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I'm either working my way through these books, refer to them often, or am looking out for them at used bookstores and for cheap. Some are just authors or subject matter that I'm trying to track down. Most of these readings have to do with the everyday spaces project.
please contact me to recommend further books, articles, etc!
also there's a "readings" category on the updates page, with whatever I'm actually reading at various moments...
general
Alexander, Christopher et al. -- A Pattern Language
Alexander, Christopher et al. -- The Timeless Way of Building
Wright, Frank Lloyd -- The Natural House
Pearman, Hugh -- Not Building: The Lure of Desolation
Kunstler -- Road to Nowhere, Home From Nowhere
Brand, Stuart -- How Buildings Learn
mysticism, the idea of the house
Bachelard, Gaston -- The Poetics of Space
Harbison, Robert -- Eccentric Spaces (I'm struggling with this one)
Nearing, Scott and Helen -- The Good Life
Heidegger, Martin — Dwelling
history of form, inside and outside, lots about windows
Venturi, Robert -- Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
process, form, drawing
Evans, Robin -- Translations From Drawing to Building
Evans, Robin -- The Projective Cast
materials
Siegfried Giedion -- analysis and tracing of the balloon frame structure
Elliott, Cecil D. -- Technics and Architecture: The Development of Materials and Systems for Buildings
kitchen -- ideal and function
Van Rensselaer, Martha and Julia Rose -- Saving Steps
(Cornell University home economics dept. pamphlet on kitchen efficiency, 1800s)
Beecher, Catherine -- the kitchen as spiritual center of the home
Cromley, Elizabeth -- architectural historian interested in kitchens
Horwitz, Jamie (Jane?) -- environmental psychologist
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs -- women, children, and family life
german/Bauhaus research on kitchen efficiency
perspectival control of space, spatial hierarchies, power asserted through space
asymmetricality in plan
...obviously there are more! I forget to add things to this page...
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