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Reading List for Architecture applicants

(Prices shown are full retail price as of Autumn 2019. Some of these books may be
obtainable in local libraries).

We recommend you read at least one of the following before coming to interview:

• Bo Bardi, L., Stones against Diamonds, AA publications, £12.79


• Moore, R., Why we build, Picador, £12.99
• Pallasmaa, J., The Eyes of the Skin, Wiley, £27.47
• Perec, G., Species of Space and Other Pieces, Penguin, £10.99
• Rasmussen, S.E., Experiencing Architecture, MIT £15.62
• Till, J, Architecture Depends, MIT press, £11.78

You also might find one or more of the following inspiring:

Fiction
• Calvino, I,. Invisible Cities, Vintage Classics, £3.85
• Schultz, B., Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories, Penguin, £8.41
• Sebald, W.G., Austerlitz, Penguin, £8.70
• Achebe, C., Things fall apart, Penguin, £6.99
• Ali, M., Brick Lane, Black Swan, £7.37
• Ngozi Adichie, C, Half of a Yellow Sun, £7.99
•
The ecological horizons of architecture
• Berners-Lee, M.,There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years,CUP,
£7.72
• Brand, S., How buildings learn: What happens after they’re built, Penguin £22.97

• Cowen, R., Common Ground, Windmill £7.99


• Cramer, D., The Narrow Edge, Yale £15.32
• Diamond, J., Collapse: How societies choose or fail to survive, Penguin £9.99
• Hagan, S., Ecological Urbanism: The Nature Of The City, Routledge.
• Macfarlane, R., Underland, Penguin, £12.58
• Schneider, T., Nishat, A. and Till, J., Spatial agency: other ways of doing architecture,
Routledge £35.14
• Steel, C., Hungry City, Vintage, £14.94
• Tree, I., Wilding: The return of nature to a British farm, Picador, £8.19

Planning, drawing and making architecture


• Blokland, T, Community as urban practice, Polity Press, £12.07
• Coates, N., Narrative Architecture, Wiley, £32.99
• Cook, P. Drawing: The Motive Force of Architecture, Wiley, £18.66
• Dernie, D., Material Imagination in Architecture, Routledge, £37.99
• Jacobs, J. The Death and Life Of Great American Cities, Random House, £18.50
• Francis Kéré, Radically simple, Hatje Kantz, £22.66
• Parry, E., Context: Architecture and the Genius of Place, Wiley, £30
• Minton, A., Ground Control: Fear and happiness in the twenty-first-century city,
Penguin, £3.32
• Hatherly, O., A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Verso, £9.90
• Mc Guirk J., Radical Cities: Across Latin America in search of a New Architecture,
Verso, £15.28
• Simone A. and Pieterse E., New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times, Polity
Press, £14.89
• Tonkiss, F., Cities by Design: the Social Life of Urban Form , Polity Press,£16.99

Introductions to modern architecture


• Curtis, W., Modern Architecture since 1900, Phaidon, £28.68
• Frampton, K., Modern Architecture, A Critical History, Thaes and Hudson, £10.56
• Hernandez, F., Beyond Modernist Masters: Contemporary architecture in Latin
America, Birkhäuser, £24.57

The following are books written by current members of the Department (this is just for
interest- don’t feel you have to read any of them):

• Brittain-Catlin, T., How to Read a Building, Colins


• Brittain-Catlin, T., The Edwardians and Their Houses, Lund Humphries
• Brittain-Catlin, T., Bleak Houses, MIT
• Brittain-Catlin, T., Leonard Mannasseh and Partners, Twentieth Century Society
• Brittain-Catlin, T., The English Parsonage in the Early 19th Century, Yale
• Brittain-Catlin, T., Churches, Collins
• Campbell, J.W.P., Building St Paul’s, Thames and Hudson
• Campbell, J.W.P., The Library, Thames and Hudson
• Campbell, J.W.P., Brick a World History, Thames and Hudson
• Campbell, J.W.P., and M. Tutton (eds), Staircases, Routledge
• Campbell, J.W.P., and M. Tutton (eds), Doors, Routledge
• Hernandez, F., Bhaba for Architects, Routledge
• Hernandez, F, P.Kellett and L.Allen, Rethinking the Informal City, Berghahan
• Hernandez, F., Beyond Modernist Masters: Contemporary architecture in Latin
America, Birkhäuser, £24.57
• Katz, Irit,et al. Camps Revisted, Rowman and Littlefield
• Schroder, I. and Manual Herz, African Modernism, Park
• Short, C.A., The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture, Routledge
• Short, C.A. et al. Geometry and Atmosphere, Ashgate
• Steane, M.A., The Architecture of Light, Routledge
• Steane, M.A. and Steemers, K., Environmental Diversity in Architecture, Taylor and
Francis
• Steemers, K., Healhty Homes, RIBA
• Steemers, K., Daylight Design in Buildings, Routledge
• Steemers, K., Energy and Enivironment in Architecture, Taylor and Francis
• Sternberg, M., Cistercian Architecture and Medieval Society, Brill
• Sternberg, M., W. Pullan, C. Larkin, L. Kyriacou and M. Dumper, The Struggle for
Jerusalem’s Holy Places, Routledge
• Sternberg, M., and H. Steiner (eds.), Phenomenologies of the City, Ashgate
• Sunikka-Blank, M. and Ray Galvin, A Critical Appraisal of Germany’s Thermal Retrofit
Polic, Springer

You might also enjoy looking at some of these websites:

https://www.urbanista.org

https://www.thenatureofcities.com

https://www.dezeen.com

https://www.archdaily.com

https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org

Ash Amin: ‘Lively infrastructures’ at : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeZervZXxwA:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/environment

Or some of these articles/podcasts/videos:

https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-
69962017000100074&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en (an article about the making of a brick
house in Argentina)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04grdbc/episodes/downloads (people fixing the


world)

https://www.ted.com/talks/theo_jansen_my_creations_a_new_form_of_life?language=en
(Theo Jansen’s beach creatures)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAdUo95ZmGo&vl=en (traditional Japanese carpentry


skills)

https://www.archdaily.com/476/poli-house-pezo-von-ellrichshausen (a house/cultural
centre on the Chilean coast , as described by its architects, pezo von ellrichshausen)

https://linabobarditogether.com/2012/08/03/the-making-of-sesc-pompeia-by-marcelo-
ferraz/ (an introdcution to the process of making Lina Bo Bardi’s SESC Pompeia)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD23gIlr52Y (Diébédo Francis Kéré: How to build with


clay... and community). To see more of his practice’s projects visit http://www.kere-
architecture.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jax5qG8qCx0
(Wendy Pullan talking at the BSR, Rome on: Justice as everyday life: urban conflict and civic
space)

https://www.ft.com/content/8b78bbac-b04e-11e3-8058-00144feab7de
(article on the work of Anupama Kundoo, including the handmade wall house featured at
the 2013 Venice Biennale)

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