Exciting Book Purchases

I'm on an architecture kick and can't get my nose out of these two books:



(Above) It's just a good thing to have and I hope it will one day greatly inform my real estate purchases.



This book is by the renowned architect Christopher Alexander, who teaches at Berkeley. Apartmenttherapy.com has referenced this book several times in regards to "making sense of your surroundings". So far, it reads like the "interiors" version of Jane Jacob's The Death and Life of Great American Cities (sweet original cover below).