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Alec Issigonis
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Andrew Nahum
Architecture Without Architects
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Bernard Rudofsky
Designing for People
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Henry Dreyfuss

This book, though over 50 years old, has examples and advice that all designers and manufacturers could use today. Its message is timeless and has not been supplanted by other more recent publications. In addition, it’s a pleasure to read.

Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
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Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
Donald Albrecht
Eliot Noyes
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Gordon Bruce
Energy and Form: An Ecological Approach to Urban Growth
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Ralph L. Knowles
The Human Figure in Motion
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Eadweard Muybridge
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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L.T.C. Rolt
Kelly: More Than My Share of it All
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Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson
Mechanization Takes Command
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Sigfried Giedion
Module, Proportion, Symmetry, Rhythm (Vision + Value Series)
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Gyorgy Kepes
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
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Christopher Alexander
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
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Christopher Alexander
Sara Ishikawa
Murray Silverstein
Personal Space: The Behavioral Basis of Design
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Robert Sommer
The Poetics of Space
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Gaston Bachelard
The Sciences of the Artificial
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Herbert A. Simon
Unobtrusive Measures: Nonreactive Research in the Social Sciences
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Eugene Webb
Donald Campbell
Richard Schwartz
Lee Sechrest
Vision in Motion
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László Moholy-Nagy

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