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Faculty Publications
Brown, Lori. Feminist Practices. London: Ashgate, 2011. (NA2543.F45 F46 2011)
Bédard, Jean-François. Decorative Games: Ornament, Rhetoric, and Noble Culture in the Work of Gilles Marie Oppenord (1672-1742). Newark, DE: University of Delaware, 2011 (NK1449.Z9 O6633 2011)
Lonsway, Brian. Making Leisure Work: Architecture and the Experience Economy. New York: Routledge, 2009 (NA 2543.R43.L66 2009)
Massey, Jonathan. Crystal and Arabesque: Claude Bragdon, ornament and Modern Architecture. Pittsburgh; University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009 (NA 737.B65. M37 2009)
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School of Architecture Lecture Series
In the Reading Room, we currently have a rotating display of suggested readings on this semester's guest lecturers. See the linked document for a complete list of books and articles on these featured architects:
Tuesday 1/31 - James and Hayes Slade (Slade Architecture)
Tuesday 2/7 - Shimon Attie
Tuesday 2/14 - Suzanne Tick
Tuesday 2/21 - Hitoshi Abe (Atelier Hitoshi Abe // Chair of UCLA Dept. of Architecture and Urban Design)
Tuesday 3/20 - Calvin Tsao & Zack McKown (Tsao McKown Architects)
Tuesday 3/27 - D. Grahame Shane (Professor, Cooper Union)
Tuesday 4/3 - Alan Berger (Associate Professor, MIT Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning // Director, P-REX)
Thursday 4/5 - Teddy Cruz (Estudio Teddy Cruz // Associate Professor, UCSD)
New Books
Adjaye, David. A House for an Art Collector. New York: Rizzoli, 2011.
NA997 A53 A4 2011
Altoon, Ron. Retail Rescue: Visions + Strategies for Repositioning Distressed Retail Properties. Mulgrave, Australia: Images Publishing Group, 2010.
NA6218 A48 2010
Ando, Tadao. Tadao Ando: Process and Idea. Tokyo: TOTO Publishers, 2010.
NA1559 A5 A4 2010
Arpa, J. and Fernandez Per, A. Next (Density Series): Collective Housing in progress. A+T Architectural Publishers, April 2010.
NA7860 F376 2010
Barreneche, Raul A. The Tropical Modern House. New York: Rizzoli, 2011.
NA7117 T74 B37 2011
Benes, Mirka and Michael G. Lee, eds. Clio in the Italian Garden: Twenty-First Century Studies in Historical Methods and Theoretical Practices. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2011.
SB457.85 C59 2011
BIG. Seoul: Archilife, 2010.
NA1211 B52 2010
Bjarke Ingels Group: Projects 2001-2010. Hong Kong: Design Media Publishers, 2011.
NA1211 B52 2011
Burke, Catherine and Ian Grosvenor. School London: Reaktion Books, 2008.
LB3221 B87 2008
Campbell, James W.P. Brick: A World History (Backstein: eine architekturgeschichte). Munich: Knesebeck, 2003.
NA4120 C361 2003
Charlesworth, Esther and Rob Adams. The EcoEdge: Urgent Design Challenges in Building Sustainable Cities. New York: Routledge, 2011.
NA9053 E58 E26 2011
Dudler, Max. Hohe Häuser = High Rise Buildings: Frankfurt am Main. Sulgen, Switzerland: Niggli, 2010.
NA1088 D788 D8 2010
Frascari, Marco. Eleven Excercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing: Slow Food for the Architect’s Imagination. New York: Routledge, 2011.
NA2708 F73 2011
Hagberg, Eva. Nature Framed: At Home in the Landscape. New York: Moncelli Press, 2011.
NA7208.2 H34 2011
Ivanic, Maja and Spela Kuhar. Contemporary School Architecture in Slovenia 1991-2007. New York: Springer, 2008
LB3219 S57 I93 2008
Levy, Leah. Walter Hood: Urban Diaries. Washington D.C.: Spacemaker Press, 1997.
NA737 H59 A35 1997
Lynn, Greg and Mark Foster Gage, eds. Composites, Surfaces, and Software: High Performance Architecture. New Haven, CT: Yale School of Architecture, 2010.
NA2543 T43 C66 2010
Merrill, Michael. Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out the Dominican Motherhouse and the Patient Search for Architecture. Baden, Switzerland: Lars Muller Publishers, 2010.
NA737 K32 M46 2010
Modern Views: Inspired by the Mies van der Orhe Farnsworth House and the Philip Johnson Glass House. New York: Assouline Publishers, 2010.
NA680 M64 2010
Muller, Thomas and ROmana Schneider. The Classroom: From the Late 19th Century UNtil the Present Day. Berlin: Wasmuth, 2010.
LB3325 C5 C52 2010
Pelkonen, Eeva-Liisa. Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.
NA737 R57 P45 2011
Porter, Tom. Will Alsop: The Noise. New York: Routledge, 2011
NA997 A58 P67 2011
Powell, Kenneth. 21st Century London: The New Architecture. New York: Merrell, 2011.
NA970 P69 2011
Tawa, Michael. Agencies of the Frame: Tectonic Strategies in Cinema and Architecture. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2010.
NA2500 T38 2010
Tombazis, Alexandros N. Tombazis and Associates, Architects. Mulgrave, Australia: Images Publishing, 2011.
NA1103 G72 A4 2011
Uffelen, Chris van. Street Furniture. Salenstein, Switzerland: Braun Publishers, 2010.
NA9052 U34 2010
Viñoly, Rafael. Rafael Viñoly Architects. New York: Prestel, 2011.
NA737 V56 J64 2011
Waggoner, Lynda, ed. Fallingwater. New York: Rizzoli, 2011.
NA737 W7 F36 2011
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Featured Article
Henderson, Susan R.
Romerstadt: the modern garden city
Planning Perspectives
Vol. 25, No. 3, July 2010,
pp.323-346
Recent articles- suggested readings
Borg, Amelia and Timothy Moore. “The Act of Disconnection: Just because I do not send a message within a matter of minutes does not mean I am dead.” Volume, v.28, p.148-151
Jarzombek, Mark. “The Metaphysics of Permanence: Curating Critical Impossibilities.” Log, Winter 2011, v.21, p.125-136
Miara, Jim. “Detroit: The New Paradigm.” Urban Land, July/August 2011, v.70, n.5/6, p.75-80.
Rocker, Ingeborg M. “Apropos Parametricism: If, in what style should we build?” Log, Winter 2011, v.21, p.89-100
Zardini, Mirko. “(Against) the Greenwashing of Architecture.” New Geographies, v.2: Landscapes of Energy, p.139-147
Architecture Recent News
- Seeing Things | Size MattersThe New York architecture firm Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis (LTL) is taking up residence on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame with “4 Projects: 4 Scales,” a new exhibition at Woodbury University’s Hollywood outpost, at 6518 Hollywood Boulevard.
- The Memorial Architect: Unknown City Architect Michael Arad's 9/11 Moment ArrivesThe nearly completed 9/11 Memorial in New York City and its Architect
- 2011 AIA/ALA Library Building AwardsThe American institute of Architects (AIA) has selected five recipients to receive the 2011 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards.
- Bolshoi Theater to Reopen in October After Years of ReconstructionRussia's venerable Bolshoi Theater — which survived fires, a Nazi bombing and Lenin's request to have it blown up — is almost ready to reopen after years of reconstruction and will look just as it did during the czarist era.
- David Byrne: How Architecture Helped Music Evolve (video)As his career grew, David Byrne went from playing CBGB to Carnegie Hall. He asks: Does the venue make the music? From outdoor drumming to Wagnerian operas to arena rock, he explores how context has pushed musical innovation.
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