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/ Life: a User’s Manual, George Perec

An obsessive, meticulous inventory. A peculiar set of long, exhaustive descriptions—rooms, corridors, cabinets, dishes, paintings, papers, puzzles. And then more rooms, more closets. It is delightfully too much. A narrative unfolding inside an apartment block. The reader moves through its plan and section, staircases, hallways, attics, basements. Very architectural. And not architectural at all.

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/ Peter Eisenman's House VI: The Client's Response, Suzanne Frank,

A brutally honest book about the client’s struggles with House VI. The double bed split into two parts. Leaks. Protruding beams. Columns that block the way. A beautiful account of all the decisions that were crucial to the project—but not so handy for the people living inside it. Whose side do we take? Just something we deal with daily, when drawing triangular bathrooms and flying kitchens.

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/ On Bramante, Pier Paolo Tamburelli

One of the best books on architecture. Talking about Bramante is more of an excuse—to raise questions on space, form, beauty, and daily production. Written with intelligence, wit, and the kind of unexpected humour Pier Paolo always delivers. Even if Bramante isn’t exactly on our radar, we enjoyed it thoroughly.

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/ Atelier Local, after five years of living

A diary-like account of an architectural practice. A text that honestly rumbles through the intricate process of designing, building, redesigning, rebuilding—in a specific time, in a specific place. Simultaneously concise and precise. It couldn’t be more on point. A text that feels strangely familiar while reading.