Do you hang out with architects? Need a reading list to help you get by at parties? Don your black roll neck jumper and tuck a few of these in your satchel. Here’s the latest update to the chart of most commonly shared books over at the librarything.com group, Architext:
Most commonly shared books (weighted): What is architecture? : an essay on landscapes, buildings, a… by Paul Shepheard (10), Towards a new architecture by Le Corbusier (17), Delirious New York : a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas (14), Complexity and contradiction in architecture by Robert Venturi (12), Small, medium, large, extra-large : Office for Metropolitan … by Rem Koolhaas (13), The image of the city by Kevin Lynch (14), Theory and Design in the First Machine Age by Reyner Banham (9), The poetics of space by Gaston Bachelard (17), Learning from Las Vegas – Revised Edition: The Forgotten Sym… by Robert Venturi (11), Experiencing architecture by Steen Eiler Rasmussen (10)