Read over the break! (+ visit + watch films & documentaries + draw + explore + meet etc.)

But for now, reading recommendations:

architects:

Gordon Cullen, The Concise Townscape (1995)

Peter Eisenman, Diagram Diaries, Eisenman Inside Out: Selected Writings 1963-1988

A. Peter Fawcett, Architecture Design Notebook (2003)

Buckminster Fuller: An Auto-Biographical Monologue/Scenario, Robert Snyder (1980)

Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York, A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (1978)

Gordon Matta-Clark, edited by Corinne Diserens, survey by Thomas Crow - London: Phaidon (2003) 

Frei Otto: complete works : lightweight construction, natural design / Winfried Nerdinger 

Birkhauser, 2005

Bernard Tschumi, Architecture and Disjunctions: Collected Essays 1975-1990, The Manhattan Transcripts

Various, Dictionary of Design and Designers (2003)

Robert Venturi, Learning from Las Vegas (with Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour), Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

Rendow Yee, Architectural Drawing: A visual compendium of types and methods (2007)

theorists and art/architecture historians:

Architectures experimentales, 1950-2000: collection du FRAC Centre / coordination generale, Marie-Ange Brayer -Orleans: Hyx, 2003 

Reyner Banham, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1960); Design by Choice (1982); A Critic Writes (1999)

Beatriz Colomina ed., Sexuality and Space (1992) 

Colin Davies, High-tech architecture, (1988) 

Mike Davis, Beyond Blade Runner: Urban Control, The Ecology of Fear (1992), Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Working Class (2006), Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (2000)

Robert Evans, The Projective Cast (2000)

EH Gombrich, The Uses of Images. Studies in the Social Function of Art and Visual Communication (1997)

Nikolaus Pevsner, The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design (1960)

Simon Sadler , Situationist city

Susan Sontag, On Photography (1977)

Various, Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (2002)

Anthony Vidler, Warped Space (2000)

Paul Virilio, Open Sky (1997)

Tom Wolfe, From our House to Bauhaus (1981)

philosophers:

Gaston Bachelard, Poetics of Space (1958)

Roland Barthes, The Fashion System (1967); Camera Lucida (1981), Empire of signs (1982) 

John Berger, Ways of Seeing (1972)

Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution (1910), Matter and Memory (1911)

Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (1967)
Manuel de Landa

fiction writers:

Jorge Luis Borges, Fictions (and others)

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (2000)

Georges Perec, Species of Spaces (1974)

Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows (1993)

scientists:

Katherine Harmon, Personal Maps and Other Maps of the Imagination (2003)

Edward Tufte, Envisaging Information (1990)

film-makers and photographers:

Robert Elwall, Building with light: international history of architectural photography - London: Merrell 

Fancois Truffaut, A Definitive Study of Hitchcock (1986)

Andreas Gursky: photographs from 1984 to the present / edited by Marie Luise Syring - Art Data, 1998 

Instant Light Tarkovsky Polaroids

READING

Recommended readings for each and everyone of you...:


Pun 
- Olafur Eliasson: Visionary Events, a text by Jonathan Crary
- Architecture from the outside: essays on virtual and real spaces by Elizabeth A. Grosz


Golfe
- New Geographies, text by Stefano Boeri (find it on his website, under TEXT-2008)
- Animate form by Greg Lynn
- Performative architecture, beyond instrumentality by Branko Kolarevic and Ali Malkawi


Ong
- XS: big ideas / small buildings by Phyllis Richardson and Lucas Dietrich (i will bring it to you on Friday)
- the work of the Team EXYZT
- the chapter Social space, collective space from the book Space and the architect by Herman Herztberger


Cherry
- Situationist International (if you want to realize the interesting political implications of a proposal such as yours), read Formulary for a new urbanism, Theory of the derive and Introduction to a critique of urban geography
- Delirious New York: a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas is currently on the reserved self of the 2nd floor of the library (make a copy for yourself)


Fa
- books by Atelier Bow-Wow
- work of Yona Friedman + look at the FRAC Centre Collection (still under construction, but it will be an incredible database)
- Walls of change, an article by Lebbeus Woods


Ton
- Philippe Rahm architects (really explore the projects, graphics and texts!)
- Minimal Art by Daniel Marzona and Uta Grosenick


Geng
- the work of the Team EXYZT
- the work of Patrick Bouchain
- Space and the architect by Herman Herztberger


Eiab
- Thinking Course by Edward de Bono (reference of the great graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister) - a very helpful book for designers
- Space and the architect by Herman Herztberger


Amy
- Olafur Eliasson: Visionary Events, a text by Jonathan Crary
- Thinking Course by Edward de Bono (reference of the great graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister) - a very helpful book for designers
- On Growth and Form by  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson + revisited
- essays by Anthony Vidler, such as Warped Space: Art, Architecture and Anxiety in Modern Culture


Best
- In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki 
- Architecture in the digital age: design and manufacturing by Branko Kolarevic


Enn
- Architecture in the digital age: design and manufacturing by Branko Kolarevic
- Performative architecture, beyond instrumentality by Branko Kolarevic and Ali Malkawi


N
- Boiteaoutils' different posts, under the theme engineering
- Performative architecture, beyond instrumentality by Branko Kolarevic and Ali Malkawi


Shane
- cf. previous email about Zaha Hadid drawings
- From control to design: parametric/algorithmic architecture, published by ACTAR
- Architecture in the digital age: design and manufacturing by Branko Kolarevic
- Animate form by Greg Lynn


Grace
- Gilles Clement,  From the Garden in Motion to the Third Landscape
- James Corner, the concept of Indeterminacy (you can go through this book: Recovering landscape: essays in contemporary landscape architecture and the article Landscape Strategy Now)
- Herzog & De Meuron: natrual history






A lot to read! 
You can look at your friends' recommendations as well. 
Take your time, give yourself chances to understand those texts. 
You are not expected to read them all at once.
Questions are welcomed!