As architects, designers or writers, we intend to read as many books as possible to help us grow and learn. While some books are intended for the mind, you will…
“User friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play” – A Book Review Authors: Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant The “User Friendly”…
Throughout their professional practices, architects are armoured with several essential skills and tools. To refresh their minds and be in line with innovations and the latest trends, architects rely on…
Francis D.K. Ching’s “A Global History of Architecture” combines Mark M. Jarzombek, and Vikramaditya Prakash, and offers an outstanding overview of architectural history from ancient civilizations in various cultures including…
The Language of Architecture 26 Principles Every Architect Should Know by Andrea Simitch and Val Warke is a book with 26 Topics with separate representations that describe the design and…
“How to cultivate living, playing, engagement, and creation in the world of our children and young people is at the heart of this book” – Heidi Hayes Jacobs The fascinating…
The Production of Space was written by French philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre in 1974. In this book, Lefebvre seeks to bridge the gap between the realms of theory and…
‘The Concise Townscape’ by British architect Gordon Cullen is a groundbreaking work in the field of urban design. The book introduced the idea of ‘townscape’ and threw light on the…
Soak’s Setting The vibrant metropolis of Mumbai, India, is brimming with energy, aspiration, and ambitions. It is a metropolis that is oddly at odds with its surroundings, though. In their…
Earning his Doctor of Letters in 1927 from Sorbonne, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard studied the intersection of science and philosophy. He was born into a shoemaker family and worked his…
(Warning: Minor spoilers regarding structure and certain themes of the book) Jiat-Hwee Chang, an architectural historian, discusses the notion of tropicality in ‘Genealogy of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Networks, Nature and…
William J. Mitchell’s City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn, originally published in 1995, resembles a relic of early cyberculture scholarship, oscillating between visionary insight and embarrassing naiveté. As…