Building Bridges, Blurring Boundaries by Sherry Ahrentzen, Carole Despres and Brian Schermer
The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice by AIA
A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
Person Environment Behavior Research by Douglas Amedeo, Reginald Golledge, etc.
Liveable Urban Streets by Donald Appleyard
Sally Augustin
Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
Wisdom Sits in Places by Keith Basso
Expanding Architecture by Bryan Bell
The Big Sort by Bill Bishop
Spaces speak, are you listening? by Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter
Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu
Building Community by Ernest Boyer and Lee Mitgang
The Social Animal by David Brooks
Ten Shades of Green by Peter Buchanan
The Power of Pro Bono by John Cary
See What I Mean: How to use Comics to Communicate Ideas by Kevin Cheng
Clients from Hell: A collection of anonymously-contributed client horror stories from designers by Clients from Hell blog
Clare Cooper Marcus
The Chair by Galen Cranz
"This book is part cultural criticism, part design study, and part celebration of the human body. It offers a new paradigm for thinking about chairs. It is a freewheeling effort to pull together insights from a variety of sources - the humanities, the arts, the physical and social sciences - for the purpose of thinking creatively and imaginatively about how we might want to live. Looking at the chair this way contributes to our understanding of the near environment, that ubiquitous realm that we touch with our bodies. New ideas from the field of ergonomics are changing chair design. Even newer ideas come from holistic health appraoches, which insist that mind and body are one. This study will discuss both." (p. 16)
Architecture: The Story of a Practice by Dana Cuff
The Culture of Building by Howard Davis
Society of the Spectacle Guy Debord
What Americans Build and Why by Ann Devlin
Architects' People by Russell Ellis and Dana Cuff
Black Metropolis by St Claire Drake and Horace Cayton
Senses of Place by Stephen Feld and Keith Basso
Russ Ellis
Hugh Ferris
Tom Fisher
Making Social Science Matter by Bent Flyvbjerg
Buckminster Fuller
Yona Friedman
Reveal by Jeanne Gang
Jan Gehl
Gehry Talks: Architecture + Process by Gehry Partners
Why Architecture Matters by Paul Goldberger
Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You by Sam Gosling
People and Buildings by Robert Gutman and Nathan Glazer
Edward Hall
"it must be impressed upon architects, city planners, and builders that if this country is to avoid catastrophe, we must begin seeing man as an interlocutor with his environment, an environment which these same planners, architects, and builders are now creating with little reference to man's proxemic needs." - p. 6, Hidden Dimension
The Ethical Function of Architecture by Karsten Harries
The Distributed Workplace by Andrew Harrison, Paul Wheeler and Carolyn Whitehead
Scope of Social Architecture by Richard Hatch
The Third Teacher by Inc OWP/P Cannon Design, VS Furniture, Bruce Mau Design
Yes is More by Bjarke Ingels
Tim Ingold
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Louis Kahn
Frankel Kohlman
With People In Mind by Rachel and Stephen Kaplan, and Robert Ryan
Lucien Kroll
Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory by Neil Leach
Writings on Cities by Henri LeFebvre
Joan Littlewood
The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
The Anthropology of Space and Place by Setha Low
Housing as if People Mattered by Clare Cooper Marcus
Judgement Calls in Research by Joseph McGrath
Adolfo Natalini
Brasilia - Chandigarh by Cees Nooteboom
The City by Robert Park & Ernest Burgess
Sarah Pink
Discipline of Architecture by Andrez Piotrowski and Julia Williams Robinson
Andrew Pressman
Cedric Price
Josh Ramos Prince
Amos Rapoport
Experiencing Architecture by Steen Rasmussen
Human Factors in Environmental Design by Ashraf Salama
Dwelling, Place and Environment by David Seamon
Walter Segal
Building Systems: design technology & society by Ryan E. Smith
Architectural Research by James Snyder
Edward Soja
Social Design by Robert Sommer
Design Awareness by Robert Sommer
John Summerson
Not So Big House by Sarah Susanka
The Architecture Reader by A Krista Sykes
Open Space: People Space by Catharine Thompson and Penny Travlou
Bernard Tschumi
Dale Upton
Utopie (1968)
The City by Max Weber
Social Life of Small Urban Spaces by William Whyte
Gwen Wright
Bruno Zevi
Sharon Zukin
