Resources

Movies

The Money Pit (1986)
Directed by Richard Benjamin. With Tom Hanks, Shelley Long, Alexander Godunov. A young couple struggles to repair a hopelessly dilapidated house.
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
Directed by HC Potter. With Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas. A man and his wife decide they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It's a lot more trouble than they think.

The Pillars of the Earth is a historical novel by Ken Follett published in 1989 about the building of a cathedral in Kingsbridge, England. It is set in the middle of the 12th century, primarily during the time known as The Anarchy, between the time of the sinking of the White Ship and the murder of Thomas Becket.
Jane Jacobs wrote the seminal book The Death and Life of Great American Cities in which she described the "great sidewalk ballet" she saw outside her home in Greenwich Village New York and how it exemplified the virtues of urban living.

Frank Lloyd Wright
The Mike Wallace Interviews, 9/1/57 and 9/28/57
Marc Andreessen
A conversation with entrepreneur and software engineer Marc Andreessen Charlie Rose

Ada Louise Huxtable
She has written over ten books on architecture, including a 2004 biography of Frank Lloyd Wright for the Penguin Lives series.
Percival and Paul Goodman
Banning Cars from Manhattan: This seminal essay by Percival and Paul Goodman was first published in Dissent in 1961 and had a strong influence on environmentalists' attempts to tame the automobile in the following decades.
Vitruvius
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born c. 80-70 BC, died after c. 15 BC) was a Roman writer, architect and engineer who wrote De architectura, known today as The Ten Books on Architecture, which influences architects to this day because he asserted that a structure must exhibit the three qualities of firmitas, utilitas, venustas - that is, it must be strong or durable, useful, and beautiful.
David Macaulay
Author of several books on architecture and design: Cathedral, Castle, Pyramid, Roman City and numerous illustrated books
Ray and Charles Eames
Alexander Girard
My mentor.