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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