We recommend you read at least one of the following before coming to interview:

  • Bo Bardi, L., Stones against Diamonds, AA publications
  • Moore, R., Why we build, Picador
  • Pallasmaa, J., The Eyes of the Skin, Wiley
  • Perec, G., Species of Space and Other Pieces, Penguin
  • Rasmussen, S.E., Experiencing Architecture, MIT
  • Till, J, Architecture Depends, MIT press

You also might find one or more of the following inspiring:

Fiction

  • Calvino, I,. Invisible Cities, Vintage Classics
  • Schultz, B., Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories, Penguin
  • Sebald, W.G., Austerlitz, Penguin
  • Achebe, C., Things fall apart, Penguin
  • Ali, M., Brick Lane, Black Swan
  • Ngozi Adichie, C, Half of a Yellow Sun

The ecological horizons of architecture

  • Berners-Lee, M.,There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years,CUP
  • Brand, S., How buildings learn: What happens after they’re built, Penguin
  • Cowen, R., Common Ground, Windmill
  • Cramer, D., The Narrow Edge, Yale
  • Diamond, J., Collapse: How societies choose or fail to survive, Penguin
  • Hagan, S., Ecological Urbanism: The Nature Of The City, Routledge.
  • Macfarlane, R., Underland, Penguin,
  • Schneider, T., Nishat, A. and Till, J., Spatial agency: other ways of doing architecture, Routledge
  • Steel, C., Hungry City, Vintage
  • Tree, I., Wilding: The return of nature to a British farm, Picador

Planning, drawing and making architecture

  • Blokland, T, Community as urban practice, Polity Press
  • Coates, N., Narrative Architecture, Wiley
  • Cook, P. Drawing: The Motive Force of Architecture, Wiley
  • Dernie, D., Material Imagination in Architecture, Routledge
  • Jacobs, J. The Death and Life Of Great American Cities, Random House
  • Francis Kéré, Radically simple, Hatje Kantz
  • Parry, E., Context: Architecture and the Genius of Place, Wiley
  • Minton, A., Ground Control: Fear and happiness in the twenty-first-century city, Penguin
  • Hatherly, O., A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Verso
  • Mc Guirk J., Radical Cities: Across Latin America in search of a New Architecture, Verso
  • Simone A. and Pieterse E., New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times, Polity Press
  • Tonkiss, F., Cities by Design: the Social Life of Urban Form , Polity Press

Introductions to modern architecture

  • Curtis, W., Modern Architecture since 1900, Phaidon
  • Frampton, K., Modern Architecture, A Critical History, Thaes and Hudson
  • Hernandez, F., Beyond Modernist Masters: Contemporary architecture in Latin America, Birkhäuser

You might also enjoy looking at some of these websites:

Or some of these articles/podcasts/videos:

 

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