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