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My Essential Library

The books in my library provide context to my work. I've distilled my favorites and organized them into thirteen different themes.

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​Themes:

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Fundamentals: 

Inspiration + Theory: 

Reference: 

Architecture: 

Interior Design: 

Estimating + Project Management: 

Audio Recording: 

General History: 

First World War: 

Russian Revolution: 

Second World War: 

Holocaust: 

(bonus) Personal + Professional Growth: 

Fundamentals

  • Hal Box | Think Like An Architect

  • Matthew Frederick | 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

  • Susie Hodge | The Short Story of Architecture

Inspiration + Theory

  • Fred Rush | On Architecture: Thinking In Action

Reference

  • The American Institute of Architects | The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice: Student Edition (Thirteenth Edition)

  • Francisco Asensio Cerver | Interior Design Atlas

  • Julia McMorrough | The Architecture Reference + Specification Book: Everything Architects Need to Know Every Day

  • William P. Spence, Eva Kultermann | Construction Materials, Methods, and Techniques: Building for a Sustainable Future (Third Edition)

Architecture

  • Kenneth Frampton | Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Fourth Edition)

  • Ezra Stoller | Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater

  • Philip Wilkinson | LEGO Architecture: The Visual Guide

Interior Design

  • Charlotte & Peter Fiell | Scandinavian Design

Estimating + Project Management

  • Swanke Hayden Connell Architects | Historic Preservation: Project Planning & Estimating

Audio Recording

  • Bruce and Jenny Bartlett | Practical Recording Techniques: The Step-by-Step Approach to Professional Audio Recording (Sixth Edition)

General History

  • Will and Ariel Durant | The Lessons of History

First World War

  • Prit Buttar | Germany Ascendant: The Eastern Front 1915

  • Prit Buttar | The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917-21

  • Michael Digby | Burn, Bomb, Destroy: The German Sabotage Campaign in North American 1914–1917

  • Andrew Lucas & Jürgen Schmieschek | Fighting the Kaiser's War: The Saxons in Flanders 1914/1918

  • Francis A. March | History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of The World's Greatest War

  • S.L.A. Marshall | World War I

  • W. Scott Poole | Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror

  • Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson | The First World War

  • Manfred von Richthofen | The Red Air Fighter

  • Peter Simkins, Geoffrey Jukes, & Michael Hickey | The First World War: The War to End All Wars

  • Norman Stone | World War One: A Short History

  • Hew Strachan | The First World War Volume I: To Arms

  • Graydon A. Tunstall | Blood on the Snow: The Carpathian Winter War of 1915

Russian Revolution

  • China Miéville | October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

  • Robert L. Willett | Russian Sideshow: America's Undeclared War 1918–1920

Second World War

  • Larry Alexander | Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers

  • Stephen E. Ambrose | Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

  • Stephen E. Ambrose | Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany June 7, 1944–May 7, 1945

  • John W. Dower | War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War

  • Alex Kershaw | The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon

Holocaust

  • Michael Berenbaum and Abraham J. Peck | The Holocaust and History: The Known, The Unknown, The Disputed, and The Reexamined

  • Doris L. Bergen | The Holocaust: A Concise History

  • Richard Breitman, Allan J. Lightman | FDR and the Jews

  • Christopher R. Browning | Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

  • Yaffa Eliach | There Once Was A World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok

  • The Dachau Concentration Camp, 1933 to 1945

  • The Holocaust Chronicle: A History in Words and Pictures

Personal + Professional Growth

  • Christopher Folkens | Directing Your Debut: How to Hack Your Mindset to Direct A Badass First Film (Short, Feature, or Anything in Between)

  • Dave Johnson | A Guide to A Good Life

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