Additional suggested readings for Third-Year Students.

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• Rowe, Colin  and Slutzky, Robert, Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal...Part II, Perspecta 13/14, 1971
  The seminal work on the subject. Very useful in understanding spatially interpenetrating plans and more complex facade compositions.
• Miller, John, Transformation; An Exercise in the Third-Year Design Studio, The Cornell Journal of Architecture, no.1, , p86-91, 1981
  An exercise in transforming a Leger painting and a Corbusier building from one into the other.

• Jellicoe, Geoffrey Alan, 1900-, Italian gardens of the Renaissance, [by] J. C. Shepherd and G. A. Jellicoe, 1953, Architecture Reading Room - Reserve, Call Number: SB466.I8 S5 1953
  For my money this is the definitive work on Italian gardens of the Renaissance. The drawings have become the de facto standard for drawing the landscape, particularly trees, in a way that is architectural and spatial. This version is a reduced size black and white version. The Arents Special Collection has an original, which is available to you, with large color plates.
• Jellicoe, Geoffrey Alan, 1900-  Landscape of man : shaping the environment from prehistory to the present day, 1982, c1975   Architecture Reading Room - Reserve, Call Number: SB470.5 .J44 1982
  This is the follow up book, which extends the range of investigation into the landscape. Available in paperback.
• Kolhoff, Hans F., Arthur A. Ovaska, and O. M. Ungers. The Urban Garden: Student Projects for the Sudliche Friedrichstadt Berlin. Ungers, West Germany: Studio Press for Architecture I, 1978.

• Shane, Graham, Contextualism
  The primer of urban design
• Schumacher, Thomas, Contextualism: Urban Ideals and Deformations, Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture, 1996, Cassabella
  Schumacher sets forth some of the basic urban design vocabulary and principles.
• Roma Interrota.
  The Roma Interrota (Rome Interrupted or broken, more loosely: Interventions in Rome) was an exhibition and book that began with the Nolli map of Rome. A copy of this map is on the wall of our reading room. The map is divided into 12 sections, a result of the size of paper available. Each section (sector) is then identified with a number. The organizers of the exhibit assigned each sector to an architect/theoretician and they were invited to make speculations on what contemporary interventions into that sector might be like. The architects included Romaldo Giurgola, Leon Krier, Robert Venturi, Michael Graves and Aldo Rossi.
• Rowe, Colin, with Peter Carl, Judith Di Maio and Steven Peterson, Roma Interrota, Nolli Sector, Architectural Design Profile, Vol. 49, No. 3-4 (1979).
  In his scheme, Rowe conjures up a hypothetical historical scenario. There is no lost catalogue, no University of St Francis Xavier, Great Falls, Montana, and Vincent Mulcahy is no priest but a faculty member at Cornell. and no, Napoleon never visited Rome. But all this provides the pretext for an urban design scheme that demonstrates Rowe's principles as clearly and convincingly as ever.
• Peterson, Steven. "Urban Design Tactics. Roma Interrota" Architectural Design Profile, Vol. 49, No. 3-4 (1979).
  In this text, Peterson explains, mostly through diagrams, the Rowe scheme. It serves as a concise lesson book on urban design tactics.
• Rowe, Colin, The Present Urban Predicament. The Cornell Journal of Architecture, no.1, 1981
  Besides a collection of student projects from Cornell in one of its high periods, the first journal contains a number of significant articles. If you can't read most of the rest of the journal, this is the most important piece.
• Dennis, Michael, Architecture and the Post-Modern City, The Cornell Journal of Architecture, no.1, 1981, p. 48-67
  An polemical work that builds upon Rowe's text and produces a series of student exercises that illustrate the principles at work. The tour de force project is by Wilven Van Campen (who taught at Syracuse) which brilliantly demonstrates the synthesis of modern and traditional architectural languages. One is well advised to very carefully study this project.
• Rowe, Colin and Koetter, Fred , Collage City, 1978
  The major opus. The entire book sets forth the significant urban design principles of Rowe. Rowe's writing is often difficult to decipher, but the effort is well worth it.
• Krier, Rob, Urban Space, 1979
  A wonderful example of applying and the notion of the spatial city to a specific context, in this case the city of Stuttgart.
• Bacon, Edmund N. Design of Cities. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978
  Very basic. Should be in every student's library..
• Barnett, Jonathan. An Introduction to Urban Design. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1982.
• Dennis, Michael. "Excursus Americanus." Modulus 16: We Have an Urbanism Still, 1983, pp. 111-125.
• Krier, Leon. Houses, Palaces, and Cities. New York: St. Martins’s Press, 1984.
  "A graphic explanation of Krier’s principles."

• Ching, Francis D.K., Architecture: Form, Space & Order.
  Very basic, almost a catalog, but still useful. A must for every student's library.

• Peterson, Steven, Space and Anti-space, Harvard Architecture Review, no.1, 1980, pp. 88-113
  It never hurts to reinforce notions of space.
• Zevi, Bruno, Architecture as Space, How to Look at Architecture
  It may be the basic first year text, but if you haven't read it, you should.

• Ford, Edward, The Details of Modern Architecture, Volumes 1 & 2, 1991 &1996
  Little theory or polemic. Lots and lots of axon drawings of wall sections showing how many of the most famous modern buildings were actually done.

• Rowe, Colin, Grid/Frame/Lattice/Web: Giulio Romano's Palazzo Macarani and the Sixteenth Century
  While this might seem a strange inclusion, ideas about grid, frame, lattice and web are remarkably relevant to modern architecture, in this case facade development.

• Schumacher, Thomas, The Skull and the Mask, The Modern Movement and Dilemma of the Facade, The Cornell Architectural Journal, Fall 1987, pg 4
  In interesting discussion on the relationship between notions of the facade and the tendencies of the modern movement.
• Schumacher, Thomas, Palladian Variations, The Cornell Architectural Journal, Fall 1987, pg 12
  A very interesting visual display of layered facades, using Palladio's facades as the examples.
• Hodgden, Lee, The Interior Facade, The Cornell Architectural Journal, Fall 1987, pg 30
  Refinement of notions of the room, the well defined architectural space and interior facades required to produce it.
• Warke, Val, The Bay, Investigations in the Analysis and Synthesis of an Elevational Phenomenon, The Cornell Architectural Journal, Fall 1987, pg 102
  A brilliant piece which takes a series of traditional facades and produces inverted models, a kind of spatial reverse bas-relief. The results are remarkably modern.