Recommended Reading

The KSA faculty have created a list of recommended reading. Over the next few years, these books are a few of many that you might want to add to your personal library. These books are recommended to enhance your knowledge and understanding of the professions of architecture and landscape architecture. (This is not required and by no means are you expected to read any or all of these books before school begins.)

Overviews & Design
Form, Space, & Order by Francis D. Ching
Publisher: Wiley, 3rd edition (June 29, 2007) – this is an excellent basic design primer for both architecture and landscape architecture.

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough
Publisher: North Point Press; 1st edition (April 22, 2002) - a fascinating discussion of today’s challenges and opportunities in how and why we design.

Fiction
The Spire by William Golding
The Master Builder by Henrich Ibsen
Mr. Palomar and Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Architecture & Landscape Architecture
Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture: A Visual Introduction by Catherine Dee
Publisher: Spon Press (November 9, 2001) – an introduction to design of the landscape.

Sources of Architectural Form: A Critical History by Mark Gelerntner
Publisher: Manchester University Press (June 15, 1995) – a general historical survey.

Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (November 1, 2001) – a general historical survey.

Large Parks Czerniak and Hargreaves, eds.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press (2007) – essays on contemporary landscape theory and practice.

Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories and Strategies Burns and Kahn, eds.
Publisher: Routledge (2005) – essays on theoretical discourse involving, sites and buildings and cities.

From Our Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe
[1981] (New York: Bantam, 1999). - This book is a concise account of the emergence of modern architecture in the United States, useful for coverage of the major moments and key architects of the twentieth century.

Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas
[1978] (New York: The Monacelli Press, 1997). - Interesting on the subject of Manhattan, but also note “Appendix: A Fictional Conclusion” which transforms the research of the book into a series of mythical design proposals.

Have you read any of these books previously? If so, what did you think? Have you read any other books that have been helpful in enhancing your knowledge of architecture or landscape architecture?