Four eminent commentators on architecture, N.R. Khan , M. Anwar Riyaad, Sujaul Islam Khan & Ashik Vaskor , have given their opinions on the books that should be on every architect's reading list. Their suggested list includes Monographs, Theories on Architecture, Biographies and Works of Architects, Narratives, Edited volumes etc. Curious reader can find many of these books available online to read or download.
Despite genuine interest , Architects, overloaded with projects, often don’t make time to read. Hence in most cases the wish list is getting much longer than the list of books they have read . There is also an issue of figuring out what book genre fits them best. Perhaps there are many resourceful sites that provide detail insights and review on the seminal literature on architecture and related discourses. Our intention is rather humble – to make a list of good reads for the architects and students of architecture in general that offers more than anything one can find in textbooks or handbooks. Perhaps today’s generation have grown up communicating visually and lacks the reading habit. This is also an attempt to get them back on track.
Essential Reads : Suggested by Architect N.R.Khan
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Theorizing a new agenda for Architecture_Kate ed. Nesbitt
Theories and manifestos of 29th century Architecture_Charles Jencks , Karl Kropf (Editor)
Towards a New Architecture_Le Corbusier
Architecture in Transition_Constantinos A. Doxiadis
Architecture and Disjunction_Bernard Tschumi
Architecture of the jumping universe_Charles Jencks
The Seven Lamps of Architecture_John Ruskin
Rethinking Architecture: A reader in cultural theory_Neil Leach
Intentions in Architecture_Christian Norberg-Schulz
The Anaesthetics of Architecture_Neil Leach
(Additional Readings)
Louis I Kahn : Essential Texts _ Louis I Kahn ;
[Re] Reading Perspecta : The First 50 years of the Yale Architectural Journal_Robert A. M. Stern, Peggy Deamer and Alan Plattus(editors)
Essential Reads : Suggested by Mahmudul Anwar Riyaad
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Towards a New Architecture_Le Corbusier
Theory and Design in the first machine Age_Reyner Bnham
Modern Architecture_Jr. Scully Vincent
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture_Robert Venturi
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses_Juhani Pallas
The Death and Life of Great American Cities_Jane Jacobs
Studies in Tectonic Culture: The poetics in construction in Nineteen and Twentieth Century Architecture_Kennth Frampton & John Cava
Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology in Architecture_Christian Norberg – Schulz
Silence and Light_Louis I Kahn and John Lobell
A place in the shade: the new landscape & other essays_Charles Correa
Essential Reads : Suggested by Sujaul Islam Khan
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Between Silence and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn_Louis I Kahn and John Lobell
Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms_William J.R. Curtis
Architecture and Disjunction_Bernard Tschumi
Design with Nature_Ian Mcharg
Modern Architecture Since 1900_William J.R. Curtis
Modern Architecture a Critical History_Kenneth Frampton
Renzo Piano Logbook
Louis I Kahn Complete works 1935-1974_Bonner, Zhaveri
Alvar Aalto_Karl Flieg
Tadao Ando_Francesco Dal Co
Essential Reads : Suggested by Ashik Vaskor
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A pattern language: Town Building construction_Christopher W. Alexander
Towards a New Architecture_Le Corbusier
Architecture : Form , Space and Order_Francis D. K. Ching
Between Silence and Light_Louis I Kahn and John Lobell
Beginning: Louis I. Kahn’s Philosophy of Architecture_Alexandra Tyng
Delirious New York_Rem Koolhass
Modern Architecture Since 1900_William J.R. Curtis
Modern Architecture: A Critical History_Kenneth Frampton
The New Landscape_Charles Correa
Rethinking Architecture, A Reader in Cultural Theory_Neil Leach
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