12 Architecture books/publications by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• My Life as An Architect in Tokyo by Kengo Kuma
• Zaha Hadid: The Complete Work by Zaha Hadid
• The Surreal Visions of Hernán Díaz Alonso/HDA-X by Hernán Díaz Alonso
• Architecture by Hiroshi Sugimoto
• Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White by William Sturkey
• The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race by Adrienne Brown
• Black Built: History and Architecture in the Black Community by Paul Wellington
• Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present edited by Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, & Mabel O. Wilson
• In Praise of Shadows by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
• Indigenous architecture through indigenous knowledge : dim sagalts’apkw nisiḿ [together we will build a village] by Patrick Robert Reid Stewart (thesis)
• The First Nations Longhouse : our home away from home by Verna J. Kirkness and Jo-ann Archibald (WorldCat)
• Voices of the Land: Indigenous Design and Planning from the Prairies edited by Reanna Merasty, Naomi Ratte, Desiree Theriault, and Danielle Desjarlais