What are the top 10 or so books that we should have in our reference library that are especially related to bamboo designing and building? 

One of the first useful bamboo books that I bought is the Jules Jansenn book nearly 15 years ago. This is third in the list below. For many of you already involved in bamboo I would say that at least 3 or 4 of these books would have provided the solid base foundations from which you started off. 

If you are just starting up, I suggest that you take a look at the first half of the list and then continue on as needed.  Have I missed out any major ones that you have read or come across? Please suggest.

BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS.

Title                                                      Author                                     

The Gift of the Gods                                    Oscar Hidalgo

IL31 Bambus – Bamboo                   Frei Otto, University of Stuttgard

Designing & Building with Bamboo         Jules JA Janssen

Building with Bamboo                               Gernot Minke           

Bamboo Building Essentials                      Darrel de Boer and Megan Groth, May 2010

Towards Resilient Bamboo Forestry        Arief Rabik, Ben Brown, 2014

Grow Your Own House                     Alexander von Vegesack , Mateo Kries, 2000

Guadua: Arquitectura y diseno      Marcelo Vilegas

The Bamboos : A Fresh Perspective        FA McClure

Bamboo The Plant and its Uses   Walter Liese and Michael Kohl, 2015

Booming Bamboo                             Pablo van der Lugt, 2017

What about papers written on bamboo?  There are many but here is a few that I shortlist:

Title                                                      Author                                     

Munir Vahanvati, Director, Giant Grass and Vice president, Bamboo Society of Australia - The Challenge of connecting bamboo.

Widyowijatnoko, Andry - Traditional and Innovative Joints in Bamboo Construction, ISBN: 978-3-86130438-4, Druck and Verlagshaus Mainz GmBH Aachen (2012)

Wang, T., Trujillo, O., Chang, W. et al. (1 more author) (2017) - Encoding bamboo’s nature for freeform structure design. International Journal of Architectural Computing,

Arq. Carolina Salazar Ocampo, WBC 2019 Paper - Form and tectonicity of the works of Simón Vélez 

Anastasia Maurina, ST., MT. Department of Architecture, Parahyangan Catholic University - Curved Bamboo Structural Elements.

Esti A Nurdiah, Petra Christian University, Surabaya - The Potential of Bamboo as Building Material in Organic Shaped Buildings. - The Potential of Bamboo as Building Material in Organic Shaped Buildings.

Sebastian Kaminsky, Ove Arup & Partners - Technical Guidance Note 03: Durability and Treatment of Bamboo in Cox's Bazar,