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
Constant’s New Babylon
Mark Wigley
Community and Privacy
Serge Chermayeff et al.
The Classical Language of Architecture
John Summerson
The City Observed: Los Angeles
Charles Moore
Chicago’s Famous Buildings
Franz Schulze et al.
The Charlottesville Tapes
Various authors; Transcript of the Conference at the University of Virginia, November 12 and 13, 1982
Charles and Ray Eames
Pat Kirkham
Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture
Peter Collins
Cedric Price (Works II) [The Square Book]
Cedric Price
Carlo Scarpa: The Complete Works
Francesco Dal Co et al.
Carlo Scarpa: Architecture in Details
Bianca Albertini et al.
Carlo Scarpa: Theory, Design, Projects
Maria Antonietta Crippa
Building with Nantucket in Mind
J. Christopher Lang et al.
The Building Erected in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition 1851
Charles H. Gibbs-Smith
Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi: Best of Friends
Shoji Sadao
Brunelleschi’s Dome
Ross King
Behind the Picture Window
Bernard Rudofsky
The Bauhaus Reassessed: Sources and Design Theory
Gillian Naylor
Barragán Guide
Luis Barragán et al.
Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright (Studies and Executed Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright)
Frank Lloyd Wright
At Home by the Sea
Brian Vanden Brink et al.
Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals
Christopher Payne et al.
Arts & Architecture: The Entenza Years
Barbara Goldstein, ed.
The Artless Word: Mies van der Rohe on the Building Art
Fritz Neumeyer
Archizoom Associati, 1966–1974
Roberto Gargiani
Architetture nel Segno dei Maestri
Claudio Buttafava et al.
Architettura addio
Alessandro Mendini
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