architecture books worth reading

Hi all,

below is a list of some books worth reading, it is but a start. With the mid semester break coming up here is a chance to read a couple of the books / look at the pictures. It will help.

GRAPHICS and REPRESENTATION
Form Space & Order (Francis Ching)
Architectural Graphics (Francis Ching)
Graphic Thinking for Architects and Designers (Laseau)
Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings (Pfeiffer)

HISTORY
Art Through the Ages (Gardiner)
Description de L'egypte
Edifices of Rome
Antiquities of Athens

ARCHITECTURE AS AN EXPERIENCE
Between Silence and Light (Louis Kahn, Lobell)
Experiencing Architecture (Rasmussen)

ANALYSIS OF ARCHITECTURE
Materials Form and Architecture (Weston)
The Wright Space (Hildebrand)
Studies in Tectonic Culture (Frampton)
Raumplan Versus Plan Libre (Rizzoli)

ARCHITECTS
Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large (OMA)
Alvar Aalto (Weston)
Utzon (Weston)
Le Corbusier Ideas and Forms (Curtis)
Farmax (MVRDV)

CONSTRUCTION AND ENVIRONMENT
Building Your Own Home (Wilkie)
Warm House Cool House (Hollo)
Sustainable House (Mobbs)

That should keep you busy

hypothesis

Sigmund Freud
- the connection and fluidity of the natural and the built environment effect the human condition
- look deeper into the human mind and test the unconsciousness and mechanism of repression based on a thousand experiments
- freud would feel within his element when placed within a structure with a copious amount of illusions
- the more intense the colour of a stimulus, the more intense the emotional response
- special forms will drastically influence the psychology of both extrovert and introvert

Issac Newtown
- humans are full of ideas, all we need is enlightenment to make them possible
- the higher the altitude, the lower the effects of gravity
- inspired by nature, link it to physics
- newton would be comfortable in a structure that challenges the rules of physics and gravity
- human inspiration is the channel between physical and spiritual realms

Maria Agnesi
- maria would like to inhabit a structure that incorporates complex geometric structures developed from mathematical solutions
- discussed the curve known as the 'witch of Agnesi' in 1748 - to achieve a perfect aesthetic, numbers are irrelevant
- even the most complicated geometrical shapes and architecture starts with the simplest mathematical formulas
- numbers are a basis for deeper symbolic meaning

websites worth looking at

Hi all, the list to the right titled 'websites worth looking at' contains links to architectural offices own websites, or websites that have works of various architects around the globe take the tine to have a look through them, apart from looking in books and magazines the internet is your next best source for discovering architecture you hard never thought possible enjoy