Reading list

Books that have inspired me for this website (in no particular order).





GODEL, ESCHER, BACH: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter.

"In a word, GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter. What is a self, and how can a self come out of stuff that is as selfless as a stone or a puddle?"
  Update: 14/11/2015





URBI ET ORBI by Luc Deleu.
  Update: 05/10/2015





POLYHEDRA by Peter R. Cromwell.
From the library of Wannes Deprez.
  Update: 05/10/2015





ANNE TYNG: INHABITING GEOMETRY by Srdjan Jovanoviç Weiss and Ingrid Schaffner.   Update: 06/10/2015





SITELESS by François Blanciak.   Update: 09/10/2015





ARCHITECTUUR EN KRITIEK VAN DE MODERNITEIT door Hilde Heyen.   Update: 05/10/2015





PERFECT ACTS OF ARCHITECTURE by Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Daniel Libeskind, and Thom Mayne.

"This book presents six series of highly inventive drawings, created between 1972 and 1987 by Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Daniel Libeskind, and Thom Mayne - young architects who went on to establish major international reputations. In the early 1970s, a sluggish world economy had all but curtailed new building, moving the most talented architects into an academic environment."
  Update: 05/10/2015





A SCIENTIFIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Aldo Rossi.   Update: 05/10/2015


Wish list





THE ARCHITECTURE OF COMMUNITY by Leon Krier.
  Update: 03/12/2015





PROJECT JAPAN by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
  Update: 07/11/2015





MELANCHOLY AND ARCHITECTURE by Diogo Seixas Lopes.
  Update: 13/11/2015





REIS NAAR DE NEDERLANDEN by Albrecht Dürer.
  Update: 13/11/2015





ORBAN SPACE by Wouter Davidts and Guy Châtel.
  Update: 13/11/2015


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