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Welcome to our student staff picks. Former and current student assistants weigh in on the books that they feel to be foundational, thought altering, wish they had read sooner as well as recurring references

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Subjects: Architecture, Humanities, Language, Literature, and Linguistics

Recurring Reference

Ambiguous Territory by Cathryn Dwyre (Editor); Chris Perry (Editor); David Salomon (Editor); Kathy Velikov (Editor); Catherine Ingraham (Foreword by); Peder Anker (Afterword by)
Call Number: NA2543.S6 A43 2022
ISBN: 9781948765657
Publication Date: 2022-08-02
Flesh by Elizabeth Diller; Ricardo Scofidio
Call Number: NA737.D56 A4 1994
ISBN: 1878271377
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Oma Rem Koolhaas by Rem Koolhaas; Arc en Reve Centre d'Architecture Staff; Gila Walker (Translator); Chantal Niebish (Translator); Isolde Schmitt (Translator)
Call Number: NA1153.K64 A4 1998
ISBN: 9780817656386
Publication Date: 1999-01-01

Thought Altering

Mask of Medusa by John Hejduk; Kim Shkapich (Editor); Daniel Libeskind (Introduction by)
Call Number: NA737.H36 A4 1985
ISBN: 9780847805679
Publication Date: 1989-09-15
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
Call Number: GF75 .W36 2019
ISBN: 9780525576709
Publication Date: 2019-02-19

A Foundational Text

The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays by Colin Rowe
Call Number: NA7110 .R68 1976
ISBN: 9780262180771
Publication Date: 1976-12-01
Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments by David Gissen
Call Number: NA2542.35 .G57 2009
ISBN: 9781568987774
Publication Date: 2009-10-07
Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays by Robin Evans
Call Number: NA2700 .E82 1997
ISBN: 9780262550277
Publication Date: 1997-06-06

Earlier Wish

Ecological Urbanism by Harvard University Library Staff (Editor); Gareth Doherty (Editor); Mohsen Mostafavi (Editor)
Call Number: HT241 .E374 2010
ISBN: 9783037781890
Publication Date: 2010-04-01
Queer Space by Aaron Betsky
Call Number: NA2543.H65 B48 1997
ISBN: 9780688143015
Publication Date: 1997-04-01