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UNPACKING MY LIBRARY is not an exhibition, but merely a list of books reccommended by architects! Be on the lookout for the upcoming months!

Michael Grave Reading List:

1. The Poetics of Space- Gaston Bachlard
2. Vers Une Architecture- Le Corbusier
3. Encyclopedia, Complete Illustrations 1762-1777- Denis Diderot
4. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture- Robert Venturi
5. Recueil Et Parallele des Edifices En Toutgenre, Ancient Modernes- JNL Durand
6. Meditations on a Hobby House- EH Gombrich
7. Edifices Du Rome Moderne- Paul Letarouilly
8. Four Books on Architecture- Andrea Palladio
9. The Architecture of the City- Aldo Rossi
10. The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa- Colin Rowe

Peter Eisenman’s Reading List:

1. The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
2. Vers Une Architecture- Le Corbusier
3. Rememberance of Things Past -Marcel Proust
4. Gravity’s Ranbow -Thomas Pynchon
5. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture -Robert Venturi
6. Delirious New York -Rem Koolhaas
7. Of Grammatology -Jacques Derrida
8. The Four Books of Architecture- Andrea Palladio
9. Illuminations - Benjamin Walter
10. The Finnegans Wake -Joyce James
11. Light in August -William Faulkner

I shall start on the list as soon as I complete my summer reading list!

Hope you all find this useful! Put this on your reading list!