A strategy for bringing in design sources that inform the Newtecnic design process for architecture and engineering

The 17 themes of the design sources follow steps in the process of developing architectural and engineering design designs using a set of interlocking design strategies that address construction and fabrication-related design issues at an early stage. This process allows strategies to be developed in parallel, returning to earlier iterations to inform the design synthesis.

Newtecnic Design Books

Modern Construction Case Studies, Second Edition; Andrew Watts

Modern Construction Case Studies; Andrew Watts

Modern Environmental Design; Andrew Watts

Modern Structural Design; Andrew Watts

Modern Construction Envelopes; Andrew Watts

Facades Technical Review; Andrew Watts

Modern Construction Handbook; Andrew Watts

Design Thinking

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; Creativity

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; Flow

Nigel Cross; Design Thinking

Bryan Lawson; How Designers Think

Peter Rowe; Design Thinking

Tim Brown; Change by Design

Richard Sennett; The Craftsman

Architectural Design

History of architectural modernism

Alan Colquhoun; Modern Architecture

Harry Francis Mallgrave; Modern Architectural Theory

Reyner Banham; Theory and Design in the First Machine Age

Anthony Vidler - Histories of the Immediate Present

Peter Collins; Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture

Kenneth Frampton; The Evolution of 20th Century Architecture

William Curtis; Modern Architecture since 1900

Theory of architectural modernism

Kenneth Frampton; Modern Architecture A Critical History

Alan Colquhoun; Modernity & the Classical Tradition; Architectural Essays

Alan Colquhoun; Collected essays in architectural criticism

Kenneth Frampton; Architecture and the Public World

Kenneth Frampton; Labour, work and architecture

Kenneth Frampton; The Other Modern Movement

Kenneth Frampton; A genealogy of Modern Architecture 1924-2004

Urban design

Kenneth Frampton; Megaform as Urban Landscape

Colin Rowe, Fred Koetter; Collage City

Jonathan F. P. Rose; The Well-Tempered City

Alison Smithson; Team 10 Primer

Edward Glaeser; Triumph of the City

Lewis Mumford; The City in History

Reyner Banham; The New Brutalism; Ethic or Aesthetic

Technical design history

Kenneth Frampton & John Cava; Studies in Tectonic Culture

Reyner Banham; The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment

Edward Ford; The Details of Modern Architecture - Volume 1

Edward Ford; The Details of Modern Architecture - Volume 2

Nikolaus Pevsner; The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design

Nikolaus Pevsner; Pioneers of Modern Design

Lewis Mumford; Technics and Civilisation

Geometry

Geoffrey Broadbent; Design in Architecture

Christopher Alexander, et al; A Pattern Language - Towns, Buildings, Construction

Christopher Alexander; Notes on the Synthesis of Form

Colin Rowe; The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays

Jane Burry & Mark Burry; The New Mathematics of Architecture

Bill Hillier; Space is the Machine; A Configurational Theory of Architecture

Lionel March & Philip Steadman; The Geometry of the Environment

Architectural phenomenology

Juhani Pallasmaa; The Eyes of the Skin

Juhani Pallasmaa; The Thinking Hand

David Leatherbarrow; Architecture Oriented Otherwise

David Leatherbarrow; Uncommon Ground; Architecture, Technology, and Topography

David Leatherbarrow; Topographical stories; studies in landscape and architecture

David Leatherbarrow; Building Time; Architecture, Event, and Experience

Engineering Design

Analysis

Ashby & Jones - Engineering Materials 1

Ashby & Jones - Engineering Materials 2

Baker & Steemers; Energy and Environment in Architecture

Erik K. Antonsson, Jonathan Cagan; Formal Engineering Design Synthesis

Gerhard Pahl, et al; Engineering Design - A Systematic Approach

Nigel Cross; Engineering Design Methods - Strategies for Product Design

W. Eder, S. Hosned; Design Engineering A Manual for Enhanced Creativity

Systems thinking

Peter M. Senge; The Fifth Discipline

Donella H. Meadows; Thinking in Systems

Atul Gawande; The Checklist Manifesto

Cal Newport; Deep Work

Phil Stutz, Barry Michels; The Tools

The Great Mental Models

Matt Ridley; How Innovation Works

Social Commentary

Hannah Arendt; Men in Dark Times

Robert Greene; Mastery

Robert Greene; The Laws of Human Nature

Robert Greene; The 48 Laws of Power

Malcolm Gladwell; David and Goliath

Malcolm Gladwell; Talking to Strangers

Hans Rosling; Factfulness

Contemporary Thought

Multidisciplinary thinking

Martin Heidegger; Basic Writings

Guy Debord; The Society of The Spectacle

Byung-Chul Han; Psycho-politics

Byung-Chul Han; The Transparency Society

Byung-Chul Han, Saving Beauty

Byung-Chul Han; Non-Things

Byung-Chul Han; Absence

Human progress thinking

Yuval, Noah Harari; 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari; Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari; Homo Deus

Steven Pinker; The Blank Slate

Steven Pinker, Rationality

Steven Pinker; Enlightenment Now

Steven Pinker; Better Angels of Our Nature

Interdisciplinary thinking

Hannah Arendt; The Human Condition

Nassim Nicholas Taleb; Antifragile, Things that Gain from Disorder

Nassim Nicholas Taleb; Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb; Skin In The Game

Nassim Nicholas Taleb; The Black Swan

Matt Ridley; Nature via nurture

Matt Ridley; The Evolution of Everything

Modern stoic thinking

William B. Irvine; A Guide to the Good Life

Ryan Holiday; Discipline Is Destiny

Ryan Holiday; Ego Is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday; Stillness Is the Key

Ryan Holiday; The Obstacle Is the Way

Alain de Botton; The Consolations of Philosophy

Alain de Botton; The School of Life, An Emotional Education

Classical thinking

Aristotle; The Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle; Metaphysics

Aristotle, Poetics

Epictetus; Discourses and Selected Writings

Marcus Aurelius; Meditations

Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

Bertrand Russell; History of Western Philosophy

Economic Theory

Eric Beinhocker; The Origin of Wealth

Ian Goldin, Chris Kutarna; Age of Discovery

Jared Diamond; Guns, Germs, and Steel

Niall Ferguson; Civilization

Niall Ferguson; The Ascent of Money

Edmund S. Phelps; Mass Flourishing

Niall Ferguson; The Square and the Tower

Environmental Theory

Mike Berners-Lee; There Is No Planet B

Seth Godin; The Carbon Almanac

Vaclav Smil; Energy and Civilization A History

Vaclav Smil; Growth

Vaclav Smil; Harvesting the Biosphere

Vaclav Smil; How the World Really Works

Vaclav Smil; Numbers Don't Lie

Technology Theory

W. Brian Arthur, The Nature of Technology

Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants

Carl Mitcham; Thinking through Technology

Kevin Kelly; The Inevitable

Bronowski, Jacob; The Ascent of Man

Chris Anderson; Makers, The New Industrial Revolution

Yuval Noah Harari; Nexus

Entrepreneurship Practice

Entrepreneurial process

Harvard Business Review; Entrepreneur's Handbook

Philip Delves Broughton; How to Think Like an Entrepreneur

Chris Zook, James Allen; The Founder's Mentality

Eric Ries; The Lean Startup

Klaus Schwab; Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Scott Belsky; Making Ideas Happen

Scott Belsky; The Messy Middle

Entrepreneurial product

Peter F. Drucker; Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Rick Rubin; The Creative Act, A Way of Being

Steven Johnson; Farsighted

Steven Johnson; Where Good Ideas Come From

Ash Maurya; Scaling Lean

Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits; The Lean Entrepreneur

Donald Miller; Building a Story Brand

Leadership Practice

Harvard Business Review; Leader's Handbook

Edgar H. Schein; Organizational culture and leadership

Josh Kaufman; The Personal MBA

Michael E. Gerber; The E-Myth Revisited

Richard Koch; The 80-20 Manager

Simon Sinek; Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek; Start With Why

Management Practice

Management guides

Harvard Business Review - Manager’s Handbook

Harvard Business Review - Project Management Handbook - Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez

Paul Roberts; The Economist - Guide to Project Management

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Better Business Writing

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Delivering Effective Feedback

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Finance Basics for Managers

Harvard Business Review HBR Guide to Getting the Right Work Done

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Leading Teams

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Making Every Meeting Matter

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Performance Management

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Project Management

Management thinking

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Change Management

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Communication

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Innovation

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Making Smart Decisions

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Managing Across Cultures

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Managing Yourself

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Mental Toughness

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Strategic Marketing

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Strategy

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Teams

Henry Mintzberg; Managing

Thomas DeLong, John Gabarro, Robert Lees; When professionals have to lead

David H. Maister; Managing the professional service firm

Strategy Practice

Seth Godin; This Is Strategy

Seth Godin; The Dip

Seth Godin; The Practice

Seth Godin; The Song of Significance

Seth Godin; Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck

Seth Godin; This Is Marketing

Robert Greene; The 33 Strategies of War

Business Practice

Culture

B Joseph Pine, James H, Gilmore; The Experience Economy

Ben Horowitz; What You Do Is Who You Are

Jeffrey Liker; The Toyota Way to Service Excellence

Simon Sinek; The Infinite Game

John Tennent; The Economist - Guide to Financial Management

Tom Peters; The Excellence Dividend

Tom Peters & Robert Waterman Jr; In Search of Excellence

Competition

Michael E Porter; Creating Shared Value

Joan Magretta; Understanding Michael Porter

Michael E. Porter; Competitive Advantage

Michael E. Porter; On Competition

Peter F. Drucker; The Essential Drucker

Roger Martin; The Design of Business, Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage

G. Richard Shell; Bargaining for Advantage

Innovation Practice

Clayton M. Christensen; The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton M. Christensen; The Innovator's DNA

Clayton M. Christensen; The Innovator's Solution

Furr & Dyer - The Innovator’s Method

Scott D. Anthony; The Little Black Book of Innovation

Tom Kelley; The Art of Innovation

Tom Kelley; The Ten Faces of Innovation

Teamwork Practice

Team conduct

James Clear; Atomic Habits

Susan David; Emotional Agility

Daniel Goleman; Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman; Focus

Charles Duhigg; Smarter Faster Better

Charles Duhigg; The Power of Habit

Matthew Walker; Why We Sleep

Team discipline

Steven Kotler; The Art of Impossible

Adam Grant; Give and Take

Leonard Mlodinow; Elastic

Ray Dalio; Principles

Daniel Levitin; The Changing Mind

Daniel Levitin; The Organized Mind

Greg McKeown; Essentialism

Team productivity

David Allen; Getting Things Done

Thomas M. Sterner; It’s Just a Thought

Adam Grant; Originals

The School of Life, How to Think More Effectively

Adam Grant; Think Again

Jeff Sutherland; Scrum, The art of doing twice the work in half the time

Steven Pressfield; The War of Art

Team leverage

Daniel Kahneman; Thinking, Fast and Slow

Tom Kelley; Creative Confidence

Matthew Crawford; The Case For Working With Your Hands

Daniel H Pink; Drive

Matthew B. Crawford; The World Beyond Your Head

Daniel H Pink; When

Peter Sims; Little Bets