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Residential buildings: General resources

Recommended resources on individual shelter worldwide, from prehistory to now, providing location info for print resources and links for digital resources.

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Other resources

Real Estate websites:  ZillowTruliaRealtor.comHomes.comApartment GuideRent.com, and Apartments.com

Shelter blogs: Long-lived examples include Apartment Therapy (since 2004), Design Sponge (2004-2019), Not Martha (2001), Shelterrific (2006)

TV channels: DIY NetworkHome & Garden Television, and Home Channel

WikiHouse (“Open source construction set — print your own house”)

Recommended for all architectural research

Specialized resources on related topics

Durrett, Charles, The senior cohousing handbook - 2nd edition : a community approach to independent living, New Society Publishers, 2009 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Institute for Creative Sustainability, Cohousing cultures: handbook for self-organised, community-oriented and sustainable housing, Jovis, HD7287.7 .C652 2012

Institute for Creative Sustainability, Cohousing inclusive: self-organized, community-led housing for all, Jovis, HD7287.7 .C64 2017

Krokfors, Karin, “Co-housing in the making,” Built Environment, 2012, v.38, #3, p.308-314 (via JSTOR) 

Marckmann, Bella, et al, “Sustainable living and co-housing: evidence from a case study of eco-villages,” Built Environment, 2012, v.38, #3, p.413-429

Scott-Hansen, Chris & Kelly Scott-Hansen, “Chapter 8: Environment,” in The cohousing handbook: building a place for community, New Society, 2005 (via Ebook Central) 

Bergdoll, Barry, et al., Foreclosed: rehousing the American dream, Museum of Modern Art, NA2543.S6F672 2012

Bharne, Vinayak & Shyam Khandekar, Affordable housing, inclusive cities, ORO Editions, HD7287.95 .A43 2019

Chu, Lenora, “Ways and means,” Dwell, December/January 2006/2007, p. 194-202 (Affordable housing in Los Angeles)

Hofmeister, Sandra (editor), Affordable housing: cost-effective models for the future, Detail Business Information, NA7325 .W6413 2018

Kubey, Karen (editor), Housing as intervention: architecture towards social equity, John Wiley & Sons, NA2543.S6 H68 2018 (ebook also available via Ebook Central)

Lasner, Matthew Gordon, “Own-your-owns, Co-ops, Town Houses: Hybrid Housing Types and the New Urban Form in Postwar Southern California,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 2009, p. 378-403 (PDF via Jstor)

Minimum Cost Housing Group (McGill University)

National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (official site)

Smith, Cynthia E., et al., Design with the other 90%: cities, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, TS171.4.D488 2011

The Terner Center for Housing and Innovation  (The Terner Center at University of California, Berkeley, "leverages applied research and best practices to inform and advance innovation in the planning, financing, design and development of the built environment.")

Wells, Walker, Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing, Island Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Adler, Jane, “A home, not a hospital” Planning, June 2008, p. 24-25

Berkooz, Corry Buckwalter, “Support system: it takes more than housing to help the homeless,” Planning, June 2009, p. 24-25 

“Housing typologies for the elderly,” Detail, September 2012 (Theme issue)

Breaking Ground (“to strengthen individuals, families and communities by developing and sustaining exceptional supportive and affordable housing”)

Kucharek, Jan Carlos, “Village people,” Royal Institute of British Architects Journal, July/August 2011, p. 48-53 (“Contrasts housing for elderly in US and Great Britain”)

Marsden, John P., et al., “Educating LTC staff about therapeutic environments,” Journal of architectural & planning research, Spring 2003, p. 68-74

Olcayto, Rory, “A neglected sector: supported housing,” Architects' journal, May 7, 2009, p. 20-29

Boelhouwer, P. J., et al., Home Ownership: Getting in, Getting from, Getting Out, DUP Science, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

Builder (Monthly published monthly by the National Association of Home Builders)

Corr, Anders, No trespassing! Squatting, rent strikes, and land struggles worldwide, South End Press, HD7287.95.C67 1999

Desai, Mihir, et al., “Tax Incentives for Affordable Housing: The Low Income Housing Tax Credit,” Tax Policy and the Economy, Vol. 24, # 1, 2010, p. 181-205 (PDF via Jstor)

Foote, Christopher, et al., “Reducing Foreclosures: No Easy Answers,” NBER Macroeconomics Annual, Vol. 24, #1, 2009, p. 89-138 (PDF via Jstor)

Immergluck, Daniel, Foreclosed: High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining of America's Mortgage Market, Cornell University Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

New Residential Construction, United States Census Bureau

O'Looney, Brian, Increments of neighboorhood: a compendium of built types for walkable and vibrant communities, ORO Editions, HT166 .O46 2020

Schwartz, Subprime Nation: American power, global capital, and the housing bubble, Cornell University Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Schmitz, Adrienne, Multifamily housing development handbook, Urban Land Institute, HD7287.6.U5M85 2000

Allen, Edward, et al., Fundamentals of residential construction, John Wiley & Sons, TH4811.A463 2017 (Ebook also available via Proquest Ebook Central)

Bliss, Steven, Best practices guide to residential construction: materials, finishes, and details, John Wiley & Sons, TH4811.B583 2006

Cottrell, Michelle, Guide to the LEED AP homes exam, John Wiley & Sons, TH4860.C68 2012

Journal of Light Construction (monthly magazine)

Rumbarger, Janet, et al., Architectural graphic standards for residential construction, John Wiley & Sons, TH2031.A84254 2003

Zurich University of Applied Sciences Institute of Constructive Design (editor), At home in steel: residential construction in steel - thoughts of space and structure, Park Books, NA7180 .A8 2019

Black, Jeremy, History of Diplomacy, Reaktion, 2010 (ebook via Ebrary)

Gill Lui, Elizabeth, Building Diplomacy: the architecture of American embassies, Cornell University Press, NA4441.G555 2004

Gournay, Isabelle & Jane C. Loeffler, “Washington and Ottawa: A Tale of Two Embassies,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 2002, p. 480-507 (PDF via Jstor)

Keating, Kathy, et al., Our governors' mansions, Abrams, E159.K43 1997

Klingensmith, Samuel John, The utility of splendor : ceremony, social life, and architecture at the court of Bavaria, 1600-1800, NA7740.K55 1993

Loeffler, Jane C., The Architecture of Diplomacy, Princeton Architectural Press, NA441.L64 1998 (via Ebook Central)

Necipoğlu, Gülru, Architecture, ceremonial, and power: the Topkapi Palace in the 15th and 16th centuries, MIT Press, NA1370.N43 1991

The Purchase of Buildings for American Embassies, Legations and Consulates Abroad,” The American Journal of International Law, April 1911, p. 474-475 (PDF via Jstor)

Robin, Ron Theodore, Enclaves of America: the rhetoric of American political architecture abroad, 1900-1965, Princeton University Press, NA4441.R63 1992

Townsend, Heather & Casey Jones, Building Diplomacy (lecture at SCI-Arc October 24, 2012. via the SCI-Arc Media Archive)

Walton, Guy, Louis XIV’s Versailles, University of Chicago Press, NA7736.V5W35 1986

Aquilino, Marie Jeannine, Beyond shelter: architecture and human dignity, Metropolis Books, NA2543.S6B49 2011

Decker, Julie, et al., Quonset Hut: Metal Living for a Modern Age, Princeton Architectural Press, NA8480.Q66 2005 (ebook via SpringerLink)

Dörries, Cornelia & Sarah Zahradnik, Container and modular buildings: construction and design manual, DOM Publishers, TH1098 .C66 2019

Gans, Deborah, “The refugee camp: ecological disaster of today, metropolis of tomorrow,” Architectural design, March/April 2004, p. 82-86

Griswold, Eliza, "Everyone is an immigrant," Poetry, January 2012 (HTML full text via Poetry magazine)

"Migration crisis: migration to Europe explained in seven charts," BBC News, March 4, 2016

Prizeman, Mark, “Emergency dwelling,” Architectural design, July/August 2003, p. 57-63

Sphere Project (C.f. the Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response, revised 2011)

United Nations High Commission on Refugees (official website)

“Urgence! tents, sustainable shelters and other experiments,” Architecture d'aujourd'hui, May/June 2011 (Theme issue)

Women in Refugee Camps,” Signs, Spring 2007 (Theme issue)

Bormann, F. Herbert, et al., Redesigning the American Lawn, Yale University Press, SB433.B64 1993

Domestic Design Advice,” Journal of Design History, v. 16, #1, 2003 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)

Dreicer, Gregory K., et al., Between Fences, Princeton Architectural Press, S790.B48 1996

Floyd, Janet & Inga Bryden, Domestic space: reading the nineteenth-century interior, Manchester University Press, HQ613.D66 1999

Halle, David, Inside Culture: art and class in the American home, University of Chicago Press, N72.S6H32 1993

Lupton, Ellen & J. Abbott Miller, The Bathroom, the kitchen & the aesthetics of waste, Princeton Architectural Press, TD6.A1L87 1992

Praz, Mario, An Illustrated History of Interior Decoration, Thames & Hudson, NK1710.P713 1982

Ault, Bradley A. & Lisa C. Nevett, Ancient Greek houses and households, University of Pennsylvania Press, DF99.A53 2005

Barton, I. M., Roman Domestic Buildings, University of Exeter Press, NA310.R65 1996

Bergman, Bettina, ”The Roman House as Memory Theater: The House of the Tragic Poet in Pompeii,” The Art Bulletin, June 1994, p. 225-256 (PDF via Jstor)

Encyclopedia of Vernacular architecture of the world, Reference NA208.E53 1997 (See vol.1 for general issues)

Oliver, Paul, Dwellings: the house across the world, University of Texas Press, NA7125.O44 1987

Oliver, Paul, Shelter and Society, Praeger, GT171.O4

Qijun, Wang, Ancient Chinese Architecture: Vernacular Dwellings, Springer, NA1543.5.J813 2000

Schoenauer, Norbert, 6,000 years of housing, W. W. Norton, NA7125.S383 2000

Serlio, Sebastiano, et al., On Domestic Architecture, Dover, NA7109.S4713 1996

Architectural Record magazine published an annual Mid-May “Record Houses” issue from 1956 to 1990. See also November 1950 and 1955; and April 1993-9

Benjamin, Susan S., Modern in the middle: Chicago houses 1929-1975, The Monacelli Press, NA7238.C4 B46 2020

Benton, Tim, The Modernist home, Victoria & Albert Museum Publications, NA682.M63B46 2006

Bradbury, Dominic, Atlas of mid-century modern houses, Phaidon Press Limited, NA682.M63 B74 2021

Colomina, Beatriz, Domesticity at war, MIT Press, NA7208.C589 2007

Davies, Colin, Key houses of the twentieth century: plans, sections and elevations, W. W. Norton, Office NA7126.D38 2006

Eng, John & Adriene Biondo, Modern tract homes of Los Angeles, Schiffer, NA735.L55E55 2011

Friedman, Avi, "The Evolution of Design Characteristics during the Post-WW II Housing Boom," Journal of Design History, #2, 1995, p. 131-146 (PDF via Jstor)

Friedman, Avi & David Krawitz, Peeking Through the Keyhole: the evolution of north American homes, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002 (via Ebook Central)

G.A. Houses (Magazine published three or four times per year since 1976)

González de Canales, Francisco, et al., Experiments with life itself: radical domestic architectures between 1937 and 1959, Actar, NA680.G66 2012

"House Rules," Assemblage, # 24, 1994 (Theme issue)

Japan Architect magazine featured the "Shinkenchiku residential design competition,” in the January/February issue for 1969, 1970, 1972, and February 1976, and 1978; March issues for 1986, 1988, 1989; March 1990. Also see #5, Winter 1992; #13, Spring 1994; #28, Winter 1998; #32, Spring 1999

Lane, Barbara Miller, Housing and dwelling: perspectives on modern domestic architecture, Routledge, NA7110.H69 2007

Mennel, Timothy, ”Miracle House Hoop-La:  Corporate Rhetoric and the Construction of the Postwar American House,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 2005, p. 340-361 (PDF via Jstor)

Mosayebi, Elli & Michael Kraus (editors), The renewal of dwelling : European housing construction 1945-1975, Triest, NA958 .R46 2023

Pearson, Clifford A. & Thomas HineModern American houses: fifty years of design in Architectural Record, Abrams, NA7208.M56 2005

Randl, Chad, A-Frame, Princeton Architectural Press, NA7575.R35 2004

Riley, Terence, et al., The Un-Private House, Museum of Modern Art,  NA7126.R55 1999

Smith, Elizabeth A. T., et al., Blueprints for Modern Living: history and legacy of the case study houses, MIT Press, NA7235.C22S684 1989

Webb, Michael & Roger Straus, Modernism reborn: mid-century American houses, Universe, NA7208.W43 2001

“What is a house?” Arts & Architecture, July 1944. p. 22-39

Winton, “The Walker Art Center's "Idea House" Project and the Marketing of Domestic Design 1941-1947,” Journal of Design History, Vol. 17, #4, 2004, p. 377-396 (PDF via Jstor)

Wurster, Catherine Bauer, Modern housing, University of Minnesota Press, NA7550 .B3 2020

Architectural Record, "Record houses,” See the April issue for 2000-2016

Bowen,Ted Smalley, “Downsize me! Shrinking the McMansion diet,” Architectural record, November 2007, p. 40

Ishido, Takeshi, Contemporary Japanese houses, 1985-2005, Toto, NA7451.N545 2005

Japan Architect, "Shinkenchiku residential design competition,” See issues #36, 2000; #40, 2001; #44, 2002; #48, 2003; #52, 2004; #60, 2006; #64, 2007; #68, 2008; #73, 2009; #76, 2010

Pople, Nicolas, Experimental houses, Watson-Guptill Publications, NA7110.P67 2000

"The Transformable House," Architectural Design, July/August 2000 (Theme issue)

Trulove, James Grayson & Il Kim, The new American house 3, Whitney Library of Design, NA7208.N453 2001

Zeiger, Mimi, Tiny houses in cities, Rizzoli, NA7533.A453 2016

Allen, Polly Wynn, Building domestic liberty: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's architectural feminism, University of Massachusetts Press, PS1744.G57Z54 1988

Cowan, Ruth Schwartz, More work for mother: the ironies of household technology from the open hearth to the microwave, Basic Books, TX23.C64 1983

Friedman, Alice T., Women and the Making of the Modern House: a social and architectural history, Abrams, NA2543.W65F75 1998

Garber, Marjorie B., Sex and real estate: why we love houses, Pantheon Books, HQ536.G349 2000

Hayden, Dolores, The grand domestic revolution: a history of feminist designs for American homes, neighborhoods, and cities, MIT Press, HQ1426.H33 1981

Hayden, Dolores, Redesigning the American dream : the future of housing, work, and family life, W.W. Norton, HD7293 .H39 2002

Lupton, Ellen, Mechanical brides: women and machines from home to office, Princeton Architectural Press, HQ1420.L87 1993

Robertson, Una A., The Illustrated history of the housewife, 1650-1950, St. Martin's Press, HD8039.H842 G77

Spain, Daphne, Gendered Spaces, University of North Carolina Press, HQ1150.S68 1992

Takac, Balasz, "Inside Womanhouse, a beacon of feminist art," Widewalls, June 2, 2019

Womanhouse (archival materials via Judy Chicago Research Portal)

Wright, Gwendolyn, Moralism and the model home : domestic architecture and cultural conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913, University of Chicago Press, NA7238.C4W74

Cooper, Melinda, Family values : between neoliberalism and the new social conservatism, Zone Books, HQ728.C626 2017

Gallagher, Winifred, House thinking: a room-by-room look at how we live, HarperCollins, HD7293.G35 2006

Harris, Dianne Suzette, Little white houses: how the postwar home constructed race in America, University of Minnesota Press, NA2543.R37H37 2013

Hayden, Dolores, The grand domestic revolution : a history of feminist designs for American homes, neighborhoods, and cities, MIT Press, HQ1426.H33 1981

Hayden, Dolores, Redesigning the American dream : the future of housing, work, and family life, W.W. Norton, HD7293.H39 1984

Heidegger, Martin, “Building Dwelling Thinking,” Poetry language thought, Harper & Row, PN1031.H38

Hubka, Thomas C., How the working-class home became modern, 1900-1940, University of Minnesota Press, HD6983 .H83 2020

Kubey, Karen (Editor), Housing as intervention : architecture towards social equity, Wiley, NA2543.S6H68 2018

McLuhan, Marshall, Understanding media, McGraw-Hill, P90.M26 (Chapter 13, “Housing”)

Model, Method and Mediation in the History of Housing Design,” Journal of Design History, v. 23, #1, 2010 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)

Mukhija, Vinit, Remaking the American dream : the informal and formal transformation of single-family housing cities, MIT Press, HT123 .M74 2022

Norberg-Schulz, Christian, The Concept of dwelling, Rizzoli, NA2542.35.N67 1985

Rapoport, Amos, House, form and culture, Prentice-Hall, GN414.A1R33

Reed, Christopher (Editor), Not at home : the suppression of domesticity in modern art and architecture, Thames and Hudson, N8217.H66 N68 1995

Rykwert, Joseph, On Adam’s house in paradise, MIT Press, NA205.R9 1981

Taylor, Lisa, Housing: Symbol, structure, site, Rizzoli, HD72893.H7824 1990

Tuan, Yi-fu, Cosmos & hearth: a cosmopolite's viewpoint, University of Minnesota Press, E184.C5T84 1996

Tummers, Lidewij & Sherilyn MacGregor, “Beyond wishful thinking: a FPE perspective on commoning, care, and the promise of co-housing,” International Journal of the Commons, v. 13, #1, 2019, p. 62–83 (PDF available via Jstor)

Wright, Gwendolyn, Building the Dream: a social history of housing in America, Pantheon Books, HD7293.W74

Aue, Stefan, et al. (Editors), Housing after the neoliberal turn : international case studies, Spector Books, NA2543.S6H68 2015

Bauman, John F., et al., From tenements to the Taylor homes: in search of an urban housing policy in twentieth-century America, Pennsylvania State University Press, HD7293.F76 2000

Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, et al. (Editors), Public housing myths : perception, reality, and social policy, Cornell University Press, HD7288.77.P83 2015

Cisneros, Henry & Lora Engdahl, From despair to hope: Hope VI and the new promise of public housing in America's cities, Brookings Institution Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Cuff, Dana, The Provisional city: Los Angeles stories of architecture and urbanism, MIT Press, NA7238.L6C84 2000

Ellen, Ingrid Gould & Brendan O’Flaherty (editors), How to house the homeless, Russell Sage Foundation, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Glynn, Sarah, Where the other half lives: lower income housing in a neoliberal world, Pluto Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Groves, Rick, et al., Housing and the new welfare state: perspectives from East Asia and Europe, Ashgate, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Jamelle, Hina (editor), Under pressure : essays on urban housing, Routledge, HD7287 .U353 2022

Landis, John D. & Kirk McClure, “Rethinking federal housing policy,” Journal of the American Planning Association, Summer 2010, p. 319-348

Madden, David & Peter Marcuse, In defense of housing : the politics of crisis, Verso, HD7287.M33 2016

Reslock, Debbie Sullivan, “Housing for all? Homeless numbers are down, but there’s much work to do,” Planning, February 2016, p.34-38

Rosen, Eva, The voucher promise: "Section 8" and the fate of an American neighborhood, Princeton University Press, 2020 (via Ebook Central)

Schwartz, Alex F., Housing policy in the United States, Routledge, HD7293.S373 2015

Davis, Howard, Living over the store: architecture and local urban life, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Johnson, Laura C., “From hybrid housing to cybrid neighborhoods: case studies of five decentralized tele-workspaces,” Journal of architectural & planning research, Summer 2003, p. 136-152

Melhuish, Clare, “Home-working: the new peasantry or a regenerative impetus for cities?” Architectural review, March 2011, p. 29

Muller, Robert J., “The home-office building: living above the shop for 21st-century entrepreneurs,” Urban land, March/April 2012, p. 60-64

Nyren, Ron, “Top loft,” Urban land, May 2006, p. 40-44 (Ten loft projects)

OSHA Policy on Home-Based Worksites (official website)

Zukin, Sharon, Loft living: culture and capital in urban change, Johns Hopkins University Press, HD7304.N4Z84 1989

Albus, Jutta & Philipp Meuser, Prefabricated housing, DOM Publishers, TH4819.P7 A577 2018 Vol.1 & 2

Bernhardt, Arthur D., Building tomorrow: the mobile/manufactured housing industry, MIT Press, HD9715.7.U62B47

Dwyer, Daron, Shipping container homes : building a home using containers, [publisher not identified], NA2542.36 D89 2020

Fetters, Thomas T., The Lustron home: the history of a postwar prefabricated housing experiment, McFarland, TH4819.P7F48 2002

Habraken, N. J. & Jonathan Teicher, The Structure of the Ordinary, MIT Press, NA2760.H33 1998 (Chapter 16, "Systems Misunderstood")

Hogan-O'Neill, William J., Prefabricated and modular architecture : aligning design with manufacture and assembly, The Crowood Press, NA8480 .H74 2021

Kramer, Sibylle, Stack, cut, assemble ISO 668: how to use shipping containers in architecture, Braun, NA8480 .K73 2019

Manufactured Housing Institute (official website)

Minguet, Anna (editor), Container & prefab house plans, Instituto Monsa de Ediciones, NA7145 .C653 2019

Slawick, Han, et al (editors), Container Atlas: a practical guide to container architecture, Gestalten, NA8480.C6613 2020

Zamora Mola, Francesc, House in a week : prefab houses, Gingko Press, NA7145 .M65 2020

a+t Research Group, Why density? debunking the myth of the cubic watermelon, a+t, NA7860.W593 2015

Bowie, Duncan, Radical solutions to the housing supply crisis, Policy Press, HD7334.A3B69 2017

Canales, Fernanda, Shared structures, private space: housing in Mexico, Actar, NA7244 .C33913 2020

Chey, Katy, Multi-unit housing in urban cities : from 1800 to present day, Routledge, NA7860.C49 2018

Fernández Per, Aurora, 10 stories of collective housing : graphical analysis of inspiring masterpieces, a+t, NA7860 F472 2013

Grant, Thurman & Joshua G. Stein, Dingbat 2.0: the iconic Los Angeles apartment as projection of a metropolis, DoppelHouse Press, NA7862 .L67D58 2016

Hildner, Claudia, Future living: collective housing in Japan, Birkhäuser, NA7863.J3 H55x 2014 (ebook also available via Ebook Central)

Housing and Community Design Awards, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University

Manovel Marñio, Luis, Penshirubiru : el limite de la vivienda colectiva en Jaópn = collective housing in Japan taken to its limit, General de Ediciones de Arquitectura, NA1555.6 .P46 2021

Molina, Emily Tumpson, Housing America : issues and debates, Routledge/Taylo​r & Francis Group, HD7293.M635 2017

Sherwood, Roger, Modern housing prototypes, Harvard University Press, NA7126.S48 [1978]

Steixner, Gerhard & Maria Welzig (editors), Luxury for all: milestones in European stepped terrace housing, Birkhauser, NA7521 .L89 2020

Storey, Glenn R. "The Meaning of "Insula" in roman residential terminology," Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, #49, 2004, p. 47-84 (PDF via Jstor)

Wietzorrek, Ulrike, Housing+ : on thresholds, transitions, and transparencies, Birkhäuser, NA7860.H68 2014

Aravena Mori, Alejandro, et al, Elemental, Phaidon, NA865.6 .A66 2018

Aravena Mori, Alejandro & Andrés Iacobelli (editors), Elemental : incremental housing and participatory design manual, Hatje Cantz, NA7301 .E44 2016

Austen, Ben, High-risers : Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing, Harper, HD7288.78.U52 C425 2018

Boughton, John, A history of council housing in 100 estates, RIBA Publishing, HD7288.78.G7 B677 2023

Fennell, Catherine, Last project standing : civics and sympathy in post-welfare Chicago, University of Minnesota Press, HD7288.78.U52 C434 2015

Figuerola, Caterina & Ibon Bilbao (editors), Gestating / living : Barcelona's social housing strategies, Barcelona City Council : Barcelona Housing Authority; Architects' Association of Catalonia-COAC, HD7351.B3 G47 2023

LaFond, Michael & Larisa Tsvetkova (editors), CoHousing Inclusive : self-organized, community-led housing for all, Jovis Verlag, HD7287.7 .C64 2017

Lynch, Nnenna, Housing redux, Yale School of Architecture, HD7288.78.U52 L96 2023

“Architecture + film II,” Architectural Design, January 2000 (Theme issue)

Bailey, Dale, American nightmares: the haunted house formula in American popular fiction, Bowling Green State University Press, PS374.H33B35 1999 (ebook via Ebook Central)

Bhimji, Zarina, et al., No place (like home), Walker Art Center, N6487.M56W356

Brunsdon, Charlotte, “Feminism, Postfeminism, Martha, Martha, and Nigella,” Cinema Journal, Winter 2005, p. 110-116 (PDF via Jstor)

Dirt and Domesticity, The Whitney Museum of American Art, N72.F45D57 1992

“Doll’s Houses,” Architectural Design, March/April 1983 (Theme issue)

Fear, Bob, "Evil Residence: the house and the horror film," Architectural Design, January 2000, p. 36-41

Fraiman, Susan, “Shelter Writing: Desperate Housekeeping from Crusoe to Queer Eye,” New Literary History, Spring, 2006, p. 341-359 (PDF via Jstor)

Haran, Barnaby, “Homeless Houses: Classifying Walker Evans's Photographs of Victorian Architecture,” Oxford Art Journal, v. 33, #2, 2010, p. 191-210 (PDF via Jstor)

Hine, Thomas, “Movie houses: modernist homes, in star or cameo roles, grace the silver screen,” Architectural record, April 2002, p. 80-86

Jurca, Catherine, "Hollywood, the dream house factory," Cinema Journal, Summer 1998, p. 19-36 (PDF via Jstor)

Mark Bennett (via ArtNet) began making lithographic blueprints of famous fictional television houses in the mid-1990s (see “Teleburbia,” Architecture, August 1997), and now his work is copied widely.

Papapetros, Spyros, “Malicious Houses: Animation, Animism, Animosity in German Architecture and Film,” Grey Room, #20. Summer 2005, p. 6-37 (PDF via Jstor)

Prince, Valerie Sweeney, Burnin' down the House: home in African American literature, Columbia University Press, 2005 (ebook via Ebook Central)

Reed, Christopher, Not At Home: suppression of domesticity in modern art and architecture, Thames & Hudson, N8217.H66N68 1996

Smyth, Gerry & Jo Croft, Our House: the representation of domestic space in modern culture, Rodopi, 2006 (ebook via Ebook Central)

Bernard, Murrye, "Hives for minds," Architect, February 2013, p. 56-60

Jerschow, Oliver, "Room to Grow," Urban Land, February 2000, p. 128

Larson, Soren, “Redoing the dorm: a new era for housing,” Architectural record, March 2000, p. 34

Newton, Clare, "Housing students," Architecture Australia, July/August 2006, p. 96-101

Painter, Susan, “Building the student housing village: mixed-use campus housing.” Urban land, May 2009, p. 69-72

Yanni, Carla, Living on campus: an architectural history of the American dormitory, University of Minnesota Press, NA6602.D6 Y36 2019

Young, Eleanor, “Building for the new class,” Royal Institute of British Architects Journal, April 2003, p. 60-66

Brimblecombe, Robin & Kara Rosemeier, Positive energy homes : creating passive houses for better living, CSIRO Publishing, 2017 (via Ebook Central)

Corner, Donald, et al, Passive house details: solutions for high-performance design, Routledge, TH4860 .C665 2018

Craswell, Penny, Reclaimed : new homes from old materials, Thames & Hudson, TH4860 .C73 2023

Denzer, Anthony, The Solar house: pioneering sustainable design, Rizzoli, TH7414.D48 2013

Friedman, Avi, Innovative houses: concepts for sustainable living, Lawrence King Publishing, TH4860.F6795 2013

Flueckiger, Urs Peter, How much house? : Thoreau, Le Corbusier and the sustainable cabin, Birkhäuser, NA7533.F58 2016

Gonzalo, Roberto, Passive house design, Edition Detail, NA2542.3.P377 2014

Kellner, Jessica, Housing Reclaimed: sustainable architecture for next to nothing, New Society Publishers, HD7287.55.K45 2011

Nicol, Lee Ann, Sustainable collective housing : policy and practice for multi-family dwellings, Routledge, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Serrats, Marta, 150 Best Eco-Houses, Collins Design, TH4860.A12 2010

Spirandelli, Beatrice, The Ecological house: sustainable architecture around the world, White Star Publishers, Oversize shelf NA2542.36.M657 2011

Wells, Walker, et al., Blueprint for greening affordable housing, Island Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Zeiger, Mimi, Micro Green: tiny houses in nature, Rizzoli, NA2542.36 Z45 2011

Ackerman, James S., The Villa; form and ideology of country houses, Princeton University Press, NA7560.A34 1990

"Building Arcadia," Architectural Design, May/June 1993 (Special issue)

Downing, A. J., The Architecture of country houses, Dover NA7561.D75 1969 (originally published 1850)

Girouard, Mark, Life in the English country house, a social and architectural history, Yale University Press, HT653.G7G57

Kubelik, Martin, “Palladio's Villas in the Tradition of the Veneto Farm,” Assemblage , #1, October 1986 (PDF via Jstor)

Rykwert, Joseph, The villa: from ancient to modern, Abrams, NA7580.R94 2000

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