Reading

Primer - Peter Cook [720 COO] - often idiosyncratic but a good introduction to the basic concepts in architecture

drawings and sketchbooks:
Drawing: The Motive Force of Architecture - Peter Cook [720.222 COO]
Drawing for Landscape Architecture – Edward Hutchison [712.3 HUT]
Drawing from Life – Jennifer New [760 NEW / online access]
The Drawing Book - Tania Kovats [741 DRA]

thinking about representation and description:
Envisioning Information - Edward Tufte [741.6 TUF]
Michael Webb - Temple Island

inspiring drawings and architecture (see also inspiring links):
Education of an architect : Irwin S.Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union [720.747471 EDU / 720.711747 EDU]
Visionary Architecture - Neil Spiller [720.9045 SPI]

references for Studio Build and Jubilee Line Extension:
The Details of Modern Architecture vol.1 & 2, Edward Ford (MIT Press) [724 FOR]
The Jubilee Line Extension - Kenneth Powell [388.47209421]
Architecture of the Jubilee Line Extension – David Bennett [725.310942 BEN]

reading our site:
Edgelands - Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts [333.730942 FAR]
The Unofficial Countryside - Richard Mabey [333.7616 MAB]
Taking measures across the American landscape - James Corner & Alex MacLean [333.730973 COR]

architecture and landscape:
Landform Architecture: Architecture’s New Terrain – Stan Allen and Marc McQuade
Augmented Landscapes – Smout Allen
East: Expressing Interest [704.944 EAS]

thinking architecture:
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, Georges Perec [844.914 PER]
Immaterial Architecture – Jonathan Hill [720.1 HIL]
Weather Architecture – Jonathan Hill [720.1 HIL]
Cradle to Cradle: Re-Making The Way We Make Things - Michael Braungart & William McDonough [745.2 MCD]
4+1 Peter Salter [720.92 SAL]
This Is What We Do: a muf manual  [720.922 MUF]
Biomimicry in Architecture – Michael Pawlyn   [720.47 PAW]

Venice:
Biennale Architettura 2012: Common Ground [720 VIL]
Villa Frankenstein: the journal of the British Pavilion, 12th International Architecture Exhibition, Volume 1 "Close Looking" and Volume 2 "La Laguna di Venezia"[720 VIL]
Scenes. Studies of architectural space: the campi of Venice - Alban Janson & Thorsten Buerklin [720.94531 JAN]
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino [853.914 CAL]
Swimming at the Querini Stampalia, from Strange Details - Michael Cadwell [724.6 CAD]
Atlante della laguna : Venezia tra terra e mare [912.4531 ATL]


Watching

London – Patrick Keiller (1994)
Wings of Desire – Wim Wenders (1987)
La Jetée – Chris Marker (1962)
Long Good Friday - John Mackenzie (1980)
Dirty Pretty Things - Stephen Frears (2002)
Brazil - Terry Gilliam (1985)
Metropolis - Fritz Lang (1927, restored 2010)
Koyaanisqatsi - Godfrey Reggio (1982)
Don’t Look Now - Nicholas Roeg (1973)
Death In Venice - Visconti (1971)
Powers of Ten - Charles and Ray Eames (1968)