Architects


The Fountainhead
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid
Loving Frank
Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines
The Design (Heart, #2)
Elements of Retrofit (Thomas Elkin, #1)
Sense of Place (Thomas Elkin, #3)
Clarity of Lines (Thomas Elkin, #2)
Iggy Peck, Architect (The Questioneers (Picture Books) #1)
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
S, M, L, XL
Family Ties
Disasterology 101
Miss Fix-It by Emma HartThe Obsession by Nora RobertsBounty by Kristen AshleyTribute by Nora RobertsThe Next Always by Nora Roberts
Renovation Romance
117 books — 29 voters

Atmospheres by Peter ZumthorThe Poetics of Space by Gaston BachelardA Pattern Language by Christopher W. AlexanderThe Timeless Way of Building by Christopher W. AlexanderTwenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand by Simon Unwin
An Architect Reads
102 books — 11 voters
A New Theory of Urban Design by Christopher W. AlexanderThe Phenomenon of Life by Christopher W. AlexanderA Vision of a Living World by Christopher W. AlexanderHassan Fathy by Salma Samar DamlujiArchitect's Handbook of Construction Detailing by David Kent Ballast
architect reads - part 2
100 books — 2 voters

Simon Unwin
…we human beings are, at our psychological core, game players; we have a predilection for rule systems (which we also like to transgress), strategies (in which we like to display cunning) and competition (in which we like to establish our superiority over others).
Simon Unwin, Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.
Jamie L. Harding

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