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