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!
Carol Kaifosh is masters student at the UWSA, with research interests surrounding the domestic landscape, flexible architecture, and modular furniture.
Leave a Reply