Start with high-confidence architectural essays books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
How Buildings Learn
Stewart Brand
Living and Working
Dogma
Architecture and Abstraction
Pier Vittorio Aureli
Rewriting Alberti
Peter Eisenman
Warped Space
Anthony Vidler
Assmble(d)
Aaron Betsky
Point Line Plane
Kengo Kuma
Beauty, Neuroscience, and Architecture
Donald H. Ruggles
Monrovia Modern
Danny Hoffman
Allied Works Architecture: Dwelling
Brad Cloepfil
The Great Indoors
Emily Anthes
The Spaces That Make US
Danish Kurani
Olle Lundberg
Structure and Synthesis
Mark Fell
Brutalist Plants
Olivia Broome
The Future of Transportation
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Darren Andersen
Form Follows Love
Anna Heringer, Dominique Gauzin-Müller
