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
The Strange Death of Architectural Criticism
Martin Pawley et al.
Storia dell’Architettura Moderna, vol. 2
Bruno Zevi
The Sphere and the Labyrinth (La sfera e il labirinto)
Manfredo Tafuri et al.
Space Calculated in Seconds
Marc Treib
Sir John Soane: The Architect as Collector, 1753-1837
Peter Thornton et al.
Sigurd Lewerentz, 1888-1975
Architectural Association
The Shingle Style Today
Vincent Scully
740 Park: The Story of the World’s Richest Apartment Building
Michael Gross
The Sense of Unity
Nader Ardalan et al.
SANAA: Spiel der Gegensätze/The Play of Opposites
Kazuyo Sejima et al.
Saarinen’s Quest: A Memoir
Richard Knight et al.
Round Buildings, Square Buildings, and Buildings That Wiggle Like a Fish
Philip M. Isaacson
The Rome of Borromini
Paolo Portoghesi
Recueil et Parallèle des Edifices de tout genre Anciens et Modernes
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand
Re: CP
Cedric Price
Quotidiano sostenibile
Ezio Manzini et al.
Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture
Ulrich Conrads
The Prodigious Builders
Bernard Rudofsky
Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media
Beatriz Colomina
The Prisons (Le Carceri)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Presence of Mies
Detlef Mertins
Prefab Architecture: A Guide to Modular Design and Construction
Ryan E. Smith
Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius
Nikolaus Pevsner
Philip Johnson: Life and Work
Franz Schulze
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