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Books like Bauhaus
The best books like Bauhaus are The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, and The Architecture of Happiness. Bauhaus by Magdalena Droste is about design education, modernism, art and industry. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs · Economics
The Death and Life of Great American Cities is Jane Jacobs's 1961 argument against the dominant urban planning orthodoxy of her era, and one of the most influential works of urban theory ever written.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace · Business
Creativity, Inc.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - The Architecture of Happiness
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Alain de Botton · Philosophy
The Architecture of Happiness is Alain de Botton's investigation into why certain buildings make us feel more alive and others leave us deflated.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
Lawrence Weschler · Biography
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees is Lawrence Weschler's extended portrait of Robert Irwin, the California artist who began his career as an abstract expressionist painter and progressively dismantled every element of conventional art-making — frame, canvas, pigment, discrete object — until he was working with pure perception itself.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Just My Type
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Simon Garfield · History
Just My Type is Simon Garfield's popular history of fonts and typography, aimed at general readers who have become dimly aware that fonts matter without having the vocabulary to explain why.
Both dig into craft.
Read the summary → - Meggs' History of Graphic Design
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Meggs' History of Graphic Design
Philip B. Meggs · History
Meggs' History of Graphic Design is the standard reference text for the history of visual communication, covering the development of writing and printed images from prehistoric cave markings through the digital revolution.
Both dig into modernism.
Read the summary → - A Moveable Feast
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Ernest Hemingway · Memoir
A Moveable Feast is Hemingway's posthumously published account of his years in Paris during the 1920s, when he and his first wife Hadley lived cheaply in Montparnasse while he apprenticed himself to the work of becoming a writer.
Both dig into craft.
Read the summary → - A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
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George Saunders · Philosophy
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is George Saunders's account of the graduate fiction workshop he has taught at Syracuse for over twenty years, organized around seven stories by Tolstoy, Chekhov, Turgenev, and Gogol.
Both dig into craft.
Read the summary → - Bird by Bird
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Anne Lamott · Self-help
Bird by Bird is Anne Lamott's guide to writing and the creative life, grown from a course she taught at UC Davis and developed over years of writing novels, essays, and journalism.
Both dig into craft.
Read the summary → - Born Standing Up
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Steve Martin · Memoir
Born Standing Up is Steve Martin's account of the decade-long grind that preceded his sudden, seemingly overnight fame as America's biggest stand-up comedian of the late 1970s.
Both dig into craft.
Read the summary → - Concerning the Spiritual in Art
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Wassily Kandinsky · Philosophy
Wassily Kandinsky's 1911 manifesto is the founding document of abstract art.
Both dig into modernism.
Read the summary → - Interaction of Color
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Josef Albers · Philosophy
Josef Albers published Interaction of Color in 1963 as a teaching instrument, not a textbook.
Both dig into design education.
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Books like Bauhaus: quick answers
What are the best books like Bauhaus?
The best books like Bauhaus by Magdalena Droste are The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace, The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton, Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler, Just My Type by Simon Garfield, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Bauhaus, such as design education, modernism, art and industry.
What should I read after Bauhaus?
A natural next read after Bauhaus is The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs. A kindred history read. Other strong choices are Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace, The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton, Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler.
What books are similar to Bauhaus by Magdalena Droste?
Bauhaus centers on design education, modernism, art and industry. Books with a similar feel include The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace, The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton, Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler, Just My Type by Simon Garfield, Meggs' History of Graphic Design by Philip B. Meggs — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
