Recommended Reading for Would-be Architecture Students

A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander

Design Like you Give a Damn
edited by Architecture for Humanity

Poetics Of Space
Gaston Bachelard

House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski     (Thanks to Corey Foster for this referral!)

Places for the Soul
Christopher Day
 
Eating Architecture
Edited by Jamie Horwitz

The Green Collar Economy
Van Jones

The Castle 
Franz Kafka

Delirious New York
Rem Koolhaas

Film Architecture. From Metropolis to Blade Runner
Edited by Dietrich Neumann

Genius Loci 
Christian Norberg-Schulz

The Architecture of Image. Existential Space in Cinema 
Juhani Pallasmaa

Experiencing Architecture
Steen Eiler Rasmussen

Envisioning Information
Edward Tuffte

Feng Shui: The Chinese Art of Placement
by Sarah Rossbach

Home Sanctuary
by Nicole Marcelis

The Medicine Wheel Garden: Creating Space for Healing, Celebration, and Tranquility
by E. Barrie Kavasch


The Spirit of the Garden
by Shelagh Meagher & John De Visser

Practical Feng Shui: Formulas for Success
Lillian Too


Vaastu
by Richard Craze

The Not So Big House
by Sarah Susanka


Creating the Not So Big House
by Sarah Susanka