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151 books across architecture, philosophy, art & systems
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Foundations
How to Read a Book
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
beginner

Foundations
Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
beginner

Foundations
Ways of Seeing
John Berger
beginner

Foundations
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas Hofstadter
intermediate

Foundations
The Art of Looking Sideways
Alan Fletcher
intermediate

Foundations
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
R. Buckminster Fuller
intermediate

Foundations
Finite and Infinite Games
James P. Carse
advanced

Foundations
The Embodied Mind
Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch
advanced

Foundations
How to Solve It
George Pólya
beginner

Foundations
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens
beginner

Foundations
Lateral Thinking
Edward de Bono
beginner

Foundations
The Tacit Dimension
Michael Polanyi
intermediate

Foundations
A Mind for Numbers
Barbara Oakley
beginner

Foundations
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
beginner

Foundations
The Master and His Emissary
Iain McGilchrist
advanced

Foundations
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Richard P. Feynman
beginner

Foundations
Understanding Media
Marshall McLuhan
intermediate

Architecture
Experiencing Architecture
Steen Eiler Rasmussen
beginner

Architecture
The Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard
beginner

Architecture
The Image of the City
Kevin Lynch
beginner

Architecture
How Buildings Learn
Stewart Brand
intermediate

Architecture
A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein
intermediate

Architecture
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Robert Venturi
intermediate

Architecture
The Eyes of the Skin
Juhani Pallasmaa
intermediate

Architecture
Atmospheres
Peter Zumthor
intermediate

Architecture
The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher Alexander
advanced

Architecture
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
Christopher Alexander
advanced

Architecture
S, M, L, XL
Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau
advanced

Architecture
The Nature of Order, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life
Christopher Alexander
advanced

Architecture
The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton
beginner

Architecture
Home: A Short History of an Idea
Witold Rybczynski
beginner

Architecture
Architecture Without Architects
Bernard Rudofsky
beginner

Architecture
The 99% Invisible City
Roman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt
beginner

Architecture
In Praise of Shadows
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
beginner

Architecture
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
beginner

Architecture
Towards a New Architecture
Le Corbusier
intermediate

Architecture
Learning from Las Vegas
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour
intermediate

Architecture
The Architecture of the City
Aldo Rossi
intermediate

Architecture
Modern Architecture: A Critical History
Kenneth Frampton
intermediate

Architecture
Studies in Tectonic Culture
Kenneth Frampton
intermediate

Architecture
Space, Time and Architecture
Sigfried Giedion
intermediate

Architecture
Delirious New York
Rem Koolhaas
intermediate

Architecture
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
Reyner Banham
intermediate

Architecture
Anti-Object
Kengo Kuma
intermediate

Architecture
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers
Leonard Koren
intermediate

Architecture
The Production of Space
Henri Lefebvre
advanced

Architecture
Collage City
Colin Rowe, Fred Koetter
advanced

Architecture
Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays
Robin Evans
advanced

Architecture
The Projective Cast
Robin Evans
advanced

Architecture
The Four Books on Architecture
Andrea Palladio
advanced

Architecture
An Essay on Architecture
Marc-Antoine Laugier
advanced

Architecture
Genius Loci
Christian Norberg-Schulz
advanced

Philosophy
The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
beginner

Philosophy
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
beginner

Philosophy
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
beginner

Philosophy
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Richard Rorty
intermediate

Philosophy
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Karl Popper
intermediate

Philosophy
Representing and Intervening
Ian Hacking
intermediate

Philosophy
After Virtue
Alasdair MacIntyre
intermediate

Philosophy
Reasons and Persons
Derek Parfit
advanced

Philosophy
Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein
advanced

Philosophy
Phenomenology of Perception
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
advanced

Philosophy
The Order of Things
Michel Foucault
advanced

Philosophy
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes
advanced

Philosophy
Republic
Plato
intermediate

Philosophy
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
intermediate

Philosophy
Discourses and Selected Writings
Epictetus
beginner

Philosophy
The Analects
Confucius
beginner

Philosophy
The Complete Works of Zhuangzi
Zhuangzi
intermediate

Philosophy
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
intermediate

Philosophy
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Immanuel Kant
advanced

Philosophy
On the Genealogy of Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche
intermediate

Philosophy
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
beginner

Philosophy
The Ethics of Ambiguity
Simone de Beauvoir
intermediate

Philosophy
Pragmatism
William James
beginner

Philosophy
Art as Experience
John Dewey
intermediate

Philosophy
The Sovereignty of Good
Iris Murdoch
intermediate

Philosophy
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
intermediate

Philosophy
Development as Freedom
Amartya Sen
intermediate

Philosophy
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
Kwame Anthony Appiah
beginner

Philosophy
The Burnout Society
Byung-Chul Han
beginner

Philosophy
Being and Time
Martin Heidegger
advanced

Philosophy
The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt
advanced

Philosophy
Gender Trouble
Judith Butler
advanced

Philosophy
The Fragility of Goodness
Martha Nussbaum
advanced

Philosophy
An Inquiry into the Good
Kitarō Nishida
advanced

Philosophy
The View from Nowhere
Thomas Nagel
intermediate

Art
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Betty Edwards
beginner

Art
The Art Spirit
Robert Henri
beginner

Art
Interaction of Color
Josef Albers
intermediate

Art
Art and Visual Perception
Rudolf Arnheim
intermediate

Art
The Natural Way to Draw
Kimon Nicolaïdes
intermediate

Art
The Elements of Typographic Style
Robert Bringhurst
intermediate

Art
Envisioning Information
Edward R. Tufte
intermediate

Art
Point and Line to Plane
Wassily Kandinsky
advanced

Art
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
advanced

Art
Art and Illusion
E.H. Gombrich
advanced

Art
Vision in Motion
László Moholy-Nagy
advanced

Art
On Photography
Susan Sontag
intermediate

Art
Camera Lucida
Roland Barthes
advanced

Art
The Zen of Seeing
Frederick Franck
beginner

Art
How to See
George Nelson
beginner

Art
A Primer of Visual Literacy
Donis A. Dondis
intermediate

Art
The Elements of Color
Johannes Itten
intermediate

Art
Chromophobia
David Batchelor
intermediate

Art
The Elements of Drawing
John Ruskin
beginner

Art
Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor
Lynda Barry
beginner

Art
What Painting Is
James Elkins
advanced

Art
The Shape of Content
Ben Shahn
intermediate

Art
Design as Art
Bruno Munari
beginner

Art
Thinking with Type
Ellen Lupton
beginner

Art
Grid Systems in Graphic Design
Josef Müller-Brockmann
intermediate

Art
Thoughts on Design
Paul Rand
intermediate

Art
Graphic Design Manual
Armin Hofmann
advanced

Art
On Weaving
Anni Albers
intermediate

Art
The Craftsman
Richard Sennett
advanced

Art
Art & Fear
David Bayles, Ted Orland
beginner

Art
Designing Design
Kenya Hara
intermediate

Human Systems
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Donella H. Meadows
beginner

Human Systems
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
beginner

Human Systems
Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott
beginner

Human Systems
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Erving Goffman
intermediate

Human Systems
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
Albert O. Hirschman
intermediate

Human Systems
Governing the Commons
Elinor Ostrom
intermediate

Human Systems
The Sciences of the Artificial
Herbert A. Simon
intermediate

Human Systems
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
M. Mitchell Waldrop
intermediate

Human Systems
Crowds and Power
Elias Canetti
advanced

Human Systems
The Passions and the Interests
Albert O. Hirschman
advanced

Human Systems
Weapons of the Weak
James C. Scott
advanced

Human Systems
The Economy of Cities
Jane Jacobs
advanced

Human Systems
Scale
Geoffrey West
advanced

Human Systems
The Great Transformation
Karl Polanyi
intermediate

Human Systems
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
intermediate

Human Systems
The Dawn of Everything
David Graeber, David Wengrow
intermediate

Human Systems
Against the Grain
James C. Scott
intermediate

Human Systems
Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Gregory Bateson
advanced

Human Systems
The Practice of Everyday Life
Michel de Certeau
advanced

Human Systems
Connected
Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler
beginner

Human Systems
Small Is Beautiful
E. F. Schumacher
beginner

Human Systems
We Have Never Been Modern
Bruno Latour
advanced

Human Systems
Staying with the Trouble
Donna J. Haraway
advanced

Human Systems
The Real World of Technology
Ursula Franklin
beginner

Human Systems
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
intermediate

Human Systems
The Human Use of Human Beings
Norbert Wiener
intermediate

Human Systems
Technics and Civilization
Lewis Mumford
advanced

Human Systems
The Mathematical Theory of Communication
Claude E. Shannon, Warren Weaver
advanced

Human Systems
Linked
Albert-László Barabási
beginner

Human Systems
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
beginner

Human Systems
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
intermediate

Human Systems
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire
intermediate

Human Systems
The Gift
Marcel Mauss
intermediate