Michael Manfredi

Architect / United States / WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism

Michael Manfredi’s Book List

How to compile a list of meaningful books? Where to start? The following is a very partial list of books that have been formative to me as an architect, designer, and teacher. It’s an eclectic list. These are books that I revisit often and that, in effect, continue to be my valued friends, mentors, provocateurs, and sources of inspiration.

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Marcella Hazan

As an architect who likes to cook, I can think of few cookbooks that are so “architectural.” Hazan both illuminates the process of making and contextualizes the territory of a particular dish.

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino’s meditations on the values and attributes that make great literature: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity, and consistency. It is as relevant to architecture as it is to literature.

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