Recommended Reading
The following is a selection of books and publications that are related to the Art of Diversion ethos.
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein (1977)
Archisculpture by Beomsik Won (2015)
Architecture after Modernism by Diane Ghirardo (1996)
The Architecture Of Happiness by Alain de Botton (2014)
Art As Therapy by Alain de Botton (2016)
Art Is The Highest Form Of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists by Phaidon Editors (2016)
Building for Change: The Architecture of Creative Reuse by Dr. Ruth Lang (2022)
The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan: Discover the Joy of Spending Less, Sharing More, and Living Generously by Liesl Clark and Rebecca Rockefeller (2020)
Cornelia Parker by Andrea Schlieker (2022)
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart (2008)
Eight Strategies for Circular Design by Peter van Assche, Dillon Pranger and Cornell AAP Faculty
Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour (1972)
Make It Last by Earl Proulx (1996)
Manual of Recycling - Buildings as Sources of Materials by Annette Hillebrandt, Petra Riegler-Floors, Anja Rosen and Johanna-Katharina Seggewies (2020)
Modern Architecture: A Critical History by Kenneth Frampton (1980)
Museum Architecture by Justin Henderson (1998)
Green Ideas Slipcase by Penguin (2021)
Phyllida Barlow: Collected Lectures, Writings and Interviews by Sara Harrison (Editor), Phyllida Barlow, Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Mark Godfrey (2021)
Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture by Ulrich Conrads (1975)
Reclaimed Wood: A Field Guide by Klaas Armster and Alan Solomon (2019)
Reclaimed: New Homes From Old Materials by Penny Craswell (2022)
Renovate Innovate: Reclaimed and Upcycled Homes by Antonia Edwards (2017)
Repurposed: New Zealand Homes Using Upcycled Materials and Spaces by Catherine Foster (2018)
Solution by Anders Lendager and Esben Pedersen (2021)
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck (2010)
Aesthetic Understanding: Essays in the Philosophy of Art and Culture by Roger Scruton (1998)
The Aesthetics of Architecture by Roger Scruton (2013)
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry and Norman Wirzba (Editor) (2003)
The Australian Ugliness by Robin Boyd (2012, first published 1960)
Built, the Unbuilt and the Unbuildable: In Pursuit of Architectural Meaning by Robert Harbison (1993)
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs (1992, first published 1961)
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler (1994)
The Materials Book by Ilka and Andreas Ruby (Editors) (2020)
The Sense of Sight by John Berger (1993)
The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life by Richard Sennett (2021, first published 1970)
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry (2018)
Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier (1985, first published 1923)
UnDoing Buildings: Adaptive Reuse and Cultural Memory by Sally Stone (2019)
Upcyclist: Reclaimed and Remade Furniture, Lighting and Interiors by Antonia Edwards (2015)
Wasted: How We Squander Time, Money, and Natural Resources - and What We Can Do About It by Scott Hoffman and Byron Reese (2021)
Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure by Katie Treggiden (2020)
Ways of Seeing by John Berger (2009)
Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities by Alexandra Lange (2012)