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Jeff Hartnett
Assistant Professor from August 1998 - June 2004 University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Architecture Recommended Reading list for Architecture Students |
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| Pirsig, Robert.Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. New York: Morrow, 1984. | for both its discussion and advocacy of the issue of Quality, and of the need to re-evaluate almost everything about education in general and the unspoken assumptions behind its processes | |
| Quinn,
Daniel. My
Ishmael. New York: Bantam Books, 1997. | for both its ground-shaking questioning of human beings' relationship to their world and the argument's implications for issues such as sustainability, growth, civilization, and design | |
| Sambhava, Sambhava. The Tibetan book of the dead: the great book of natural liberation through understanding in the between. New York: Bantam Books, 1993. | for reminding us of the ultimate reality of the physical being temporary and the spiritual being (at least potentially more) lasting | |
| Benedikt, Michael. For an architecture of reality. New York: Lumen Books, 1987. | for
both its pithy and penetrating analysis of the contemporary architectural
condition and its positive suggestions for specific "qualities and
characteristics" to make things better | |
| Venturi, Robert. Denise Scott Brown, And Steven Izenour. Learning from Las Vegas. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, various editions | for
both its verbal and visual analysis of archetypal American suburban-urbanity
and, simply, because you now live in Vegas and you've got to understand
your local condition as well as you can, and this is a place to start! | |
| Dillard, Anne. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Toronto ; New York: Bantam Books, 1975. | for
both it exemplifying and celebrating a human being's complete fascination
with nature and the physical world which she inhabits, and in finding great
importance in the real and often little things inhabiting that local world | |