A selection of texts I use in teaching and research, organized by theme:
DESIGN THEORY AND PRACTICE “Architectural Practice Now.” Harvard Design Magazine Vol. 32 (Spring/Summer 2010): 28-43. Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” In Illuminations. New York: Schocken Books, 1969. Bierig, Aleksandr. “The High Line and Other Myths.” Log 18 (Winter 2010): 129-134. Bhatia, Neeraj and Mary Casper, eds. The Petropolis of Tomorrow. New York: Actar D, 2013. Brown, Adrienne. “Architectures of Habit.” Dimensions of Citizenship website, 2018. Corner, James. Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999. De Graaf, Reinier. “Charisma Allows the Architect to Speak with Authority, Even When He Has No Clue.” Dezeen, 29 Sept. 2015. Deamer, Peggy. “The Changing Nature of Architectural Work.” Harvard Design Magazine Iss. 33 (Fall/Winter 2010-2011): 70-75. Dunn, Keefer. “Against Employability.” RM 1000 Iss. 6 (2018): 117-124. Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991. Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Judgement. Trans. Werner S. Pluhar. Indianapolis; Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 1987. Koolhaas, Rem. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Koolhaas, Rem and Bruce Mau, et. al. S, M, L, XL. New York: Monacelli Press, 1995. Mostafavi, Mohsen. “Why Ecological Urbanism? Why Now?” Harvard Design Magazine Iss. 32 (Spring/Summer 2010): 124-135. Rock, Michael. “The Accidental Power of Design.” T Magazine (15 Sept. 2016). Shafer, Ashley and Amanda Reeser. “After-Thoughts.” Praxis 5 (2003): 4-5. Waldheim, Charles. Landscape as Urbanism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Weizman, Ines. “Dissidence Through Architecture.” Perspecta Vol. 45 (2012): 27-38.
ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE Damodaran, Vinita et al., eds. The East India Company and the Natural World. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Ghosh, Amitav. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Kyoto Protocol (United Nations, 1997). Laudato Si (The Vatican, 24 May 2015). Lewis, Simon L. and Mark A. Maslin. The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene. London: Penguin, 2018. Margolin, Jamie. “I’m Not Only Striking for the Climate.” The New York Times, 20 Sept. 2019. Paris Agreement (United Nations, 2015).
FICTION AND DRAMA Smith, Zadie. White Teeth. New York: Random House, 2000. Stoppard, Tom. Arcadia. London: Faber and Faber, 1993.
HISTORY AND ECONOMICS Beckert, Sven. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Vintage Books, 2014. Fanon, Franz. The Wretched of the Earth. Trans. Constance Farrington. New York: Grove Press, 1968. Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1979. Gilroy, Paul. Postcolonial Melancholia. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Go, Julian. Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Harvey, David. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Oxford: Blackwell 1989. King, Martin Luther, Jr. Letter From Birmingham City Jail. Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, 1963. Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2003. Loomba, Ania. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. Abingdon: Routledge, 1998. Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Trans. Ben Fowkes and Ernest Mandel. London: Penguin Books, 1990. Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. Riello, Giorgio and Tirthankar Roy. How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500–1850. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2013. Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books, 1979. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
URBANISM AND GLOBALIZATION Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991. Harvey, David. Social Justice and the City. London: Edward Arnold, 1973. Hunt, Tristram. Cities of Empire: The British Colonies and the Creation of the Urban World. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014. Khanna, Parag. Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization. New York: Random House, 2016. Mehta, Suketu. Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Sassen, Saskia. Cities in a World Economy. Thousand Oaks CA: Pine Forge Press, 1994. Sassen, Saskia. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. 2nd ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
VISUAL REPRESENTATION Corner, James and Alex MacLean. Taking Measures Across the American Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Mathur, Anuradha and Dilip da Cunha. Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Mathur, Anuradha and Dilip da Cunha. SOAK: Mumbai in Estuary. New Delhi: Rupa and Company, 2009. Tschumi, Bernard. The Manhattan Transcripts. London: Academy Editions, 1994. Waldheim, Charles and Andrea Hansen, eds. Composite Landscapes: Photomontage and Landscape Architecture. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Catz Verlag, 2014.