What's Your Favorite Book on Design or Architecture?
Replenish our "to-read" lists with your favorite titles on design or architecture.
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We recently created a roundup of 10 books for the design lover's library, and now we're on the hunt for more recommendations. What must-reads would you suggest for the design community?
Since we love hearing what you think, we’re featuring your top picks here. Take a look below and keep sending us your favorite book titles so that we can add them to the list!
1. Fallingwater: A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House by Edgar Kaufmann Jr.
2. The Voynich Manuscript by Unknown
3. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) by Andy Warhol
5. The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
6. The Wood Book by Romeyn Beck Hough
7. Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams by Klaus Klemp
8. Finn Juhl and His House by Per H. Hansen
9. Wabi Sabi by Leonard Cohen
10. A Patter Language by Christopher Alexander, et. al
11. Minimum by John Pawson
12. A Philosophy of Interior Design by Stanley Abercrombie
13. Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning by Timothy Beatley
14. Handcrafted Modern: At Home with Mid-century Designers by Leslie Williamson
15. The Language of Post Modern Architecture by Charles Jencks
Jenny Xie
Dwell Contributor
Jenny Xie is the author of the novel Holding Pattern, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. She’s received fellowships from Bread Loaf, Yaddo, and MacDowell, among other organizations.
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