Artists and curators taking part in Drawing Room’s exhibition programme are invited to compile ‘reading lists’ that inform and expand the themes explored in their work. This list has been compiled by artists included in UNBUILD: a site of possibility which considers the impact of buildings on our bodies, our minds, our memories and our dreams. The selected artists use expanded forms of drawing to explore how the built environment represents our dreams and aspirations, cultural and physical displacement and the inequities of our patriarchal society. Titles marked with an asterisk * are held in Outset Study.
Click here to download a PDF of the Reading Lists.
| Title | Author | Selected by |
|---|---|---|
| Frequently Asked White Questions | Ajay Parasram and Alex Khasnabish | Jessie Brennan |
| Art Activism for an Anti-Colonial Future | Carlos Garrido Castellano | Jessie Brennan |
| In the Wake: On Blackness and Being | Christina Sharpe | Jessie Brennan |
| On Whiteness: The Racial Imaginary Institute | Claudia Rankine | Jessie Brennan |
| At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies | Dougald Hine | Jessie Brennan |
| The Future of Whiteness | Linda Martín Alcoff | Jessie Brennan |
| Vistas of Modernity: Decolonial Aesthesis and the End of the Contemporary | Rolando Vázquesz | Jessie Brennan |
| Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism | Vanessa Machado de Oliveira | Jessie Brennan |
| Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future: a conversation with Carlos Garrido Castellano [website] | Carlos Garrido Castellano and Helen Carey | Jessie Brennan |
| Global Citizenship Education Otherwise: Study Guide, working draft, April 2019 [website] | Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Sharon Stein, Rene Suša, Tereza Čajkova, Dani d’Emilia, Elwood Jimmy, Bill Calhoun, Sarah Amsler, Camilla Cardoso, Dino Siwek, Kyra Fay and Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective | Jessie Brennan |
| Developing Stamina for Decolonizing Higher Education: A Workbook for Non-Indigenous People (Version 2.2, March 2021) [website] | By Sharon Stein, Cash Ahenakew, Elwood Jimmy, Vanessa Andreotti, Will Valley, Sarah Amsler, Bill Calhoun and the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective | Jessie Brennan |
| The What if Experiment [website] | Led by Sade Banks-Tubi and Chloe Osborne | Jessie Brennan |
| Yes | Thomas Bernhard | Ian Kiaer |
| Old Masters* | Thomas Bernhard | Ian Kiaer |
| The White Book | Han Kang | Ian Kiaer |
| The siren's song: selected essays | By Maurice Blanchot, edited and with an introduction by Gabriel Josipovici, translated by Sacha Rabinovitch | Ian Kiaer |
| The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems | M. Werner and Jen Bervin | Ian Kiaer |
| Thirteen Ways: Theoretical Investigations in Architecture | Robert Harbison | Ian Kiaer |
| The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses * | Juhani Pallasmaa | Ian Kiaer |
| The Melnikov House, Moscow (1927 – 1929): Konstantin Melnikov | Juhani Pallasmaa | Ian Kiaer |
| The Plague and the Deluge: Paolo Uccello (The body in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism) | Jean Louis Schefer | Ian Kiaer |
| The Cube and the Face, Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti | Georges Didi Huberman | Ian Kiaer |
| Confronting Images: Questioning the Ends of a Certain History of Art | Georges Didi Huberman | Ian Kiaer |
| Gravity and Grace | Simone Weil | Ian Kiaer |
| Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things | Jane Bennett | Ian Kiaer |
| The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins | Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing | Ian Kiaer |
| Endless Kielser | Edited by Klaus Bollinger, Florian Medicus, and the Austrian Frederick and Lilian Kiesler Private Foundation | Ian Kiaer |
| Elastic Architecture: Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture | Stephen Phillips | Ian Kiaer |
| Magic Architecture: The Story of Human Housing | Frederick Kiesler, Edited by Spyros Papapetros and Gerd Zillner | Ian Kiaer |
| Zak Prekop [artist’s book] | Zak Prekop | Tanoa Sasraku |
| Peter Schuyff: Works on paper 1984-2018 | Edoardo Bonaspetti and Richard Hell | Tanoa Sasraku |
| Impure Matter: A Forensics of WTC Dust [book section] | By Susan Schuppli in 'Savage Objects', edited by Godofredo Pereira | Tanoa Sasraku |
| The Man Who Walked Through Walls | Marcel Aymé | Emily Speed |
| Eating Architecture | Jamie Horwitz and Paulette Singley | Emily Speed |
| Making Space: Women and the Man-Made Environment | Matrix | Emily Speed |
| Fragility: To Touch and Be Touched | Marlies De Munck and Pascal Gielen | Emily Speed |
| The Book of the City of Ladies | Christine de Pizan | Emily Speed |
| Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture | Lisa Robertson | Emily Speed |
| Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream | Francesco Colonna | Emily Speed |
| Life Ceremony | Sayaka Murata | Emily Speed |
| Attrib: and other stories | Eley Williams | Emily Speed |
| Clay and lime renders, plasters and paints: A how-to guide to using natural finishes | Adam Weismann and Katy Bryce | Emily Speed |
| The Architectural Model: Histories of the Miniature and the Prototype, the Exemplar and the Muse | Matthew Mindrup | Emily Speed |
| The Architectural Model: Tool, Fetish, Small Utopia | Peter Schmal | Emily Speed |
| The Belly of an Architect [film] | Directed by Peter Greenaway | Emily Speed |
| Exhibition [film] | Directed by Joanna Hogg | Emily Speed |
| The Stone Tape [film] | Directed by Peter Sasdy | Emily Speed |
| The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution | Dan Hicks | Do Ho Suh |
| Who am I? And if so, how many? | Richard David Precht | Do Ho Suh |
| Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings | Alan Lightman | Do Ho Suh |
| Invisible Cities | Italo Calvino | Do Ho Suh |
| The greenhouse at the end of the earth | Cho Yup Kim | Do Ho Suh |
| Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth | R. Buckminster Fuller | Do Ho Suh |
| The Vegetarian | Han Kang | Do Ho Suh |
| Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity | Marc Augé | Do Ho Suh |
| Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence | James Bridle | Do Ho Suh |
| HyperNormalisation [documentary] | Directed by Adam Curtis | Do Ho Suh |
| Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia [exhibition catalogue] | Andrew Blauvelt | Do Ho Suh |
| Believing is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art | Mary-Anne Staniszewski | Do Ho Suh |
| One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity | Miwon Kwon | Do Ho Suh |
| Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architecture of Counterinsurgency | Felicity D. Scott | Do Ho Suh |
| Black Skin, White Masks | Frantz Fanon, translated by Richard Philcox | Do Ho Suh |
| Being Ecological | Timothy Morton | Do Ho Suh |
| Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others | Sara Ahmed | Do Ho Suh |
| The Art-Architecture Complex | Hal Foster | Do Ho Suh |
| Memoirs of the Blind: the self-portrait and other ruins* | Jacques Derrida | Do Ho Suh |
| Xenofeminism | Helen Hester | Do Ho Suh |
| The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins | Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing | Do Ho Suh |
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