Reading Material: Books Shaping Artists’ Practices Now

Ten artists tell us about a key book they read this year and how it affected their practice.—Eds.
Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building (1979)
FICUS INTERFAITH
We love this book so much. Its streamlined layout and lucid, methodical style allow you to swim around inside it. Although we are not architects, we like to use this book as a lens to view ourselves as artists and to reimagine the function of art-making. Instead of viewing artists as isolated vehicles of their own geni