116 Books to Read
ARCHITECTS, FIRMS, AND MOVEMENTS
ESSENTIALS
1. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings,
Construction / Christopher Alexander, Sara
Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein
2. The Architecture of the City / Aldo Rossi
3. Athmospheres / Peter Zumthor
4. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture /
Robert Venturi
5. Conversations with Students (Architecture at
Rice) / Louis Kahn
6. Experiencing Architecture / Eiler Rasmussen
7. The Eyes of the Skin / Juhani Pallasmaa
8. The Image of the City / Kevin Lynch
9. In Praise of Shadows / Junichiro Tanizaki
10. Learning from Las Vegas / Denise Scott Brown,
Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour
11. Mutations / Rem Koolhaas, Stefano Boeri,
Sanford Kwinter, Nadia Tazi, Hans Ulrich Obrist
12. Neufert Architects' Data / Ernst Neufert, Peter
Neufert
13. The Poetics of Space / Gaston Bachelard
14. The Seven Lamps of Architecture / John Ruskin
15. Superstudio: Life without objects / Peter Lang
16. Ten Canonical Buildings: 1950-2000/ Peter
Eisenman
17. Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An
Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965 - 1995 /
Kate Nesbitt (org)
18. Theory and Design in the First Machine Age /
Reyner Banham
19. Universal Principles of Design / William Lidwell,
Kritina Holden, Jill Butler
20. The Works: Anatomy of the City / Kate Ascher
21. Yona Friedman: The Dilution of Architecture /
Yona Friedman
22. Architecture: Form, Space and Order / Francis
D. K. Ching
23. Architectural Acoustics / David Egan
24. Detail in Contemporary Architecture Series /
Virginia McLeod
25. Elemental: Incremental Housing and
Participatory Design Manual / Alejandro
Aravena
26. Thermal Delight in Architecture / Lisa Heschong
1. Archigram / Peter Cook
2. Atlas of Novel Tectonics / Jesse Reiser
3. BIG, HOT TO COLD: An Odyssey of Architectural
Adaptation / Bjarke Ingels
4. Cities for People / Jan Gehl
5. Design Like You Give a Damn / Architecture for
Humanity
6. Eladio Dieste: Innovation in Structural Art /
Stanford Anderson
7. Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold
of Detectability / Eyal Weizman
8. Freeing Architecture / Junya Ishigami
9. The Future of Architecture / Frank Lloyd Wright
10. Isay Weinfeld: The Brazilian Architect /
Gestalten
11. Kicked a Building Lately? / Ada Louise Huxtable
12. Lina Bo Bardi / Zeuler R. M. de A. Lima
13. MOS: Selected Works / Michael Meredith and
Hilary Sample
14. Oscar Niemeyer / Philip Jodizio
15. Rafael Moneo: Remarks on 21 Works / Rafael
Moneo
16. Slow Manifesto / Lebbeus Woods Blog
17. Solano Benitez / Solano Benitez
18. Thinking Architecture / Peter Zumthor
19. Thought by Hand / Flores & Prats
20. Uneasy Balance / Christopher Platt, Brian Carter
21. We'll Get There When We Cross That Bridge /
Amale Andraos and Dan Wood
22. Yes is More / Bjarke Ingels
NOVELS
1. The Australian Ugliness / Robin Boyd
2. Citizens of No Place: An Architectural Graphic
Novel / Jimenez Lai
3. Invisible Cities / Italo Calvino
4. The Pillars of the Earth / Ken Follet
HISTORY
1. A World History of Architecture / Michael Fazio,
Marian Moffett, Lawrence Wodehouse
2. Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History
and Social Meaning / Ernst J. Grube, James
Dickie, Oleg Grabar, Eleanor Sims, Ronald
 Lewcock, Dalu Jones, Gut T. Petherbridge,,
George Michell
3. Barcelona Supermodelo / Alessandro Scarnato
4. Clip, Stamp, Fold: The Radical Architecture of
Little Magazines 196X to 197X / Beatriz
Colomina
5. Los Hechos de la Arquitectura / Alejandro
Aravena, Fernando Perez
6. Modern Architecture / Alan Colquhoun
7. Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Fourth
Edition) / Kenneth Frampton
8. Palladio, The Villa and the Landscape / Gerrit
Smienk, Johannes Niemeijer
9. Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century
Architecture / Ulrich Conrads
10. Project Japan: Metabolism Talks / Rem
Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist
11. Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech
/ Todd Gannon
12. Teorías e historia de la ciudad contemporánea /
Carlos García Vázquez
13. The Prisons / Le Carceri / Giovanni Battista
Piranesi
THEORY
1. Architecture As Space / Bruno Zevi
2. Architecture Depends / Jeremy Till
3. The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in
Cinema / Juhani Pallasmaa
4. Are We Human? Notes On Archeology Of
Design / Beatriz Colomina
5. Arquitectura y política / Josep Maria Montaner,
Zaida Muxí
6. The Art-Architecture Complex / Hal Foster
7. BLDGBLOG Book / Geoff Manaugh
8. Cities of Hope: Australian Architecture and
Design by Edmond and Corrigan / Conrad
Hamann
9. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry
into the Origins of Cultural Change / David
Harvey
10. Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural
Theory 1993-2009 / A. Krista Sykes
11. Content / Rem Koolhaas
12. Delirious New York: A retroactive manifesto for
Manhattan / Rem Koolhaas
13. The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at
War / Robert Bevan
14. Domesticity at War / Beatriz Colomina
15. Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of
Architecture / Rory Hyde
16. Domesticity at War / Beatriz Colomina
17. Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of
Architecture / Rory Hyde
18. The Good Life: A Guided Visit to the Houses of
Modernity / Iñaki Ábalos
19. The Language of Architecture / Andrea Simitch
and Val Warke
20. Lo Ordinario / Enrique Walker
21. The Manual of Section / Paul Lewis, Marc
Tsurumaki, and David J. Lewis
22. Oppositions Reader: Selected Essays 1973-
1984 / Michael Hays
23. Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy's Architecture
and Biopolitics / Beatriz Preciado
24. The Structure of the Ordinary: Form and Control
in the Built Environment / N.J. Habraken
25. oretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the
Work of Eight Contemporary Architects / Rafael
Moneo
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27. Toward an Other Globalization: From the Single
Thought to Universal Conscience / Milton
Santos
28. Tschumi on Architecture: Conversations with
Enrique Walker / Enrique Walker
29. Building Brasilia / Marcel Gautherot and
Kenneth Frampton
30. The City of Tomorrow: Sensors, Networks,
Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life / Carlo
Ratti, Matthew Claudel
31. Cities Without Ground / Adam Frampton,
Jonathan D. Solomon, Clara Wong
32. Collage City / Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter
33. Concise Townscape / Golden Cullen
34. The Death and Life of Great American Cities /
Jane Jacobs
35. The Granite Garden: Urban Nature And Human
Design / Anne W. Spirn
36. The History of the City / Leonardo Benevolo
37. Ladders / Albert Pope
38. Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space / Jan
Gehl
39. The New Science of Cities / Michael Batty
40. Triumph of the City / Edward Glaeser
41. The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the
City / Reinhold Martin
42. Walkscapes: walking as an aesthetic practice /
Francesco Careri
43. The 4-Hour Workweek / Tim Ferriss
44. Architect + Entrepreneur Volume 1 / Eric
Reinholdt
45. The Architecture of the Cocktail / Amy Zavatto
46. The Barefoot Architect / Johan van Lengen
47. Constructing Architecture / Andrea Deplazes
48. Liquid Modernity / Zygmunt Bauman
49. Non Places / Marc Auge
50. Quiero ser arquitecto / Alberto Campo-Baeza