This Month’s Reading List

Recommended Textbooks, Publications, and Research

Opening eyes to the influence of design in our day-to-day life, Defined by Design, by our own professor Kathryn Anthony, helps readers recognize hidden biases in the products we use and how to work towards more inclusive design.

Controversial for its time, Learning from Las Vegas, written by Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi and Steven Izenour, challenges us to look at the way architects had changed their design processes and the influence of symbolism in architectural design.

TAD (The Journal of Technology | Architecture + Design), founded in part by our own professor Uihlein, explores technology in relationship to architecture and design through research, interviews, articles, and reviews in a rigorously academic journal. Find the journal on TAD’s website, tadjournal.org

In celebration of her would-be 100th birthday, Lina Bo Bardi 100, follows Lina Bo Bardi’s path through design, showcasing her work in the industries of architecture, stage sets, fashion, and furniture.

Intelligent Infrastructures: Zip Cars, Invisible Networks, and Urban Transformations, edited by our own professor T.F.Tierney, takes a look into the transformations urban fabrics are undergoing under the influence of emerging information and communication technologies.

In The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 1960s journalist and activist Jane Jacobs explores the characteristics of successful and failing cities and how they work. Going against the modernist dogma of the era, her words are still relevant today on how to create thriving urban conditions.