Reading List
This reading list reflects many of the authors and works that have shaped my thinking over the years. It is not intended as a definitive canon, but as an evolving record of the ideas that continue to influence my work in architecture, philosophy, psychology, aesthetics, and symbolic thought. The books are not arranged according to importance, influence, or personal preference. While grouped loosely by subject for easier navigation, the categories themselves often overlap, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the ideas they explore.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Use and Abuse of History for Life
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Will to Power
Friedrich Nietzsche
Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Kallias, or Concerning Beauty
Friedrich Schiller
Sex and Character
Otto Weininger
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
Critique of Judgment
Immanuel Kant
The Republic
Plato
Dialogues
Plato
Timaeus
Plato
The Enneads
Plotinus
Index Rerum
Plotinus
Simulacra and Simulation
Jean Baudrillard
The Truth in Painting
Jacques Derrida
Ethics
Baruch Spinoza
Heaven and Hell
Emanuel Swedenborg
All That We Know Knows Us
Meister Eckhart
The Essays
Michel de Montaigne
What Is Buddhism?
Jorge Luis Borges & Alicia Jurado
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Perennial Philosophy
Aldous Huxley
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Inazō Nitobe
Samurai Ethics and Modern Japan
Yukio Mishima
The Philosophy of Parochialism
Radomir Konstantinović
Tao Te Ching
Laozi
Psychological Types
Carl Gustav Jung
Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
Carl Gustav Jung
The Red Book
Carl Gustav Jung
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Carl Gustav Jung
Man and His Symbols
Carl Gustav Jung
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell
The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption
Marie-Louise von Franz
The Feminine in Fairy Tales
Marie-Louise von Franz
Woman’s Mysteries
M. Esther Harding
Understanding Human Nature
Alfred Adler
The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Sigmund Freud
Art and Literature
Sigmund Freud
Totem and Taboo
Sigmund Freud
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
Erich Fromm
Syntactic Structures
Noam Chomsky
The Savage Mind
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Mythologiques
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Modern Art: 1770–1970–2000
Giulio Carlo Argan & Achille Bonito Oliva
Aesthetic
Benedetto Croce
Essays on Literature and Art
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A Theory of Semiotics
Umberto Eco
On Beauty
Umberto Eco
On Ugliness
Umberto Eco
The Aesthetics of Emptiness
Giangiorgio Pasqualotto
The Sacred and the Profane
Mircea Eliade
Images and Symbols
Mircea Eliade
The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History
Jeffrey Burton Russell
A Treatise on Painting
Leonardo da Vinci
Towards a New Architecture
Le Corbusier
The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton
The Ten Books on Architecture
Vitruvius
The Four Books of Architecture
Andrea Palladio
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Robert Venturi
Circle on Four Corners
Bogdan Bogdanović
Glossary of the City
Bogdan Bogdanović
Urbs & Logos
Bogdan Bogdanović
The Doomed Architect
Bogdan Bogdanović
Architecture and Disjunction
Bernard Tschumi
Red Is Not a Color
Bernard Tschumi
Anthology of Houses
Ranko Radović
Theatre
Eugène Ionesco
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
Plays
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Blake
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
Confessions of a Mask
Yukio Mishima
Dreamtigers
Jorge Luis Borges
The Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges
Dictionary of the Khazars
Milorad Pavić
Landscape Painted with Tea
Milorad Pavić
Immortality
Milan Kundera
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Neverending Story
Michael Ende
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
The Elementary Particles
Michel Houellebecq
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
The Colour of Magic
Terry Pratchett