Some of these links are to inspire you, while others to inform you about ideas, history etc. Some are just a great resource in case you are stuck while others will push you out of your comfort zone.
Books/films are important, some will stay with you for the rest of your professional life.
This is by far not an exclusive list, they are just the beginning…
WEB
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BOOKS
Aires Mateus, El Croquis, 2011
Alvar Aalto, Complete Works, 1990
Alvar Aalto Houses, Jetsonen & Jetsonen, 2011
Archigram, Architecture without Architecture, Simon Sadler, 2005
Architecture as Space, Bruno Zevi, 1957 (Excerpt)
Architectural Drawing, David Dernie, 2010
Barefoot Architect, Johan van Lengen, 2007
Building Skins, Christian Schittich, 2006
Collage City, Colin Rowe Fred Koetter, 1978
Construction Drawings and Details: Basic Skills, Kilmer&Kilmer, 2003
Cotters and Squatters, Colin Ward, 2004
Crit – An Architectural Student’s Handbook, 2000
Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas, 1994
Design through Making, Bob Sheil, 2005
Drawing, A Motive Force of Architecture, Peter Cook, 2014
Drawing Futures, Allen, Pearson, 2016
El Croquis 73: Zaha Hadid
El Croquis 72: Enric Miralles
Experiencing Architecture, Steen Eiler Rasmussen, 1959
Flesh, Diller Scofidio, 1996
Housing: An Anarchist Approach, Colin Ward, 1976
In Detail: Building Simply, Christian Schittich, 2001
In Praise of Shadows, Junichiro Tanizari, 1977
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino, 1972
Japan : Its Architecture, Art, And Art Manufactures, Christopher Dresser, 1882
Le Corbusier, Elements of a Synthesis, Stanislaus von Moos, 1982
Le Corbusier in Detail, 2007
Learning from Las Vegas, Ventrui, Brown, 1972
Lessons for Students of Architecture, Herman Herzberger, 2005
Life: a Users Manual, George Perec
Manhattan transcripts, Bernhard Tschumi, 1994
Metric Handbook, Pamela Buxton, 2015
Modern Architecture – A Critical History, Kenneth Frampton
OMA Rem Koolhaas, El Croquis, 2006
Pamphlet Architecture 28, Augmented Landscapes, Smout Allen, 2014
Pamphlet Architecture 19, Reading Drawing Architecture, Michael Silver, 2015
Peter Zumthor: Building Projects
Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, 1958
Seven Lamps of Architecture, John Ruskin, 1889
Sexulaity & Space, Beatriz Colomina, 1992
Space, Time and Architecture, Siegfried Gideon, 1941
Species of Spaces, George Perec
The Art of Japanese Joinery, Kiyosi Seiki, 1977
The Eyes of the Skin, Juhani Pallasmaa, 2013
The Modern Lanuage of Architecture, Bruno Zevi, 1978
The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli, 2011
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, Rayner Benham, 1960
Thinking Architecture, Peter Zumthor, 2005
Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier, 1923
Understanding Architecture Through Drawing, Brian Edwards, 2008
Ways of Seeing, John Berger, 1972
10 Books on Architecture, Vitruvius Pollio
BUILDING
Houses
Barcelona Pavillion, Mies van der Rohe, 1929
Casa Sperimentale, Giuseppe Perugini, Uga de Plaissant, 1968
Charred Cedar House, Terunobu Fujimori, 2007
Eames House, Ray and Charles Eames, 1949
Falling Water, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1937
Farnsworth House, Mies van der Rohe, 1931
Hopkins House, Hopkins Architects, 1976
Maison de Verre, Pierre Charreau, 1928
Melnikov House, Konstantin Melnikov, 1929
Muuratsalo Experimental House, Alvar Aalto, 1954
Rogers House, Richard Rogers, 1969
Schroeder House, Gerrit Rietveld, 1924
Suzuki House, Bolles Wilson, 1993
Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1923
Trufa, Anton Garcia-Abril Ensable Studio, 2010
Vanna Venturi House, Robert Venturi, 1950
Villa le Lac, Le Corbusier, 1923
Villa Mairea, Alvar Aalto, 1939
Villa Savoy, Le Corbusier, 1931
Villa Tugendhat, Mies van der Rohe, 1930
Walmer Yard, Peter Salter, 2016
Willow Road, Erno Goldfinger, 1939
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Housing
Ricardo Bofill, Kafka Castle, 1968
Ricardo Bofill, La Muralla Roja, 1973
Ricardo Bofill, Walden 7, 1974
Steven Holl, Void Space Housing, Fukuoka, 1991
Le Corbusier, Unite d’Habitation, Marseilles, 1952
OMA, Nexus Housing Fukuoka, 1991
Hans Requat and Harry Glück, Alt-Erlaa, 1986
Walter Segal, Walters Way, 1977
Bruno Taut, Hufeisensiedlung, 1920
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ARCHITECTS
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FILMS
My Architect – A son’s Journey (Nathaniel Kahn about his father Louis Kahn, 2003
Rem Koolhaas: Houselife – Interview with Filmmakers Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine
Sou Fujimoto takes the Build Your Own Pavilion Challenge
Terunobu Fujimori’s Floating Tea House
FURTHER LINKS
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