Architectural

Theories Bibliography

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Adler, Gerald, Timothy Brittain-Catlin, and Gordana Fontana-Giusti, eds. Scale:
Imagination, Perception and Practice in Architecture. London: Routledge,
2011.
Alain-Bois, Yves, and Rosalind Krauss. Formless: A Users Guide. NY: Zone Books,
1997.
Allen, Stan. "From Object to Field." Architectural Design 67, no. 5-6 (1997): 24-32.
. Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation, Critical Voices in Art,
Theory & Culture. London: Routledge, 2000.
Baldon, Cleo, and Ib Melchior. Steps and Stairways. NY: Rizzoli, 1989.
Barrie, Thomas. The Sacred in-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture. London:
Routledgexw, 2010.
Barthes, Roland. "The Eiffel Tower." VIA 2 (1973): 160-68.
Bell, Bryan, ed. Good Deeds Good Design: Community Service through Architecture.
NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004.
Bell, Bryan, Katie Wakeford, Steve Badanes, Roberta Feldman, Sergio Palleroni, Kate
Swenson, and Thomas Fisher. Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism. NY:
Metropolis Books, 2008.
Ben-Johnson, Eran. Rethinking a Lot. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012.
Born, Megan, Helene Furjn, and Lily Jencks. Dirt. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012.
Boyer, M. Christine. The City of Collective Memory. Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 1996.
Braham, William, and Jonathan Hale, eds. Rethinking Technology: A Reader in
Architectural Theory. London: Routledge, 2007.
Brillembourg, Alfredo, Hubert Klumpner, and Patrick Coulombel. Beyond Shelter:
Architecture and Human Dignity. NY: Metropolis Books, 2011.
Brophy, Vivienne, and J. Owen Lewis. A Green Vitruvius: Principles and Practice of
Sustainable Architectural Design. London: Routledge, 2011.
Brown, G. Z. . Sun, Wind and Light: Architectural Design Strategies. NY: Wiley, 2000.
Buckley, Craig, and Jean-Louis Violeau, eds. Utopie: Texts and Projects 1967-1978.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.
Burns, Carol, and Andrea Kahn, eds. Site Matters. London: MIT Press, 2005.
Calvino, Italo. Invisible Cities. NY: Harvest Books, 1978.
Cesal, Eric J. Down Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice. Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press, 2010.
Charlesworth, Esther, and Rob Adams, eds. The Ecoedge. London: Routledge, 2011.
Choi, Esther, and Marrikka Trotter, eds. Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010.
Colomina, Beatriz, and Jennifer Bloomer, eds. Sexuality and Space. NY: Princeton
Architectural Press, 1992.

Cook, Peter, and Neil Spiller, eds. The Paradox of Contemporary Architecture.
London: Academy Press, 2001.
Corbusier, Le. Towards an Architecture. Santa Monica, CA: Getty Publications, 2007
(1923).
Daston, Loraine, ed. Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science. NY: Zone
Books, 2004.
Dean, Andrea Oppenheimer. Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of
Decency. ston, Loraine: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.
DeKay, Mark. Integral Sustainable Design. London: Routledge, 2011.
Edwards, Sarah, and Jonathan Charley, eds. Writing the Modern City: Literature,
Architecture, Modernity. London: Routledge, 2011.
Eisenstein, Sergei M., and Yve-Alain Bois. "Montage and Architecture." Assemblage
10 (1989): 111-31.
Ewing, Suzanne, Jeremie Michael McGowan, Chris Speed, and Victoria Claire Bernie,
eds. Architecture and Field/Work. London: Routledge, 2011.
Flusser, Vilm. The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design. London: Reaktion Books,
1999.
Frascari, Marco. Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing: Slow Food for
the Architect's Imagination. London: Routledge, 2011.
. "The Tell-the-Tale Detail." Via 7 (1984): 22-37.
Friedman, Daniel, ed. Plumbing: Sounding Modern Architecture. NY: Princeton
Architectural Press, 1997.
Gehl, Jan. Cities for People. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2010.
. "Jan Gehl: Cities for People."
http://fora.tv/2011/05/02/Jan_Gehl_Cities_for_People.
. Spaces between Buildings. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1987.
Gregotti, Vittorio. Architecture, Means and Ends. Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
. Inside Architecture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.
Harries, Karsten. The Ethical Function of Architecture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press,
1997.
Hays, Michael, ed. Architectural Theory since 1968. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press,
1998.
Heller-Roazen, Daniel. The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation. NY: Zone Books,
2009.
Hertzberger, Herman. Lessons for Students in Architecture. Rotterdam: 010, 1998.
Heshong, Lisa. Thermal Delight in Architecture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1979.
Hester, Randolph T. Design for Ecological Democracy. Cambridge, MA MIT Press,
2010.
Hill, Jonathan. Actions of Architecture: Architects and Creative Users. London:
Routledge, 2003.
Holl, Steven, Juhani Pallasmaa, and Alberto Perez-Gomez. Questions of Perception.
San Francisco: William Stout, 2006.
Isozaki, Arata. Japan-Ness in Architecture. Translated by Sabu Kohso. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 2011.

Jackson, J.B. A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1994.
Jencks, Charles, and Karl Kropf, eds. Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary
Architecture. London Academy Press, 2006.
Julien, Francois. In Praise of Blandness: Proceeding from Chinese Thought and
Aesthetics. Translated by Paula Varsano. NY: Zone books, 2007.
Kamin, Blair. Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Knabb, Ken, ed. Situationist International Anthology. London: Bureau of Public
Secrets, 2007.
Koolhaas, Rem. Delerious New York. London: Monacelli, 1997 (1978).
Lavin, Silvia. Kissing Architecture. NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2012.
Leach, Neal, ed. Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 1997.
Leatherbarrow, David. Architecture Oriented Otherwise. NY: Princeton Architectural
Press, 2009.
. The Roots of Architectural Invention: Site, Enclosure, Materials. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1993.
. Surface Architecture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.
. Topographical Stories. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Malpas, Jeff, ed. The Place of Landscape: Concepts, Contexts, Studies. Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press, 2011.
McDonough, William. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. NY:
North Point Press, 2002.
Mikoleit, Anne, and Moritz Prckhauer. Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding
the City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.
Mitchell, William. E-Topia: "Urban Life, Jim - but Not as We Know It". Cambridge,
Mass: MIT Press, 1999.
Modena, Letizia. Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness: The Utopian Imagination in
an Age of Urban Crisis. London: routledge, 2011.
Moneo, Jos Rafael. Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight
Contemporary Architects2004.
Moore, Charles. Chambers of a Memory Palace: Cambridge, MA, 1994.
Mostafavi, Mohsen, ed. Ecological Urbanism. Frankfort: Lars Mller Publishers, 2010.
Moussavi, Farshid. The Function of Form: Actar
Harvard School of Design, 2009.
. The Function of Ornament. Cambridge, MA: Harvard School of Design
Actar, 2008.
Nesbitt, Kate. Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
1996.
Ockman, Joan, ed. Architecture Culture 1943-1968: A Documentary Anthology. NY:
Rizzoli Press, 1993.
Pallasmaa, Juhani. The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture.
NY: Wiley, 2011.
. The Eyes of the Skin. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
. The Thinking Hand. NY: Wiley, 2009.

Parr, Adrian, and Michael Zaretsky, eds. New Directions in Sustainable Design.
London: Routledge, 2010.
Poletto, Marco, and Claudia Pasquero. Systemic Architecture: Operating Manual for
the Self-Organizing City. London: Routledge, 2012.
Riley, Terence. The Unprivate House. NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1999.
Rossi, Aldo. The Architecture of the City. Translated by Diane Ghirardo and Joan
Ockman, Oppositions Books. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982.
Rowe, Colin, and Fred Koetter. Collage City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1978.
Rowe, Colin, and Robert Slutzky. "Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal." In The
Mathematics of the Ideal Villa. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1976.
Rykwert, Joseph. The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy
and the Ancient World. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1988.
Schneider, Daniel. Hybrid Nature. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.
Sennett, Richard. The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities. NY:
Knopf, 1990.
Shepard, Mark, ed. Sentient City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.
Smith, Cynthia E. Design for the Other 90%. Paris: Editions Assouline, 2007.
Smith, Korydon, ed. Introducing Architectural Theory: Debating a Discipline. London:
Routledge, 2012.
Sorkin, Michael. "Eutopia Now!" Harvard Design Magazine 31 (2009): 6-21.
Steane, Mary Ann. The Architecture of Light. London: Routledge, 2011.
Stevens., Karen A. Franck and Quentin, ed. Loose Space : Possibility and Diversity in
Urban Life. New York Routledge, 2007.
Stohr, Kate, and Cameron Sinclair, eds. Design Like You Give a Damn 2, Building
Change from the Ground Up: Architecture for Humanity. NY: Metropolis Books,
2006.
Taylor, William M., and Michael P. Levine. Prospects for and Ethics of Architecture.
London: Routledge, 2011.
Tschumi, Bernard. Architecture and Disjunction. Cambridge Mass: MIT Press, 1996.
Tschumi, Bernard, and Irene Chung, eds. The State of Architecture at the Beginning of
the 21st Century, Columbia Books of Architecture. NY: Monacelli Press, 2003.
Ulrich, Conrad, ed. Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1975.
Upton, Dell. Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.
Venturi, Robert. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. 2nd ed. NY: Museum
of Modern Art, 2002.
. Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of
Architectural Form. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1977.
Vidler, Anthony. The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in Modern Unhomely. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 1994.
Warner, Sam Bass, and Andrew H. Whittemore. American Urban Form: A
Representative History. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012.
Whyte, William Hollingsworth. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. L.A.: Direct
Cinema Ltd., 1988.
Yeang, Kenneth. The Green Skyscraper. NY: Prestel, 2000.

Zumthor, Peter. Atmospheres: Birkhuser, 2006.

. Thinking Architecture. 3rd ed. Basel: Birkhuser, 2010.