Recommended Books – Dami Lee
These are a curated collection of readings for anyone interested in architecture, cities, or culture. I've distilled my top favorites and organized them into different categories for easy navigation. Categories: by Italo Calvino . This is one of my favourite books. It’s hard to confine it into a genre, and rather than reading, it's the kind of book that just needs to be felt. The book is framed as a conversation between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo, who is taken prisoner and ordered to tell stories of the cities he’s visited. The parables depict 55 surreal, imaginary cities, which are all in some way or another, meditations on culture, time, memory, death, language, and the human experience. I read this every time I want to escape to a lucid dream. by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki . This book was my gateway to my obsession with Japan. It's a mesmerizing exploration of darkness, light and shadow in traditional Japanese aesthetics. Tanizaki beautifully describes the elegance of dimly lit spaces, arg