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
Creation is a Patient Search (L’atelier de la recherche patiente)
Le Corbusier
A Critic Writes: Essays by Reyner Banham
Reyner Banham
Critical Path
R. Buckminster Fuller
The Curves of Time
Oscar Niemeyer
David Adler: The Architect and His Work
Richard Pratt
Design Activism
Alastair Fuad-Luke
Design After Modernism: Beyond the Object
John Thackara
Design Like You Give a Damn
Kate Stohr and Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for Humanity, eds.
Design with Climate
Victor Olgyay
Diary of the Cavaliere Bernini’s Visit to France
Paul Fréart de Chantelou
Differences
Ignasi Solà-Morales Rubió
Digital Water Pavilion
Carlo Ratti
Disappearing Architecture
Georg Flachbart et al.
Donald Judd: Raume Spaces
Donald Judd et al.
The Edifice Complex
Deyan Sudjic
Education of an Architect
John Hejduk
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen et al.
Eléments et théorie de l’architecture
Julien Guadet
Emotionally Durable Design
John Chapman
An Engineer Imagines
Peter Rice
English Country Houses
Christopher Hussey
The English House
Hermann Muthesius
Esperienza dell’Architettura
Ernesto Rogers
The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright et al.
Essential Le Corbusier: L’Esprit Nouveau Articles
Le Corbusier
A Field Guide to Landmarks of Modern Architecture in Europe
Miriam F. Stimpson
File Under Architecture
Herbert Muschamp
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
Carl E. Schorske