
Bob Fallbeck of Cermak Peterka Petersen asked us via Twitter, "What are the Top 3 books about your profession that you have read?" We passed the question along to some of our architects and designers and these were the results.
Jane Hendricks, FAIA
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- The History of Architecture by Spiro Kostof
- Vers une Architecture by le Corbusier
Allison Titus, AIA
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler
Emily Dawson, AIA
- The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
- A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams by Michael Pollan
- Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers by Koren Leonard
- The Nature of Order: The Phenomenon of Life by Christopher Alexander
- Structure Systems by Heino Engel
- Sun, Wind, and Light by G.Z. Brown
Jim Wilson, AIA
- Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi, et al
- The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
- Between Silence and Light by Lou Kahn
Tim Richey, AIA
- Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Complete Works Vol. 4 & 5 by Peter Buchanan
- Hopkins2: The Work of Michael Hopkins and Partners
- Richard Meier, Architect Vol 3
Taryn Mudge
- The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses by Jahani Pallasmaa
- For An Architecture of Reality by Michael Benedikt
- Delirious New York by Rem Koolhaas
- In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
- The Question Concerning Technology by Martin Heidegger
Dennis Haskell, FAIA
- Space Time & Architecture by Sigfried Gideon
- Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown, Steven Izenour
- Architecture Without Architects by Bernard Rudofsky
- Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher Alexander
- Townscape by Gordon Cullen
- Architecture of Towns & Cities by Paul Spreiregen