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ARC523 Advanced Building Systems

READING LIST

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.

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

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

Reference

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


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