, 18 7:13 pm
Kid, you're the one who mentioned loans - and I made a statement about kids whose parents take out loans for high school - not specifically about you. If your parents didn't take out any loans for you or your sibling then the statement wouldn't apply to you, right?
Non Sequitur
Aug 8, 18 7:43 am
What the fuck is all this about Ricky? This George fellow fell in the deep end of the crazy sauce pots.
Non Sequitur
Aug 8, 18 8:47 am
Ricky, I think it's because of your comments to Mr. Jackson "butt-hurt" McGee in his culture change thread. See your responses at AUG 6, 18 1:40 PM.
kjdt
Aug 8, 18 4:16 pm
After the "goodbye mean people" soliloquy and vowing to put up a firewall to block this evil site, you can see why he'd have to make a new character to continue the rant with a straight face.
kjdt
Aug 8, 18 10:08 pm
He's baaa-aaack....
SpontaneousCombustion
Aug 8, 18 10:43 pm
With another serial killer name.
randomised
Aug 7, 18 3:26 am
I thought this thread was about books
Non Sequitur
Aug 8, 18 9:00 am
Was re-re-reading this while on vacation over the last 2 weeks. Probably my favorite book.
Definitively look it up. Dawkins gives excellent explanations things that to laymen appear crazy and unique (ie. 1 in 23 chance that two people sitting in the same plane share a birthday). The book's title is a reference to how Newton was demonized when he attempted to explain in a rational way how a rainbow's colours are created.
whistler
Aug 8, 18 4:39 pm
Red Notice, by Bill Browder
Endure, by Alex Hutchison
12 Rules for Life, by Jordan Peterson
thatsthat
Aug 9, 18 9:41 am
Is Endure worth the read? I keep seeing it everywhere!
whistler
Aug 9, 18 6:52 pm
Only if you are into distance running / skiing / cycling.
I agree Peterson can be a bit of a blowhard but I like the way he makes an argument and rationalizes his position ( don't agree with it all ) I would find him painful to have to site beside him all night at a dinner party though.
I also really loved his Class. (Tidbit of trivia: Fussell coined the term "Class X" to describe people who willfully choose not to conform to the class structure, and this was the inspiration for Douglas Coupland's book title Generation X.)
Dokuser
Oct 3, 19 11:49 am
I probably should be using my reading time towards studio, but I am currently reading Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape by Molly Wright Steenson.
0L0ID
Oct 3, 19 1:35 pm
Strugatsky brothers - Doomed City. I have a soft spot for dystopian fiction particularly when the setting plays as much a role as the characters..
another recent read:
liberty bell
Jul 4, 20 2:10 pm
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. So fantastic.
randomised
Jul 4, 20 4:07 pm
Wander in the Antropocene (Dwalen in het Antropoceen)
bowling_ball
Jul 4, 20 4:09 pm
I'm reading some of my spam emails today. Fascinating stuff! Super hilarious too. Highly recommended.
Ancient Sheds
Jul 4, 20 10:08 pm
in bits and pieces over spurts of free time, many cycles...
(I usually don't finish the books once I figure out the end game and patterns)
whistler
Jul 6, 20 2:50 pm
Inner Game of Tennis, Tim Galloway
Range, David Epstein
citizen
Jul 6, 20 3:12 pm
.
Dingessy
Jul 9, 20 3:39 pm
I started studying architecture and modeling with Jamie Cardoso's book "Realistic Architectural Rendering with 3ds Max and VRay". Of course, we had to pay a lot of money, but the information is provided in a convenient form and all the important topics are discussed.
thedoctorisin
May 4, 21 4:11 pm
I hope everyone is reading some fiction this year! I feel like many people in my generation (millennials) only read self-help books, memoirs or money making guides. Books about architecture are great too, but it's important to read stories every now and then.
The last book I read was The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Her writing style is very complex, yet so intriguing. It's a thoughtful narrative about race and colorism in America.
I'm currently reading The Woman in the Window. This one is about an agoraphobic psychologist. It's very entertaining and I would recommend it if you enjoy a bit of mystery.
RJ87
May 4, 21 5:40 pm
I've never been particularly big into books & have always gravitated towards long form articles that I can absorb in one sitting & move on. But I've always had a thing for book shelves. I'm in various cycles of starting, stopping & then starting again three books currently.
1.) Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
2.) A Promised Land by Obama
3.) The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
In contrast to many Architects, I all but refuse Architecture as a hobby. I already wakeup thinking about how things go together as it is.
Miles Jaffe
May 24, 21 12:48 pm
Kitchen Confidential is great. The Promised Land should be titled "The Empty Promise". The last is an oxymoron.
randomised
May 5, 21 5:09 am
Am (re-)reading Orban Space by Luc Deleu T.O.P. Office:
Lately been reading this to the kid (just started integrating books into bedtime routine), as a bio very basic. But I dig the art/illustrations.
On a related note, overhead my wife explaining the book/reasoning behind purchase. Something to the effect of "she is one of my design inspirations". Which I was surprised at mainly because she has more a "vintage" vs contemporary aesthetic. But she meant more from the angle of a female superstar in her field, I think.
,,,,
Jul 5, 21 9:18 pm
bump
Burrrrrton
Jul 6, 21 8:48 am
I am currently reading Franz Kafka's Castle. Less than 100 pages left. The novel is incomprehensible, there is no exciting plot, but at the same time there is no desire to abandon reading.
Donna Sink
Jul 6, 21 5:13 pm
Thank you z1111!!
I just finished The Overstory by Richard Powers and I highly recommend it. It’s dense, and divided into the sections Roots, Trunk, Crown, and Seeds, because it’s a centuries-long narrative of humans within a millennia-long story of trees. Absolutely beautiful. I re-lived some of the 90s in the Pacific Northwest through it, but it’s sad to see that idealism of groups like Greenpeace and ELF was really all for nothing.
tduds
Jul 6, 21 5:35 pm
I haven't read it yet (it's on my list) but a criticism I keep hearing is that the ending is quite a let-down (edit: Not that it's a sad ending, but that it fails to capture the grand scope of the rest of the story). Without giving too much away, did you feel similarly?
Donna Sink
Jul 6, 21 8:24 pm
I somewhat agree. But the it also fits with the story that a lack of resolution is life. There was no way to come to a “big ending” because we’re still going on this planet and most likely the trees will outlast us, despite our worst efforts.
Miles Jaffe
Jul 6, 21 8:37 pm
Wonderful and timely.
randomised
Jul 7, 21 2:16 am
Am starting this one:
It has essays by artists, architects and even Buzz Aldrin among others, should be an interesting read on the train...
Miles Jaffe
Jul 7, 21 9:54 am
Try Packing for Mars, by Mary Roach.
atelier nobody
Jul 7, 21 12:56 pm
Lots of books on Safavid Persian design, researching a jewelry piece I was working on, but managed to turn into a molten blob on my workbench.
Now, escapist scifi & fantasy.
Miles Jaffe
Jul 18, 21 4:28 pm
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
It's a fast read, good for review and building confidence moreso than learning revolutionary stuff.
What are you reading? (Need not be directly related to architecture because everything is indirectly related to architecture therefore relevant.)
Winter break books to feed the soul and inner kid...
Currently re-reading A Son of the Circus by John Irving as my husband is soon headed to India.
I got a Danielle Steel book about a young woman architect for Christmas. Imma gonna read it.
A Fair Country by John Ralston Saul
I completed Sanderson's Mistborn yesterday, which I wrote at my wife's urging. I also like to read and ended up reading fantasy novels like The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor novel here. My wife has the next two books in the series and I look forward to reading them:-)
The Death and Life of Great American Cities. I can't believe I haven't read it yet.
Conversations with Federico Zeri cosmopolitan art historian
>>>60 mm...
Devil in the White City
Salt: A World History ...a really fun, colloquial read so far.
Something mysterious and it's entitled The Quiet American by Graham Greene. Very interesting book to read.
Kafka's Poseidon http://jlet.org/poseidon.html
Anything by Umberto Eco is always a good read. However, for non-fictional ones, personal development books by Brian Tracy are on my list now.
Eco can be a slog. Although The Island of the Day Before and The Name of the Rose are magnificent.
Those are the two books I read from him so far and they're part of my favorite books. So I thought the others would be great as well.
just finished the 2nd of 3 of a science fiction trilogy - The Three Body Problem, and The Dark Forest, by Cixin Liu. Highly recommended.
Should add, some books make us think how banal all of this is, how arrogant we grew as a species, and how small and insignificant we are.
Discovering Chess Openings by John Emms
Trying to get serious about my game...
Architect & Developer - https://amzn.to/2KRGzFA
It's pretty fantastic and motivating...
I'm halfway through it.
This. so far it's confirming everything my acid experience revealed to me.
Wait, you tried acid?
b3ta did you just post this today, Independence Day 2020?
Great movie
Yes, I did; how did I not know?
Yes, I did acid one time, in 1992, and it was life-changing, but it took me reading this Pollan book to allow me to really open my heart to how life-changing it was. It’s all beautiful, we’re all one and it’s all beautiful. (
It’s hard to feel connected to that feeling in our current state of the world but I *do* believe it. Maybe I need a refresher trip.)
subject of the new podcast
I’m currently reading an excellent discussion about wealthy adolescence expectations. Truly riveting descent into the madness certain people commit themselves too. #allfragilesnowflakelivesmatter
$40K per year private school = wealthy. #firstworldproblems
Good luck outside in the real world.
Jackson, honey, it's only been 13 minutes since "I'll go now, and I won't come back." You have to at least space the final departures to hourly, if they're to have even the gravity of a cuckoo clock.
Loans. For private art high school. It's bad enough that people get out of grad school and start their careers 50k in debt or whatever. Now they're racking that up before they even get to college. Their parents probably think putting this into a niche high school will pay off by getting their kid more money from colleges. But there are 70+ niche high schools in California alone - and colleges only want one or two of each niche. If the parents aren't wealthy and they spend the next 10 years paying off private high school, then they're cutting into their retirement nest egg to do this, and thinking their kid's going to be able to help them in their old age, once he gets that lucrative career. In architecture. Hehe.
Kid, you're the one who mentioned loans - and I made a statement about kids whose parents take out loans for high school - not specifically about you. If your parents didn't take out any loans for you or your sibling then the statement wouldn't apply to you, right?
What the fuck is all this about Ricky? This George fellow fell in the deep end of the crazy sauce pots.
Ricky, I think it's because of your comments to Mr. Jackson "butt-hurt" McGee in his culture change thread. See your responses at AUG 6, 18 1:40 PM.
After the "goodbye mean people" soliloquy and vowing to put up a firewall to block this evil site, you can see why he'd have to make a new character to continue the rant with a straight face.
He's baaa-aaack....
With another serial killer name.
I thought this thread was about books
Was re-re-reading this while on vacation over the last 2 weeks. Probably my favorite book.
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
Looks like a good one!
Definitively look it up. Dawkins gives excellent explanations things that to laymen appear crazy and unique (ie. 1 in 23 chance that two people sitting in the same plane share a birthday). The book's title is a reference to how Newton was demonized when he attempted to explain in a rational way how a rainbow's colours are created.
Red Notice, by Bill Browder
Endure, by Alex Hutchison
12 Rules for Life, by Jordan Peterson
Is Endure worth the read? I keep seeing it everywhere!
Only if you are into distance running / skiing / cycling.
The Last Wild Men of Borneo by Carl Hoffman
Red Notice by Bill Browder
Endure by Alex Hutchison
12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson is a bore.
Read Garrett Reitveld
I agree Peterson can be a bit of a blowhard but I like the way he makes an argument and rationalizes his position ( don't agree with it all ) I would find him painful to have to site beside him all night at a dinner party though.
Starting McCarthy's Border Trilogy:
altered carbon. meh....
Bad: Or, the Dumbing of America
by Paul Fussell
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/...
I also really loved his Class. (Tidbit of trivia: Fussell coined the term "Class X" to describe people who willfully choose not to conform to the class structure, and this was the inspiration for Douglas Coupland's book title Generation X.)
I probably should be using my reading time towards studio, but I am currently reading Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape by Molly Wright Steenson.
Strugatsky brothers - Doomed City. I have a soft spot for dystopian fiction particularly when the setting plays as much a role as the characters..
another recent read:
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. So fantastic.
Wander in the Antropocene (Dwalen in het Antropoceen)
I'm reading some of my spam emails today. Fascinating stuff! Super hilarious too. Highly recommended.
in bits and pieces over spurts of free time, many cycles...
The Mindful Brain
The Fabulous Fibonacci Numbers
The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number
A Systems Theory of Religion
A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
Remembering the Kanji 1: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters
Chinese Pictograms: The Pictographic Evolution & Graphic Creation of Hanzi
A New Kind of Science
(I usually don't finish the books once I figure out the end game and patterns)
Inner Game of Tennis, Tim Galloway
Range, David Epstein
.
I started studying architecture and modeling with Jamie Cardoso's book "Realistic Architectural Rendering with 3ds Max and VRay". Of course, we had to pay a lot of money, but the information is provided in a convenient form and all the important topics are discussed.
I hope everyone is reading some fiction this year! I feel like many people in my generation (millennials) only read self-help books, memoirs or money making guides. Books about architecture are great too, but it's important to read stories every now and then.
The last book I read was The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Her writing style is very complex, yet so intriguing. It's a thoughtful narrative about race and colorism in America.
I'm currently reading The Woman in the Window. This one is about an agoraphobic psychologist. It's very entertaining and I would recommend it if you enjoy a bit of mystery.
I've never been particularly big into books & have always gravitated towards long form articles that I can absorb in one sitting & move on. But I've always had a thing for book shelves. I'm in various cycles of starting, stopping & then starting again three books currently.
1.) Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
2.) A Promised Land by Obama
3.) The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
In contrast to many Architects, I all but refuse Architecture as a hobby. I already wakeup thinking about how things go together as it is.
Kitchen Confidential is great. The Promised Land should be titled "The Empty Promise". The last is an oxymoron.
Am (re-)reading Orban Space by Luc Deleu T.O.P. Office:
Source image: https://www.valiz.nl/en/public...
Because there will be an exhibition:
LUC DELEU & T.O.P. office FUTURE PLANS
opening tomorrow May 6th 2021 in Antwerp, event will be on YouTube: https://www.vai.be/en/expos-en...
the fountainhe... oh, shit.
The People of the Abyss, Jack London
ASHRAE Fundamentals. Really.
Lately been reading this to the kid (just started integrating books into bedtime routine), as a bio very basic. But I dig the art/illustrations.
On a related note, overhead my wife explaining the book/reasoning behind purchase. Something to the effect of "she is one of my design inspirations". Which I was surprised at mainly because she has more a "vintage" vs contemporary aesthetic. But she meant more from the angle of a female superstar in her field, I think.
bump
I am currently reading Franz Kafka's Castle. Less than 100 pages left. The novel is incomprehensible, there is no exciting plot, but at the same time there is no desire to abandon reading.
Thank you z1111!!
I just finished The Overstory by Richard Powers and I highly recommend it. It’s dense, and divided into the sections Roots, Trunk, Crown, and Seeds, because it’s a centuries-long narrative of humans within a millennia-long story of trees. Absolutely beautiful. I re-lived some of the 90s in the Pacific Northwest through it, but it’s sad to see that idealism of groups like Greenpeace and ELF was really all for nothing.
I haven't read it yet (it's on my list) but a criticism I keep hearing is that the ending is quite a let-down (edit: Not that it's a sad ending, but that it fails to capture the grand scope of the rest of the story). Without giving too much away, did you feel similarly?
I somewhat agree. But the it also fits with the story that a lack of resolution is life. There was no way to come to a “big ending” because we’re still going on this planet and most likely the trees will outlast us, despite our worst efforts.
Wonderful and timely.
Am starting this one:
It has essays by artists, architects and even Buzz Aldrin among others, should be an interesting read on the train...
Try Packing for Mars, by Mary Roach.
Lots of books on Safavid Persian design, researching a jewelry piece I was working on, but managed to turn into a molten blob on my workbench.
Now, escapist scifi & fantasy.
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
by Charles Yu
His Excellency: George Washington