READING LIST

 
Week 1 - Introduction

Gregotti, Vittorio. "Modification." Inside Architecture. Tr. Peter Wong and Francesca Zaccheo. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996: 67-73.


Week 2 - Metamorphosis: Myth, Magic and Metaphor

Barkan, Leonard. The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis & the Pursuit of Paganism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.

Brownlee, David B. and David G. De Long. Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1991.

Crosby, Sumner Mc Knight. The Royal Abbey of Saint Denis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

Fehn, Sverre. "Has a Doll Life?," Perspecta 24, 1988.

Gerson, Paula Lieber. Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986.

Hall, Manly P. An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy. Los Angeles: The Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1968.

Johnson, Nell E. Light is the Theme: Louis I Kahn and The Kimbell Art Museum. Fort Worth: Kimbell Art Foundation, 1975.

Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis. Tr. Stanley Comgold. New York: Bantam Books 1988.

Latour, Alessandra. Louis I. Kahn: Writings, Lectures, Interviews. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.,1991.

Ovidius Naso, Publius. Metamorphoses. Tr. Rolphe Humphries. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.

Ovidius Naso, Publius. Metamorphoses. Tr. Mary M. Innes. New York: Penguin Books, 1955.

Panofsky, Erwin. Abbot Suger: On the Abbey Church of St. Denis and Its Art Treasures. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1946.

Pope, Arthur. Titian's Rape of Europa. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960.

Ricoeur, Paul. The Rule of Metaphor. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977.

Rykwert, Joseph. The Idea of a Town. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1989.

Seligmann, Kurt. The Mirror of Magic. New York: Pantheon Books, 1964.

Waterhouse, E.K. Titian's Diana and Actaeon. New York: Oxford University Press, 1952.


Week 3 - Geological Time and Evolutionary Biology

Bowler, Peter J. The Non-Darwinian Revolution: Reinterpreting a Historical Myth. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1988.

Cambell, A.B. Applied Chaos Theory: A Paradigm for Complexity. New York: Academic Press, Inc. 1993.

Cotterill, Rodney. The Cambridge Guide to the Material World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Coveney, Peter and Roger Highfield. The Arrow of Time. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1990.

Curtis, Helena. Biology, Fifth ed. New York: Worth Publishers, Inc., 1989.

Eliade, Mircea. The Myth of the Eternal Return. Tr. Willard R. Trask. New York: Princeton University Press 1985.

Gould, Stephen Jay. Time's Arrow / Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.

Mannoni, Luciana and Tiziano. Marble: The History of a Culture. New York: Facts on File Publications, 1985.

Monod, Jaques. Chance and Necessity. New York: Vintage Books, 1971.

Smith, Cyril Stanley. A Search for Structure: Selected Essays on Science, Art and History. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982.

Thompson, D'arcy. On Growth and Form. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1969.

Wesson, Robert. Beyond Natural Selection. The MIT Press: Cambridge. 1991.


Week 4 - Cultural Anthropology and Settlement Patterns

Berque, Augustin. "Beyond the Modern Landscape." AA Files. v. 25, Summer 1993: 33-37.

Blier, Suzanne Preston. The Anatomy of Architecture: Ontology and Metaphor in Batammaliba Architectural Expression. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Clark, Grahame and Stuart Piggott. Prehistoric Societies. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.

Coe, Mechael D. and Kent V. Flannery. "Microenvironment and Mesoamerican Prehistory." Science: Washington D.C., Vol 143. February 1964: 650-654.

Fraser, Douglas. Village Planning in the Primitive World. New York: George Braziller, 1968.

Gregotti, Vittorio. "Clues." Casabella: #46 482-486. October 1982: 12-13.

Gregotti, Vittorio. "Territory and Architecture." Architecture Design: #55. #5/6 1985: 28-.

Illich, Ivan. H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness. London: Marion Boyars, 1986.

Isaac, Erich. "The Act and the Covenant: The Impact of Religion on the Landscape." Landscape. v. 11-12. Winter '61-'62: 12-17.

Jackson, J.B. The Necessity for Ruins. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.

Odum, Eugune P. "The Strategy of Ecosystem Development." Science. v. 164. April 1969: 262-270.

Rykwert, Joseph. "Learning from the Street." The Necessity for Artifice. New York: Rizzoli International Press, 1982: 9-16.

Thomas, Julian. Rethinking the Neolithic. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Singh, R.H. and Dashi N. Singh. Readings in Rural Settlement Geography. Varansi: National Geographical Society of India, 1975.

Tilley, Christopher. Metaphor and Material Culture. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 1999.

Tringham, Ruth and Peter J. Ucko. Man, Settlement and Urbanism. London: Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd. 1972.

Zube, Ervin H. Landscapes: Selected Writings By J.B. Jackson. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 1970.

LECTURE
Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, Acoma, Zuni:
Settlement Patterns in Southwest America

Cattanach, Jr., George. Long House: Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Washington D.C.: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1980.

Doyel, David E. Anasazi Regional Organization and the Chaco System. Albuquerque: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, 1992.

Frazier, Kendrick. People of Chaco: A Canyon and its Culture. W.W. New York: Norton & Co., 1986. Fussell, Betty. The Story of Corn. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1992.

Jennings, Jesse D. Prehistory of North America. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968.

Lekson, Stephen H. Great Pueblo Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986.

Oswalt, Wendell H. This Land was Theirs: A Study of the North American Indian. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1966.

Scully, Vincent. Pueblo: Mountain, Village, Dance. New York: The Viking Press, 1975


Week 5 - Project Conditions: The Site

Berque, Augustin. "Some Traits of Japanese Fudosei." The Japan Foundation Newsletter. V. XIV/No.5 February 1987: 1-7.

Cosgrove, Denis and Stephen Daniels. The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Frampton, Kenneth. "Prospects for a Critical Regionalism." Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal. v. 20 1983:148-162.

Frampton, Kenneth. "Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance." The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Ed. Hal Foster. Seattle: Bay Press, 1983.

Hewitt, Kenneth. "The Meaning and Loss of Place in War." Fudo: An Introduction. Ed. A.V. Liman and Fred Thompson. Waterloo: University of Waterloo Press, 1986.

Jackson, John Brinkerhoff. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Genus Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture. New York: Rizzoli International Publications Inc., 1984.

Olgyay, Victor. Design with Climate: Bioclimatic Approach to Architectural Regionalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963.

Tetsuro, Watsuji. A Climate: A Philosophical Study. Tr. Geoffrey Bownas. Tokyo, Japan: Printing Bureau, Japanese Ministry of Education, 1961.

Trancik, Roger. Finding Lost Space: Theories of Urban Design. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1966.

LECTURE
Japan: Climate and Architecture

Clark, Gregory, and Mike Langford. Japan: Landscape, Tradition, Season. Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1991.

Coldrake, William Howard. The Way of the Carpenter. New York: Wetherhill, 1990.

Drexler, Arthur. The Architecture of Japan. New York: Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Arno Press, 1966.

Kawashima, Chuji. Minka: Traditional Houses of Rural Japan. Tr. Lynee E. Riggs. San Francisco: Kodansha International LTD, 1986.

Morse, Edward S. Japanese Homes and their Surroundings. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1961.

Nitske, Gunter. From Shinto to Ando: Studies in Architectural Anthropology in Japan. London: Academy Editions, 1993.


Week 6 - Project Conditions: The Program

Corner, James. "A Discourse on Theory II: Three Tyrannies of Contemporary Theory and the Alternative of Hermeneutics." Landscape Journal.

Cret, Paul Phillippe. "Modern Architecture." The Significance of the Fine Arts: American Institute of Architects. Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1923.

Egelius, Mats. Ralph Erskine, Architect. Stockholm: Byggforlaget, 1990.

Fleig, Karl. Alvar Aalto. Editorial Gustavo Gili. Barcelona: S.A.,1989.

Norman Foster. Arterigere. Varese, Italy: International Academy of Architecture, 1991.

Harries, Karsten. "The Voices of Space." Unpublished Writing.

Heidegger, Martin. "The Thing." Poetry, Language, Thought. Tr. Albert Hofstader. Harper & Row Publishers: New York. 1971.

Herman Hertzberger: Buildings and Projects. Arulf Luchinger, Arch. Edition. Den-Haag 1987.

Hillier, Bill and Julienne Hanson. The Social Logic of Space. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Lucien Kroll: Buildings and Projects. Rizzoli Press: New York. 1987.

Leatherbarrow, David. "Freidrichstadt - A Symbol of Toleration" Architectural Design. 53 11/12- 1983.

Mikelillides, Byron. Architecture for People: Explorations in a New Humane Environment. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982.

Morris, Robert. An Essay Upon Harmony: As it relates chiefly to Situation and Building. Garland Publishing, Inc.: New York. 1982.

Pica, Agnoldomenico. Pier Luigi Nervi. Roma: Editalia, 1969.

Quantrill, Malcom. Alvar Aalto: A Critical Study: New York: Schocken Books, 1983. Ray, Stefano. Ralph Erskine: Architetture di bricolage e partecipazione. Dedalo Libri: Bari, 1978.

Read, Gray. "Monticello's Dumbwaiters." Journal of Architectural Education. V. 48 n.3, February 1995: 168-175.

Rose, Dan. "The Brandywine: A Case Study of an Ecological Strategy." VIA 5: the Journal of the Graduate School of Fine Arts University of Pennsylvania. 1982: 75-83.

Rykwert, Joseph. "Meaning and Building," "The Sitting Position" The Necessity for Artifice. New York: Rizzoli International Press, 1982.

Vesely, Dalibor. "Architecture and the Conflict of Representation." AA files, Number 8, January 1985.

Vitruvius, Marcus Pollio. De Architectura I: Books I-V. Tr. Frank Granger. The Loeb Classical Library No. 251. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985: 24-25, 76-79.


Week 7 - Project Conditions: The Architect

Alberti, Leon Battista. On the Art of Building in Ten Books. Tr. Joseph Rykwert. Cambridge: The MIT Press 1988.

Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. Doubleday & Company Inc.: New York, 1959.

Bloomer, Kent and Charles Moore. Body, Memory and Architecture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

Coles, William, ed. Architecture and Society: Selected Essays of Henry Van Brunt. "On the Present Condition and Prospects of Architecture." Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969: 158-169.

Evans, Robin. Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays. London: AA Publications, 1997.

Hersey, George. The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1988.

Harries, Karsten. "Space, Place, and Ethos." Artibus et historiae no. 9. 1984: 159-165.

Petri, Mathilde, "Interview with Sverre Fehn." Skala 23, 1990.

Rykwert, Joseph. "Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body" In History In, of and for Architecture. Ed. John E. Hancock. Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati,1981.

Rykwert, Joseph. "The Corinthian Order." The Necessity for Artifice. Rizzoli International Press, Inc: New York, 1968.


Week 8 - The Shape of Time: Workings

Burke, Kenneth. Counter Statement. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1968.

Corner, James. "Operational Eidetics." Harvard Design Magazine.

Eco, Umberto. The Open Work. Tr. Anna Cancogni. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.

Harries, Karsten. "The Dream of the Complete Building." Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal Inc. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1980: 36-43.

Kubler, George. The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962.

Leatherbarrow, David and Mohsen Mostafavi. On Weathering: the Life of Buildings in Time. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1993.

Siza, Alvaro. "Design as Experience." Domus Febrano '93: 22-28.

Schjeldahl, Peter. Columns & Catalogues. Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1994.

Testa, Peter. "The Making of Architecture: an Interview with Alvaro Siza." Harvard Architecture Review 7. 1989:183-187.


Week 9 - Modification by Reuse, Formal Extension, and Layering

Rossi, Aldo. The Architecture of the City. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1982.

Anderton, Frances. "New Light on Los Angeles." Architecture Review 182. December 1987.

Baldeweg, Juan Navarro. "Cultural Center and Museum, Murcia, Spain." The Architectural Review v. 187, January-June 1990: 1115-1120.

Baldeweg, Juan Navarro. "Project for the reconversion of the Old Watermills of Murcia." Lotus International. 50-52: 26-30.

Blaau, Sible de. 'Medieval architecture." Society of Architectural Historians Journal. v. 51, Dec. 1992: 454-456.

Blau, Eve. Ruskinian Gothic: The Architecture of Deane and Woodward 1845-1861. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

Colquhon and John Miller. "London Whitechapel Art Gallery." Abitare September 1986: 376-377.

Dietsch, Deborah K. "A Fine Weave: Whitechapel Art Gallery." Architecture Record v. 174 July 1986: 105-114.

Frampton, Kenneth. "In Praise of Siza." Design Quarterly no. 156, Summer '92: 2-5.

Hersey, George L.. High Victorian Gothic: A Study in Associationism. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1972.

Hines, Thomas. "Origin and Innovation." The Architectural Review v.182. Dec. 1987: 73-79.

Barclay Lloyd, Joan E. "The Building History of the Medieval Church of S. Clemente in Rome." Society of Architectural Historians Journal. v. 45. Sept. 1986: 197-223.

McCoy, Esther. Five California Architects. New York: Praefer Publishers, 1975.

Pizzi, Emilio. Mario Botta. Editorial Gustavo Gili. Barcelona: S.A., 1991.

Siza, Alvaro. "To catch a precise moment of flittering image in all its shades." Architecture and Urbanism: #123, Dec. 1980: 9.

Testa, Peter. " Tradition and Actuality in the Antonio Carlos Siza House." JAE: 40/4 Summer 1987:24-30.


Week 10 - Modification Strategies: Subtraction, Distortion, and Deformation

Blunt, Anthony. Borromini. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1979.

Leatherbarrow, David. The Roots of Architectural Invention: Site, Enclosure, Materials. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Semper, Gottfried. The Four Elements of Architecture and Other Writings. Tr. H.f. Mallgrave and Herrmann, W. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Burkhardt, Francois and Claude Eveno. Joze Plecnik: Architect 1872-1957. Tr. Carol Volk. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1989.

Burkhardt, Francois and Milena Lamarova. Cubismo cecoslovacco: Architetture e interni. Electa Editirice Milano: 1982.

der Barockbaumeister aus Eger. Balthasar Neumann 1687-1753. Ausstellung der Stadt Wendlingen am neckar Edition Cantz. 1987.

Otto, Christian F. Space into Light: The Churches of Balthasar Neumann. New York: The Architectural History Foundation/MIT Press, 1979.

Portoghesi, Paolo. Roma Barocca: The History of an Architectonic Culture. Tr. Barbara Luigia La Penta. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1970.

Saalamn, Howard. Haussmann: Paris Transformed. New York: George Braziller Inc., 1971.

Schultz, Bernard. Balthasar Neumann. Herder Freiburg: Breisgau. 1986.

Von Vegesak, Alexander. Czech Cubism: Architecture, Furniture and Decorative Arts 1910-1925. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992.


Week 11 - Modification Strategies: Opposition or Otherness, Collage

Gopnik, Adam. "The Glass House." The New Yorker.

Frampton, Kenneth and Marc Vellay. Pierre Chareau. Architect and Craftsman 1883-1950. New York: Rizzoli, 1985.

Nakamura, Toshio. "Carlo Scarpa." Architecture + Urbanism, October 1985 Extra Edition A+U Publishing Co. Ltd. Tokyo. 1985.

Ambasz, Emilio. The Architecture of Luis Barragan. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1976.

Bleeker, Isabelle. Armando Salas Portugal Photographs of the Modern Architecture of Mexico: Vol. I Luis Barragan. Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. 1992.

Creswell, K.A.C. Early Muslim Architecture, Vol II. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1979: 138-166.

Evert, Christian and Jens-Peter Wisshak. Forchungen Sur Almohadischen Moschee, Vol I. Verlay Phillip von Zaben Mainz am Rhein. 1981.

Guell Xavier. Souto de Moura. Editiorial Gustavo Gili, S.A. Barcelona. !990.

Herbst, Rene. Pierre Chareau. Paris: Editions du salon des Art Menagers Union des Artistes Modernes, 1954.

Morales, Carlos. Luis Barragon: Clasico del Silencio. Tr. Brian J. Mallet. Universidad del Los Andes, Escla Columbia: Bogota, Columbia. 1989.

Roe, Colin and Koetter, Fred. Collage City.

Smith, Clive Bamford. Builders in the Sun: Five Mexican Architects. Architectural Book Publishing Co. Inc: New York. 1967.