ARC423 Advanced Building Systems

READING LIST

 Link to ARC423 index page.

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All listed readings are on reserve in the Architecture Reading Room. You are not required to purchase any text for this course.  Note also that the Sherwood text is used only as a reference. It is however a book of sufficient usefulness that you should consider owning a copy.

Strict compliance with rights of access to reading material is essential.

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1. Mainstone, Rowland, Brunelleschi and the Cupola of S. Maria del Fiore, Xerox article.
2. Giedion, S., Mechanization Takes Command, New York, 1948, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Part 1. Anonymous History
  • Part 2. Springs of Mechanization
  • Part 3. Means of Mechanization
  • Part 6. Mechanization Encounters the Household
  • Part 7 The Mechanization of the Bath
  • In Conclusion
3. E. Morrison, Men, Machines and Modern Times,
  • Chapter: "Almost the Greatest Invention", pg 123
4. Rowe, Colin, The Mathematics of the Ideal V il!a, Cambridge, Mass, the MIT Press, 1976
  • "The Chicago Frame", Pg 89-117
5. Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings, Meridian Books, 1960
  • "The Art and Craft of the Machine", often known as the Hull House lecture.
6. Hobhouse, Christopher, 1851 and the Crystal Palace; being an account of the Great Exhibition and its contents; of Sir Joseph Paxton; and of the erection, the subsequent history and the destruction of his masterpiece
  • T690.B1 H6 1937
7. R. Bender, A Crack in the Rear View Mirror,
  • Foreword, pg 57, 105-172
8. Brandle, Kurt, Systems Approach to Building:
  • a core of information.
9 Colguhoun, Alan, "Critique", AD 2/77
  • pg 76 (Xerox article)
10. Rabeneck, Andrew, "Beaubourg: Process and Purposes AD 2/77
  • pg 104, (Xerox article)
11. Testa, Carlo, The Industrialization of Building, New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1972

  • Foreword, Introduction pg 7-66

  • Conclusions pg 190-194
12. Dietz, Albert, Industrialized Building Systems for Housing, MIT 1971
  • 1. Building Technology: Potentials and Problems
  • 2. Constraints
  • 7. The Industrialized Evolution
  • 11 The Third Era of Systems Building
  • 13. Mechanical Systems for Industrialized Building
13. Frampton, Kenneth, Studies in Tectonic Culture, The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, the MIT Press, Cambridge MA 1995
  • Chapter 10 Postscriptum: the Tectonic Trajectory, 1903-1994

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Optional reading:
14. Frampton, Kenneth, "Industrialization and the Crises in Architecture", Oppos1tions 1, September 1973,
  • pg 57
15. Banham, Reynor, The Architecture of the Well Tempered Environment

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Reference
16. Sherwood, Roger, Modern Housing Prototypes, Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 1978
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