60 Books Worth Reading
for Architecture and Non-architecture related







How Luck Happens: Using the Science of Luck to Transform Work, Love, and Life
by Barnaby Marsh, Janice Kaplan








Tools of Titans

by Timothy Ferris




The Art of Good Life

by Rolf Dobelli




Thinking Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman




Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

by Robert M. Pirsig




The Way of Zen

by Alan W. Watts




Delirious New York

by Rem Koolhaas




FOCUS: The Hidden Driver For Excellence

by Daniel Coleman




The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg




The Art of Thinking Clearly

by Rolf Dobelli




The Intelligent Investor

by Benjamin Graham




The Alchemist

by Paolo Coelho




Outwitting The Devil

by Napoleon Hill




Daily Ritual

by Mason Currey




On Chesil Beach

by Ian McEwan




The 4-Hour Work Week

by Timothy Ferris




History of the Concept of Time
by Martin Heidegger




The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture

by Peter Eisenman



The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
by Erving Goffman



Architectural Morphology: An Introduction to the Geometry of Building Plans (Architecture & Design Science)
by Philip Steadman



Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, Second Edition 
by Timothy Crowe



Peter Eisenman's House VI: The Client's Response
by Suzanne Frank



Poetry, Language, Thought (Perennial Classics)
by Martin Heidegger



What Is Called Thinking?
by Martin Heidegger



Supports
by John Habraken



Inquiry by Design: Tools for Environment-Behaviour Research (Environment and Behavior)
by John Zeisel























An Architecture of Complexity
by Lucien Kroll




Articulation
by Hermaan Hertzberger




Event-Cities 3: Concept vs Context vs Content

by Bernard Tschumi




Creating Defensible Space
by Oscar Newman



Problem Seeking
by William Peña and Steven Parshall



House In Motion
by Robert Kronenburg



Architectural Research Methods
by Linda Groat and David Wang



User-Responsive Design
by C.Thomas Mitchell



Lessons For Students of Architecture
by Herman Hertzberger



Point and Line to Plane
by Wassily Kandisky



Archispeaks
by Tom Porter



Event-Cities
by Bernard Tschumi



Design Methods
by Kari Jormakka




Architecture: Form, Space and Order

by Francis D.K. Ching



Genius Loci: Towards A Phenomenology of Architecture
by Christian Norberg Schulz



The Concept of Dwelling
by Christian Norberg-Schulz



Thinking Architecture
by Peter Zumthor



后现代主义建筑二十讲
许力





Zaha Hadid: The Complete Buildings and Projects






The Language of Space
by Bryan Lawson




A New Theory of Urban Design
by Christian Alexender et al.




The Timeless Way of Building
by Christian Alexender



A Pattern Language
by Christopher Alexander et al.



How Designer Think
by Bryan Lawson



What Designers Know
by Bryan Lawson



Ten books on Architecture
by Vitruvius Pollio



Some Place Like Home
by Toby Israel



Being and Time
by Martin Heidegger




Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965 - 1995

by Kate Nesbitt



Tracing Eisenman: Complete Works
by Cynthia Davidson




Design For Human Affair
by C.M. Deasy




Deconstruction
by Christopher Norris




Of Grammatology

by Jacques Derrida




From Tree Dwellings to New Town
by Philip Maguire