The basis of the Newtecnic project process for architecture and engineering is visualise - design - test

The project process is informed by design sources

The 18 themes of the design sources mirror categories of the project process of visualise - design - test. A set of 9 project steps (as seen at Modern Construction Online) is distributed across these 3 categories for developing architectural and engineering outputs that address construction and fabrication-related design issues at an early stage. This process allows projects to revisit earlier iterations to inform the project synthesis.

Newtecnic Design Books

Modern Construction Case Studies, Second Edition; Andrew Watts

Modern Construction Case Studies; Andrew Watts

Modern Environmental Design; Andrew Watts

Modern Structural Design; Andrew Watts

Modern Construction Envelopes; Andrew Watts

Facades Technical Review; Andrew Watts

Modern Construction Handbook; Andrew Watts

Design Thinking

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; Creativity

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; Flow

Nigel Cross; Design Thinking

Bryan Lawson; How Designers Think

Peter Rowe; Design Thinking

Tim Brown; Change by Design

Richard Sennett; The Craftsman

Architectural Design

History of architectural modernism

Alan Colquhoun; Modern Architecture

Harry Francis Mallgrave; Modern Architectural Theory

Reyner Banham; Theory and Design in the First Machine Age

Anthony Vidler - Histories of the Immediate Present

Peter Collins; Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture

Kenneth Frampton; The Evolution of 20th Century Architecture

William Curtis; Modern Architecture since 1900

Theory of architectural modernism

Kenneth Frampton; Modern Architecture A Critical History

Alan Colquhoun; Modernity & the Classical Tradition; Architectural Essays

Alan Colquhoun; Collected essays in architectural criticism

Kenneth Frampton; Architecture and the Public World

Kenneth Frampton; Labour, work and architecture

Kenneth Frampton; The Other Modern Movement

Kenneth Frampton; A genealogy of Modern Architecture 1924-2004

Urban design

Kenneth Frampton; Megaform as Urban Landscape

Colin Rowe, Fred Koetter; Collage City

Jonathan F. P. Rose; The Well-Tempered City

Alison Smithson; Team 10 Primer

Edward Glaeser; Triumph of the City

Lewis Mumford; The City in History

Reyner Banham; The New Brutalism; Ethic or Aesthetic

Technical design history

Kenneth Frampton & John Cava; Studies in Tectonic Culture

Reyner Banham; The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment

Edward Ford; The Details of Modern Architecture - Volume 1

Edward Ford; The Details of Modern Architecture - Volume 2

Nikolaus Pevsner; The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design

Nikolaus Pevsner; Pioneers of Modern Design

Lewis Mumford; Technics and Civilisation

Geometry

Geoffrey Broadbent; Design in Architecture

Christopher Alexander, et al; A Pattern Language - Towns, Buildings, Construction

Christopher Alexander; Notes on the Synthesis of Form

Colin Rowe; The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays

Jane Burry & Mark Burry; The New Mathematics of Architecture

Bill Hillier; Space is the Machine; A Configurational Theory of Architecture

Lionel March & Philip Steadman; The Geometry of the Environment

Architectural phenomenology

Juhani Pallasmaa; The Eyes of the Skin

Juhani Pallasmaa; The Thinking Hand

David Leatherbarrow; Architecture Oriented Otherwise

David Leatherbarrow; Uncommon Ground; Architecture, Technology, and Topography

David Leatherbarrow; Topographical stories; studies in landscape and architecture

David Leatherbarrow; Building Time; Architecture, Event, and Experience

Engineering Design

Methodology

Ashby & Jones - Engineering Materials 1

Ashby & Jones - Engineering Materials 2

Baker & Steemers; Energy and Environment in Architecture

Erik K. Antonsson, Jonathan Cagan; Formal Engineering Design Synthesis

Gerhard Pahl, et al; Engineering Design - A Systematic Approach

Nigel Cross; Engineering Design Methods - Strategies for Product Design

W. Eder, S. Hosned; Design Engineering A Manual for Enhanced Creativity

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Merritt, Ambrose - Building Engineering and Systems Design.jpg

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Yates, Castro-Lacouture - Sustainability in Eng Design and Construction.jpg

Munier - Project Management for Environmental, Construction and Manufacturing Engineers.jpg

Design quality management based on ISO 9001

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Daud Alum, Uwe Guhl - Project Management for Practice.jpg

John S. Oakland, Marton Marosszeky - Total Construction Management.jpg

Kenneth H Rose - Project Quality Management.jpg

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Peter Fewings - Quality Management in Construction Projects.jpg

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Systems thinking

Peter M. Senge; The Fifth Discipline

Donella H. Meadows; Thinking in Systems

Atul Gawande; The Checklist Manifesto

Cal Newport; Deep Work

Phil Stutz, Barry Michels; The Tools

The Great Mental Models

Matt Ridley; How Innovation Works

Social Commentary

Hannah Arendt; Men in Dark Times

Robert Greene; Mastery

Robert Greene; The Laws of Human Nature

Robert Greene; The 48 Laws of Power

Malcolm Gladwell; David and Goliath

Malcolm Gladwell; Talking to Strangers

Hans Rosling; Factfulness

Contemporary Thought

Multidisciplinary thinking

Guy Debord; The Society of The Spectacle

Byung-Chul Han; Psycho-politics

Byung-Chul Han; The Transparency Society

Byung-Chul Han, Saving Beauty

Byung-Chul Han; Non-Things

Byung-Chul Han; Absence

Human progress thinking

Yuval, Noah Harari; 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari; Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari; Homo Deus

Steven Pinker; The Blank Slate

Steven Pinker, Rationality

Steven Pinker; Enlightenment Now

Steven Pinker; Better Angels of Our Nature

Interdisciplinary thinking

Hannah Arendt; The Human Condition

Nassim Nicholas Taleb; Antifragile, Things that Gain from Disorder

Nassim Nicholas Taleb; Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb; Skin In The Game

Nassim Nicholas Taleb; The Black Swan

Matt Ridley; Nature via nurture

Matt Ridley; The Evolution of Everything

Modern stoic thinking

William B. Irvine; A Guide to the Good Life

Ryan Holiday; Discipline Is Destiny

Ryan Holiday; Ego Is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday; Stillness Is the Key

Ryan Holiday; The Obstacle Is the Way

Alain de Botton; The Consolations of Philosophy

Alain de Botton; The School of Life, An Emotional Education

Classical thinking

Aristotle; The Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle; Metaphysics

Aristotle, Poetics

Epictetus; Discourses and Selected Writings

Marcus Aurelius; Meditations

Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

Bertrand Russell; History of Western Philosophy

Economic Theory

Eric Beinhocker; The Origin of Wealth

Ian Goldin, Chris Kutarna; Age of Discovery

Jared Diamond; Guns, Germs, and Steel

Niall Ferguson; Civilization

Niall Ferguson; The Ascent of Money

Edmund S. Phelps; Mass Flourishing

Niall Ferguson; The Square and the Tower

Environmental Theory

Mike Berners-Lee; There Is No Planet B

Seth Godin; The Carbon Almanac

Vaclav Smil; Energy and Civilization A History

Vaclav Smil; Growth

Vaclav Smil; Harvesting the Biosphere

Vaclav Smil; How the World Really Works

Vaclav Smil; Numbers Don't Lie

Technology Theory

W. Brian Arthur, The Nature of Technology

Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants

Carl Mitcham; Thinking through Technology

Kevin Kelly; The Inevitable

Bronowski, Jacob; The Ascent of Man

Chris Anderson; Makers, The New Industrial Revolution

Yuval Noah Harari; Nexus

Entrepreneurship Practice

Entrepreneurial process

Harvard Business Review; Entrepreneur's Handbook

Philip Delves Broughton; How to Think Like an Entrepreneur

Chris Zook, James Allen; The Founder's Mentality

Eric Ries; The Lean Startup

Klaus Schwab; Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Scott Belsky; Making Ideas Happen

Scott Belsky; The Messy Middle

Entrepreneurial product

Peter F. Drucker; Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Rick Rubin; The Creative Act, A Way of Being

Steven Johnson; Farsighted

Steven Johnson; Where Good Ideas Come From

Ash Maurya; Scaling Lean

Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits; The Lean Entrepreneur

Donald Miller; Building a Story Brand

Leadership Practice

Harvard Business Review; Leader's Handbook

Edgar H. Schein; Organizational culture and leadership

Josh Kaufman; The Personal MBA

Michael E. Gerber; The E-Myth Revisited

Richard Koch; The 80-20 Manager

Simon Sinek; Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek; Start With Why

Management Practice

Management guides

Harvard Business Review - Manager’s Handbook

Harvard Business Review - Project Management Handbook - Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez

Paul Roberts; The Economist - Guide to Project Management

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Better Business Writing

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Delivering Effective Feedback

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Finance Basics for Managers

Harvard Business Review HBR Guide to Getting the Right Work Done

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Leading Teams

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Making Every Meeting Matter

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Performance Management

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations

Harvard Business Review; HBR Guide to Project Management

Management thinking

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Change Management

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Communication

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Innovation

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Making Smart Decisions

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Managing Across Cultures

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Managing Yourself

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Mental Toughness

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Strategic Marketing

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Strategy

Harvard Business Review; HBR's 10 Must Reads - On Teams

Henry Mintzberg; Managing

Thomas DeLong, John Gabarro, Robert Lees; When professionals have to lead

David H. Maister; Managing the professional service firm

Strategy Practice

Seth Godin; This Is Strategy

Seth Godin; The Dip

Seth Godin; The Practice

Seth Godin; The Song of Significance

Seth Godin; Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck

Seth Godin; This Is Marketing

Robert Greene; The 33 Strategies of War

Business Practice

Culture

B Joseph Pine, James H, Gilmore; The Experience Economy

Ben Horowitz; What You Do Is Who You Are

Jeffrey Liker; The Toyota Way to Service Excellence

Simon Sinek; The Infinite Game

John Tennent; The Economist - Guide to Financial Management

Tom Peters; The Excellence Dividend

Tom Peters & Robert Waterman Jr; In Search of Excellence

Competition

Michael E Porter; Creating Shared Value

Joan Magretta; Understanding Michael Porter

Michael E. Porter; Competitive Advantage

Michael E. Porter; On Competition

Peter F. Drucker; The Essential Drucker

Roger Martin; The Design of Business, Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage

G. Richard Shell; Bargaining for Advantage

Innovation Practice

Clayton M. Christensen; The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton M. Christensen; The Innovator's DNA

Clayton M. Christensen; The Innovator's Solution

Furr & Dyer - The Innovator’s Method

Scott D. Anthony; The Little Black Book of Innovation

Tom Kelley; The Art of Innovation

Tom Kelley; The Ten Faces of Innovation

Teamwork Practice

Team conduct

James Clear; Atomic Habits

Susan David; Emotional Agility

Daniel Goleman; Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman; Focus

Charles Duhigg; Smarter Faster Better

Charles Duhigg; The Power of Habit

Matthew Walker; Why We Sleep

Team discipline

Steven Kotler; The Art of Impossible

Adam Grant; Give and Take

Leonard Mlodinow; Elastic

Ray Dalio; Principles

Daniel Levitin; The Changing Mind

Daniel Levitin; The Organized Mind

Greg McKeown; Essentialism

Team productivity

David Allen; Getting Things Done

Thomas M. Sterner; It’s Just a Thought

Adam Grant; Originals

The School of Life, How to Think More Effectively

Adam Grant; Think Again

Jeff Sutherland; Scrum, The art of doing twice the work in half the time

Steven Pressfield; The War of Art

Team leverage

Daniel Kahneman; Thinking, Fast and Slow

Tom Kelley; Creative Confidence

Matthew Crawford; The Case For Working With Your Hands

Daniel H Pink; Drive

Matthew B. Crawford; The World Beyond Your Head

Daniel H Pink; When

Peter Sims; Little Bets