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MY ESSENTIAL LIBRARY
The books in my library provide context to my work.
What follows are some of my favorites, categorized into 13 different themes.
Categories:
Fundamentals:
Inspiration + Theory:
Reference:
History:
Architecture:
Interior Design:
Estimating + Project Management:
Audio Recording:
First World War:
Russian Revolution:
Second World War:
Holocaust:
(bonus) Personal + Professional Growth:
FUNDAMENTALS
Box, Hal | Think Like An Architect
Frederick, Matthew | 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
Hodge, Susie | The Short Story of Architecture
INSPIRATION + THEORY
Frampton, Kenneth | Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Fourth Edition)
Rush, Fred | On Architecture: Thinking In Action
REFERENCE
The American Institute of Architects | The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice: Student Edition (Thirteenth Edition)
McMorrough, Julia | The Architecture Reference + Specification Book: Everything Architects Need to Know Every Day
Spence, William P., Eva Kultermann | Construction Materials, Methods, and Techniques: Building for a Sustainable Future (Third Edition)
HISTORY
Droste, Magdalena | Bauhaus
ARCHITECTURE
Reiss, Marcia | Architectural Details
Stoller, Ezra | Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
Wilkinson, Philip | LEGO Architecture: The Visual Guide
INTERIOR DESIGN
Cerver, Francisco Asensio | Interior Design Atlas
Fiell, Charlotte & Peter | Scandinavian Design
ESTIMATING + PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Grandsberg, Douglas D., Calin M. Popescu, Richard C. Ryan | Construction Equipment Management for Engineers, Estimators, and Owners
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects | Historic Preservation: Project Planning & Estimating
AUDIO RECORDING
Bartlett, Bruce and Jenny | Practical Recording Techniques: The Step-by-Step Approach to Professional Audio Recording (Sixth Edition)
FIRST WORLD WAR
Buttar, Prit | Germany Ascendant: The Eastern Front 1915
Butar, Prit | The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917–21
Digby, Michael | Burn, Bomb, Destroy: The German Sabotage Campaign in North American 1914–1917
Lucas, Andrew & Jürgen Schmieschek | Fighting the Kaiser's War: The Saxons in Flanders 1914/1918
March, Francis A. | History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of The World's Greatest War
Marshall, S.L.A. | World War I
Poole, W. Scott | Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
Prior, Robin and Trevor Wilson | The First World War
Richthofen, Manfred von | The Red Air Fighter
Simkins, Peter, Geoffrey Jukes, & Michael Hickey | The First World War: The War to End All Wars
Stone, Norman | World War One: A Short History
Strachan, Hew | The First World War Volume I: To Arms
Tunstall, Graydon A. | Blood on the Snow: The Carpathian Winter War of 1915
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Miéville, China | October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
Willett, Robert L. | Russian Sideshow: America's Undeclared War 1918-1920
SECOND WORLD WAR
Alexander, Larry | Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers
Ambrose, Stephen E. | Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Ambrose, Stephen E. | Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945
Dower, John W. | War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War
Kershaw, Alex | The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon
HOLOCAUST
Berenbaum, Michael and Abraham J. Peck | The Holocaust and History: The Known, The Unknown, The Disputed, and The Reexamined
Bergen, Doris L. | The Holocaust: A Concise History
Breitman, Richard, Allan J. Lightman | FDR and the Jews
Browning, Christopher R. | Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
The Dachau Concentration Camp, 1933 to 1945
Eliach, Yaffa | There Once Was A World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok
The Holocaust Chronicle: A History in Words and Pictures
PERSONAL + PROFESSIONAL GROWTH
Folkens, Christopher | Directing Your Debut: How to Hack Your Mindset to Direct A Badass First Film (Short, Feature, or Anything in Between)
Johnson, Dave | A Guide to A Good Life