Chosen Books

Invited designers and commentators have chosen these as the books that inspire them and that have shaped their worldview or their ideas about design.
318 books
Geoffrey Bawa
Brian Brace Taylor
The Sphere and the Labyrinth (La sfera e il labirinto)
Manfredo Tafuri et al.
Theories and History of Architecture (Teoria e storia dell’architettura)
Manfredo Tafuri
Interpreting the Renaissance (Ricerca dell’Rinascimento)
Manfredo Tafuri
Architecture and Utopia
Manfredo Tafuri
Wooden Houses
Makoto Suzuki et al.
The Life and Work of John Nash, Architect
John Summerson
Architecture in Britain 1530–1830
John Summerson
Heavenly Mansions and Other Essays on Architecture
John Summerson
The Classical Language of Architecture
John Summerson
Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 1
Peter Sulzer
Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 2
Peter Sulzer
Jean Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 3
Peter Sulzer
Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings
Louis Sullivan
The Edifice Complex
Deyan Sudjic
New Directions in British Architecture
Deyan Sudjic
Design Like You Give a Damn
Kate Stohr and Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for Humanity, eds.
A Field Guide to Landmarks of Modern Architecture in Europe
Miriam F. Stimpson
New York 1930
Robert A. M. Stern et al.
Architecture on the Edge of Postmodernism
Robert A. M. Stern et al.
Differences
Ignasi Solà-Morales Rubió
The Swedish House
Ingalill Snitt et al.
Without Rhetoric
Alison and Peter Smithson
Prefab Architecture: A Guide to Modular Design and Construction
Ryan E. Smith
La Nueva Villa Getty
Jorge Silvetti et al.
Miami Modern Metropolis
Allan T. Shulman, ed.
Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts; or, Practical Aesthetics
Gottfried Semper
SANAA: Spiel der Gegensätze/The Play of Opposites
Kazuyo Sejima et al.
Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa, Sanaa Works 1995–2003
Kazuyo Sejima et al.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Meryle Secrest
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