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ARC307 Architectural Design Studio
Professor Bruce Coleman

A General Bibliography for Third-Year Studio

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This bibliography represents a range of sources addressing the architectural issues primary to ARC 307/308. Specific reading assignments made by your professor may, or may not, include the following citations. Regardless, we encourage you to survey the list, and explore those references that strike your interest and/or imagination. All of the books on the list may be found on reserve in the Architectural Reading Room. Most are available in bookstores or through used book sites on the web.
LANDSCAPE AND CITY
  • Carol Burns, On Site: Architectural Preoccupations, Drawing/Building/Text, 1991
  • Kenneth Frampton, Towards a Critical Regionalism, The Anti-Aesthetic, 1983
  • J.B. Jackson, The Necessity for Ruins, 1980
  • Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 1961
  • G.A. Jellicoe, The Landscape of Man, 1975
  • Rem Kolhaas, Delirious New York, 1978
  • Kevin Lynch, Image of the City, 1960
  • Ian McHarg, Design with Nature, 1969
  • Steve Peterson, Space and Anti-space, Harvard Architecture Review, no.1, 1980
  • Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City, 1982
  • Thomas Schumacher, Contextualism: Urban Ideals and Deformations, Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture, 1996
  • Venturi/Scott-Brown/Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas, revised edition 1998

Reference

  • James Corner and Alex Maclean, Taking Measures Across the American Landscape, 1996
  • Rob Krier, Urban Space, 1979
  • John Reps, The Making of Urban America, 1965
  • Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter, Collage City, 1978
  • J.O. Simonds, Landscape Architecture: a Manual of Site Planning and Design, 1983
  • The Cornell Journal of Architecture, no.1, 1981
MATERIALS AND TECTONICS 
  • George Baird, The Labour of our Body and the Work of our Hands, Harvard Architecture Review, no.7, 1989
  • Edward Ford, The Details of Modern Architecture, Volumes 1 & 2, 1991 &1996
  • Kenneth Frampton, Studies in Tectonic Culture, 1995
  • Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses, 1996
  • Demetri Porphyrios, From Techne to Tectonics, Classical Architecture, 1991

Reference

  • American Institute of Steel Construction, Manual of Steel Construction, 1989
  • Edward Allen and Joseph Iano, The Architect's Studio Companion, 1989
DRAWING AND REPRESENTATION
  • Robin Evans, Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays, 1997
  • Edward Tufte, Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Decision Making.1997
THEORY AND CRITICISM
  • David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1989
  • Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky, Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal...Part II, Perspecta 13/14, 1971
  • Jean-Paul Sartre, American Cities, The Citv: American Experience, 1971
  • Robert Venturi, Complexitv and Contradiction in Architecture, 1966

Reference

  • K. Michael Hays, ed., Architecture Theory since 1968, 1998
  • Hanno-Walter Kruft, ed., A Historv of Architectural Theorv from Vitruvius to the Present, 1994
  • Joan Ockman, ed., Architecture Culture 1943-1968, 1993
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