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Architecture: Architectural Theory

Books and other resources added to the Syracuse University Library collections

Reference Sources

Books and Anthologies

Periodicals

306090: A Journal of Emergent Architecture and Design

NA2599.5 T47

No.1-7, 9-10, 12-13

AA Files

NA 1.A1 A22

No.1 (1981/82) – present

ANY (Architecture New York)Oversize NA705 .A58

No. 0 (1993) - No. 27 (2000) – ceased

Assemblage

NA1 .A86

No. 4 (1987) - No. 41 (2000)– ceased

Assemblage Online Link

Center

NA1 .C46

V.1 (1985) - v.8 (1993)

DaidalosNA1 .A1 D34

No.2 (1981) - no. 75 (2000)–ceased

Grey Room

NA100. G74

No.1 – Present

Grey Room Online Link

Harvard Architecture Review

NA1 .H33

V.1 - V.10

Hunch

NA2310. N4 H86

No.1, 3-9, 11-12

Log

NA1. L63

No.1-2, 7, 9 - present

Lotus International

NA9 .L6

No.1 (1964/65) – present

Modulus

NA1 .M63

No.5, no.11, no.16, no.17 - no.23

Oppositions

NA1 .O65

No.1 (1973) - no. 26 (1984)

Perspecta

NA1 .P46

No.1, No.3 – 27

Perspecta Online Link

Places

NA2542.35 .P53

Places Online Link

Positions

NA680 .P674

No. 1 – present

Praxis: Journal of Writing + Building

NA1. P678

No.1-4, 7 - present

Princeton Architectural Journal

NA1 .P69

No.1 - No.4

VIA (Journal of the Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania)

Cataloged separately:

NA2794 .V53 1990

NA2500 .E83 1990

NA25 .R46 1988

Oversize PN56 .A73 A7 1986

NA2540 .B78 1984

NA2760 .A73 1983

NA3320 .O7NA2560 .S92

Attitudes Towards Antiquity

Vitruvius

Palladio, Andrea

Perrault, Claude

Serlio, Sebastiano

Soufflot, Jacques-Germain

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene-Emmanuel

Ornament

Alberti, Leon Battista

Laugier, Marc-Antoine

Loos, Adolf

Semper, Gottfried

Sullivan, Louis

Van de Velde, Henry

Search for Form

Boullee, Etienne-Loius

Le Corbusier

Durand, Jean-Nicolas-Louis

Eisenman, Peter

  • Eisenman, Peter. “After Derrida, There Are No Corners.” (Syracuse University School of Architecture Lecture Series, Fall 2007). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University School of Architecture, 2007. (King + King – Video DVD A074)
  • Garofale, Luca. Digital Eisenman: An Office of the Electronic Era. (Boston: Birkhauser Publishers, 1999. (On Order – coming soon to SU Library)

Gropius, Walter

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig

Rowe, Colin

Serlio, Sebastiano

Van Doesburg, Theo

  • Van Doesburg, Theo. “Die Neue Architektur und Ihre Folgen.” Wasmuths Monatshefte fur Baukunst, v.9, p.503-518, pl. 6, 9, 10-13. (not available at SU Library)

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene-Emmanuel

Wren, Christopher

Wright, Frank Lloyd

People of Note

Antiquity

  • Vitruvius (BC)

Renaissance (1400’s)

  • Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472)

1500

  • Palladio, Andrea (1508-1580)
  • Serlio, Sebastiano (1475-1554)

1600

  • Perrault, Claude (1613-1688)
  • Wren, Christopher (1632-1723)

1700

  • Blondel, Francois (1705-1774)
  • Boullee, Etienne-Loius (1728-1799)
  • Durand, Jean-Nicolas-Louis (1760-1834)
  • Laugier, Marc-Antoine (1713-1769)
  • Ledoux, Claude Nicolas (1736-1806)
  • Price, Uvedale (1747-1829)
  • Soufflot, Jacques-Gabriel (1713-1780)

1800-1880

  • Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore (1812-1852)
  • Ruskin, John (1819-1900)
  • Semper, Gottfried (1803-1879)
  • Sitte, Camillo (1843-1903)
  • Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene-Emmanuel (1814-1879)

1880-1900

  • Sullivan, Louis (1856-1924)

1900 – 1920

  • Howard, Ebenezer (1850-1928)
  • Loos, Adolf (1870-1933)
  • Scheerbart, Paul (1863-1915)
  • Taut, Bruno (1880-1938)
  • Van de Velde, Henry (1863-1957)
  • Wright, Frank Lloyd (1867-1959)

1920 - 1945

  • Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret) (1887-1965)
  • Gropius, Walter (1883-1969)
  • Kiesler, Frederick (1890-1965)
  • Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig (1886-1969)
  • Van Doesburg, Theo (1883-1931)

1945 – 1960

  • Fuller, R. Buckminster (1895-1983)
  • Mumford, Lewis (1895-1990)

1960 – 1980

  • Tschumi, Bernard (1944- )
  • Venturi, Robert (1925-2018)

1980 – Present

  • Allen, Stan (1956- )
  • Corner, James (1961- )
  • Eisenman, Peter (1932- )
  • Koolhaas, Rem (1944- )
  • Rowe, Colin (1920-1999)

On Theory

Philosophers - on Architecture

Origins of Architecture

Laugier, Marc-Antoine

Semper, Gottfried

Ethics

Alberti, Leon Battista

Ledoux, Claude Nicolas

Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore

Ruskin, John

Architectural Representation

Regionalism

Blondel, Nicolas Francois

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Subject Headings

When searching Classic Catalog, try the following Library of Congress subject headings:

  • Architecture--Philosophy
  • Architectural Criticism
  • Architecture, modern--Twentieth Century--Theory
  • Critical theory
  • Postmodernism

Specific aspects of architectural theory appear under headings like:

  • Symbolism in Architecture
  • Space (Architecture)

Many writings on or about architectural theory are assigned call numbers between NA 2500 and NA 2765.

E-Books

Mallgrave - An Anthology from Vitruvirus to 1870

Mallgrave - 1673 to 1968 - If you get an error that says "Product Session has expired", Click "Access Gale Virtual Reference Library Here". At the top where it says "Search your library's GVRL holdings" type in "Modern Architectural Theory". Look for Modern Architectural Theory : A Historical Survey, 1673-1968.

Mallgrave - 1968 to Present

Sage Handbook

Landscape and Gardens

Corner, James

John Dixon Hunt

Technology and Industrialization

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Gropius, Walter

Mumford, Lewis

Scheerbart, Paul

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene-Emmanuel

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Urbanism

Allen, Stan

CIAM (Congres International d’Architecture Moderne)

Le Corbusier

Eisenman, Peter

Gropius, Walter

Howard, Ebenezer

Koolhaas, Rem

Mumford, Lewis

Rowe, Colin

Sitte, Camillo

Taut, Bruno

Tschumi, Bernard

Venturi, Robert

Wright, Frank Lloyd