Alexander, Christopher, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, et al.
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings,
Construction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Lots of big and little ideas on shaping space. 1170 pages, but you can read
a couple of pages at a time at your leisure. Why not just go to his website as well, right
here?
Arnheim, Rudolf.
The Dynamics of Architectural
Form. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Arnheim was Professor of the Psychology of Art at Harvard. This is very basic,
conceptual stuff, combined with good examples.
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The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982 (but he later did a New Version that he recommended). Indispensable for looking at
art, and I started with this before I knew about Dynamics, and I think there are some good applications to architecture here as well.
Paglia, Michael, and Diane Wray Tomasso.
The Mid-Century Modern House in Denver. Denver: Historic Denver, Inc., 2007. Over 100 houses
are illustrated, with historic overview, map and index of neighborhoods.
Susanka, Sarah.
Home by Design: Transforming your House into
Home. Newtown, CT: Taunton Press, 2004. A follow-on to
The Not So Big House, which you should get as well.
More to follow, as I think
of them.