Start with high-confidence architecture books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
How Buildings Learn
Stewart Brand
Adhocism, Expanded and Updated Edition
Charles Jencks, Nathan Silver
How Architecture Works
Witold Rybczynski
Beauty, Neuroscience, and Architecture
Donald H. Ruggles
Architecture
Jonathan Glancey
Eiffel's Tower for Young People
Jill Jonnes
Women of Steel and Stone
Anna M. Lewis
100 Years, 100 Buildings
John Hill
