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 Architecture of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Bernhard Leitner
Architecture: Form, Space, and Order
Francis D. K. Ching
The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment
Reyner Banham
Architecture and Utopia
Manfredo Tafuri
Architecture on the Edge of Postmodernism
Robert A. M. Stern et al.
Architecture of Truth
François Cali
The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens
A.S.G. Butler
The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste
Geoffrey Scott
The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton
The Architecture of H. H. Richardson and His Times
Henry-Russell Hitchcock
The Architecture of Community
Léon Krier
The Architecture of Michelangelo
James S. Ackerman
Architecture in Britain 1530–1830
John Summerson
Architecture: From Prehistory to Postmodernity
Marvin Trachtenberg et al.
Architecture: Choice or Fate
Léon Krier
Architecture and Politics in Germany: 1918-1945
Barbara Miller Lane
Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation
Dalibor Vesely
Architectural Ornament
Brent C. Brolin
An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles
David Gebhard et al.
Architectonic Space
Dom Hans van der Laan
Animal Architecture
Karl von Frisch
Ancient Greek Architects at Work: Problems of Structure and Design
J. J. Coulton
American Buildings and Their Architects, vol. 5: The Impact of European Modernism in the Mid-twentieth Century
William H. Jordy
American Architecture
Fiske Kimball
Albert Kahn: Architect of Ford
Federico Bucci
AIA Guide to New York City (5th ed.)
Norval White et al.
Ai Weiwei’s Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006–2009
Ai Weiwei
Achille Castiglioni
Sergio Polano
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