Including three that permanently reset my mindset (term used advisedly)

Saving Beauty by Han Byung-Chul surprised the shit out of me with the most arresting opening pages I have read in 30 years. Smooth “embodies today’s society of positivity. What is smooth does not injure. Nor does it offer any resistance. It is looking for Like. The smooth object deletes its Against. Any form of negativity is removed”

It’s nothing more than a vestibule to an underground pedestrian walkway and subway station, but 145 King St. West is an amazeballs post modern structure

Further excerpts from Jencks

Excerpts from one of Jencks’s books about postmodern architecture. Yes, really