/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4260258]

What books would you recommend to an architect?

I don't mean necessarily about groundbreaking perspectives about space, but books that talk about the importance of it, in a honest way.

[Anonymous No.4260259]

Form, Thought, and Execution by Art Vandelay

[Anonymous No.4260261]

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska by Ezra Pound

[Anonymous No.4260263]

Modern disproportion and you by Huges Hack

[Anonymous No.4260266]

uh obviously the fountainhead if you are any kind of intellolberal

[Anonymous No.4260273]

De Re Aedificatoria

[Anonymous No.4260275]

house of leaves

[Anonymous No.4260277]

>>4260258
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

[Anonymous No.4260279]

>>4260259
>>4260261
>>4260263

[Anonymous No.4260281]

> hmm

[Anonymous No.4260283]

>>4260279
What's funny about my Ezra Pound suggestion? There's plenty of meditation on space in it.

[Anonymous No.4260302]

>>4260283

I think Pound would be good to read if you're interested in architecture. You could do some very interesting work comparing structural components in the poems to architectural objects mentioned in them. This would probably require far more time than it's worth though.

There's a line in the Usura Canto about

"no stone marked Adamo me Fecit" or something.

"Adamo me Fecit"=Adam made me=man made me is a perfect tagline for architecture.

[Anonymous No.4260308]

>>4260302
But I mean, nearly the whole of his memoir of H. G-B is composed of a meditation on architectural and sculptural space. Mainly sculptural, but he relates it back to architecture plenty, and sola sculptura is enough to provoke architectural thought.

[Anonymous No.4260309]

Frank Lloydering in the Foyer by Owen Corning

[Anonymous No.4260337]

>>4260275
This OP, you'd get a kick out of it. Architectural horror.

[Anonymous No.4260491]

"Brunelleschi's Dome".
It deals with all the background surrounding the construction of a challenging work of art.
It's an entertaining and insightful read.