We recommend you read at least one of the following before coming to interview:
- Bo Bardi, L., Stones against Diamonds, AA publications
- Moore, R., Why we build, Picador
- Pallasmaa, J., The Eyes of the Skin, Wiley
- Perec, G., Species of Space and Other Pieces, Penguin
- Rasmussen, S.E., Experiencing Architecture, MIT
- Till, J, Architecture Depends, MIT press
You also might find one or more of the following inspiring:
Fiction
- Calvino, I,. Invisible Cities, Vintage Classics
- Schultz, B., Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories, Penguin
- Sebald, W.G., Austerlitz, Penguin
- Achebe, C., Things fall apart, Penguin
- Ali, M., Brick Lane, Black Swan
- Ngozi Adichie, C, Half of a Yellow Sun
The ecological horizons of architecture
- Berners-Lee, M.,There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years,CUP
- Brand, S., How buildings learn: What happens after they’re built, Penguin
- Cowen, R., Common Ground, Windmill
- Cramer, D., The Narrow Edge, Yale
- Diamond, J., Collapse: How societies choose or fail to survive, Penguin
- Hagan, S., Ecological Urbanism: The Nature Of The City, Routledge.
- Macfarlane, R., Underland, Penguin,
- Schneider, T., Nishat, A. and Till, J., Spatial agency: other ways of doing architecture, Routledge
- Steel, C., Hungry City, Vintage
- Tree, I., Wilding: The return of nature to a British farm, Picador
Planning, drawing and making architecture
- Blokland, T, Community as urban practice, Polity Press
- Coates, N., Narrative Architecture, Wiley
- Cook, P. Drawing: The Motive Force of Architecture, Wiley
- Dernie, D., Material Imagination in Architecture, Routledge
- Jacobs, J. The Death and Life Of Great American Cities, Random House
- Francis Kéré, Radically simple, Hatje Kantz
- Parry, E., Context: Architecture and the Genius of Place, Wiley
- Minton, A., Ground Control: Fear and happiness in the twenty-first-century city, Penguin
- Hatherly, O., A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Verso
- Mc Guirk J., Radical Cities: Across Latin America in search of a New Architecture, Verso
- Simone A. and Pieterse E., New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times, Polity Press
- Tonkiss, F., Cities by Design: the Social Life of Urban Form , Polity Press
Introductions to modern architecture
- Curtis, W., Modern Architecture since 1900, Phaidon
- Frampton, K., Modern Architecture, A Critical History, Thaes and Hudson
- Hernandez, F., Beyond Modernist Masters: Contemporary architecture in Latin America, Birkhäuser
You might also enjoy looking at some of these websites:
Or some of these articles/podcasts/videos:
- An article about the making of a brick house in Argentina
- People fixing the world
- Theo Jansen’s beach creatures
- Traditional Japanese carpentry skills
- A house/cultural centre on the Chilean coast , as described by its architects, pezo von ellrichshausen
- An introdcution to the process of making Lina Bo Bardi’s SESC Pompeia
- Diébédo Francis Kéré: How to build with clay... and community. To see more of his practice’s projects visit http://www.kere-architecture.com
- Wendy Pullan talking at the BSR, Rome on: Justice as everyday life: urban conflict and civic space
- Article on the work of Anupama Kundoo, including the handmade wall house featured at the 2013 Venice Biennale
