15 Summer Reads

Over at World-Architects, I put together a list of 15 Summer Reads for the Newsletter I edit there, a newsletter that goes on summer break as of today. In lieu of a review on this blog this week, I'm linking to that summer reading list, which features short, first-hand descriptions of the books. In the coming weeks and months, many of these books will receive longer reviews on this blog.

If you don't feel like clicking over to read my commentary on the books, here are the 15 books, presented from S to XL (counterclockwise from top-left in the image), with links to them on Amazon:

• Vitruvius Without Text: The Biography of a Book by André Tavares
• Formulations: Architecture, Mathematics, Culture by Andrew Witt
• Outdoor Domesticity: On the Relationships between Trees, Architecture, and Inhabitants by Ricardo Devesa
• Densification of Urban Landscapes: Post-War Housing Developments Between Preservation and Renewal by Anke Domschky, Stefan Kurath, Simon Mühlebach and Urs Primas
• Truth and Lies in Architecture bt Richard Francis-Jones 
• Australian Architecture: A History by Davina Jackson 
• Climax Change! How Architecture Must Transform in the Age of Ecological Emergency by Pedro Gadanho 
• Verify in Field: Projects and Conversations, Höweler + Yoon by Eric Höweler and J. Meejin Yoon 
• Between Memory and Invention: My Journey in Architecture by Robert A. M. Stern with Leopoldo Villardi
• DXA NYC: Ten Years of Building on History by DXA Studio (Jordan Rogove and Wayne Norbeck) 
• The Turn of the Century: A Reader about Architecture in Europe 1990–2020 edited by Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch 
• Bamboo Contemporary: Green Houses Around the Globe by William Richards
• AIRES MATEUS Architectural Terrains: Five Investigations by Francisco Aires Mateus and Manuel Aires Mateus 
• 565 Broome SoHo: Renzo Piano Building Workshop edited by Federico Bucci and Mario Piazza with photographs by Evan Joseph 
• The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn edited by Richard Saul Wurman and Eugene Feldman