UWSA Faculty Shortlists is an online platform for sharing influential readings related to art, architecture, design, and the cultural realm. The outline is simple: 5 books from each faculty member based on a theme of their personal interest, current research, or books they feel are of high importance to an architectural education.
UWSA FACULTY SHORTLIST_001_DONALD McKAY
Theme: “Five books that made me want to look, and see, and work to understand what I was seeing. I picked each of them because I still re-read them, and still find new things in them. And after decades, each remains in print.”
1. Barthes, Roland. Elements of Semiology. Translated by Annette Lavers. New York: Hill and Wang, 1968.
2. Didion, Joan. The White Album. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.
3. Berger, John. About Looking. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
4. Evans, Walker, and Lincoln Kirstein. American Photographs. 50th-anniversary ed. New York, N.Y.: Museum of Modern Art ;, 1988.
5. Mills, C. Wright. The Sociological Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 1959.
*Note: All above titles are available through the UW library catalogue. Go check them out!
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