Architectural education: General resources

Derrida, Jacques, & Eric Prenowitz, “Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression,” Diacritics, Vol.25, #2, (1995), p.9–63 

Foster, Hal, “An Archival Impulse,” October, Vol.110 (2004), p.3–22 

Lavin, Sylvia, “Today We Collect Everything,” Perspecta, Vol.48 (2015), p.182–91 

SAA Dictionary of archives terminology

Sekula, Allan, “The Body and the Archive,” October, Vol.39 (1986), p.3–64 

Shetty, Sandhya, & Elizabeth Jane Bellamy, "Review of Postcolonialism’s Archive Fever, by Jacques Derrida, Eric Prenowitz, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Cary Nelson, and Lawrence Grossberg," Diacritics, Vol.30, #1 (2000), p.25–48 

Tagg, John, “The Archiving Machine; or, The Camera and the Filing Cabinet,” Grey Room, #47 (2012), p.24–37 

Wigley, Mark, “Unleashing the Archive,” Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism, Vol.2, #2 (2005), p.10–15

Alexakos, Konstantinos, Being a teacher/researcher : a primer on doing authentic inquiry research on teaching and learning, Sense Publishers; BRILL, 2015 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Bain, Ken, What the best college teachers do, Harvard University Press, LB2331 .B34 2004

Crowther, Philip & Mahmoud Reza Saghai, “Integrating Technology Subjects with Design Studio Teaching: Comparing Curriculum of Architecture Education in Australia and Iran,” ArchNet - IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research, November 2021, p.652–67 (PDF via Semantic Scholar)

Goldstein, Mitch, How to be a design student : (and how to teach them), Princeton Architectural Press, NK1170 .G653 2023

Özten Anay, Meltem, “Design Thinking to Familiarize Hearing-Impaired Architectural Drafting Students with Human-Centered Design Concept,” ICONARP: International Journal of Architecture and Planning, vol. 8, no. 1, June 2020, pp. 62–87 (PDF via ICONARP)

Reza Saghafi, Mahmoud, “Teaching Strategies for Linking Knowledge Acquisition and Application in the Architectural Design Studio,” ArchNet - IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research, Vol.15, #2, July 2021, p.401–15 (downloadable PDF via ResearchGate) 

Ritchie, Laura, Fostering self-efficacy in higher education students, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

VanWynsberghe, Robert, Adaptive education : an inquiry-based institution, University of Toronto Press, 2016 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Weston, Anthony, Teaching as the art of staging : a scenario-based college pedagogy in action, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Binder, Thomas, et al, Design things, MIT Press, 2011 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Boelens, Jan, et al, Design as learning : a school of schools reader, Valiz, NK1170 .D48 2018

Citizen architect [videorecording] : Samuel Mockbee and the spirit of the Rural Studio / directed and edited by Sam Wainwright Douglas, Big Beard Films, NA2111.C58 2010 (Media shelf)

Coetzer, Nicholas, "SEA and the Painted Shadow," Journal of Architectural Education, 78, Vol.1, 2024, p.66–74 (On the School of Explorative Architecture, Africa’s first independent nonprofit school of architecture, and its curriculum) (Available via Taylor & Francis Online)

De Mars, Vernon, “Planning: the educational problem,” Journal of Architectural Education (1947-1974), Vol.13, #2, 1958, p.26-29 (PDF via JStor)

Dutta, Arindam, A second modernism: MIT, architecture, and the 'techno-social' moment, MIT Press, NA2300.M4S43 2013

Frank, Marie, “The theory of pure design and American architectural education in the early twentieth Century,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 2008, p.248-273 (PDF via JStor)

Jones, Barclay Gibbs, “Teaching city planning to architects,” Journal of Architectural Education, Autumn 1958, p.36-40. (PDF via JStor)

Lamunière, Inès, et al, Teaching architecture: a dialogue, Birkhauser, NA2000 .L3613 2019

“Literary methods in architectural education,” Writingplace: journal for architecture and literature, #1, PN56.A73L58 2018

Lupton, Ellen &  J. Abbott Miller, (editors), The ABC's of [triangle square circle] : the Bauhaus and design theory, Princeton Architectural Press, N332.G33 B413 2019

Ruan, Xing, “Accidental affinities: American Beaux-Arts in twentieth-century Chinese architectural education and practice,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians/, March 2002, p.30-47 (PDF via JStor)

Smith, Benjamin J., “With and without walls: The Southern California Institute of Architecture and a New School of Los Angeles Architects in the 1970s and 1980s,” PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, 2016 (PDF via https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/133239)        

Sunwoo, Irene (Editor), In progress: the IID Summer Sessions, AA, NA2300.I5 2016

Williams, Wayne A. & Janice Rieger, “A design of design: complexity, criticality, and cultural competence,” Canadian Art Review, Vol.40, #2, 2015, p.15-21 (PDF via JStor)

Agkathidis, Asterios, Generative design, Laurence King, NA2728 .A35 2015

Cross, Nigel, "A history of design methodology," The Open University (United Kingdom); University of Delft (Netherlands), 1993 (PDF via monoskop.org)

Hearn, Millard Fillmore, Ideas that shaped buildings, MIT Press, NA2500 .H379 2003

Jormakka, Kari, et al, Design methods, Birkhauser, NA2750 .J649 2014

Maisel, Jordana, et al, Inclusive design : implementation and evaluation, Routledge, NA2750 .M185 2018

Oosterhuis, Kas, et al, Hyperbody : first decade of interactive architecture, Jap Sam Books, NA2542.4 .H96 2012

Brown, Denise Scott, “On Formal Analysis as Design Research,” JAE, Vol.32, #4, 1979, p.8–11 (PDF via Jstor)

Colomina, Beatriz, et al., Radical pedagogies, MIT Press, NA2000 .R33 2022

Groat, Linda N. and David Wang, Architectural research methods, Wiley, 2013 (ebook via Ebook Central)

Hamraie, Aimi, “Universal design research as a new materialist practice,” Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol.32, #4, 2012

Kieran, Stephen, “Research in Design: planning doing monitoring learning,” Journal of Architectural Education, September 2007, Vol.61, #1, p.27-31 (PDF via JSTOR)

Lucas, Ray, Research methods for architecture, Laurence King Publishing, 2016, NA2000 .L83 2016

Lyon, Philippa, Design education : learning, teaching and researching through design, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Sachs, Avigail, “The Postwar Legacy of Architectural Research,” Journal of Architectural Education, Feb. 2009, v.62, #3, p.53-64 (PDF via JSTOR)

Song, Lily, "Toward reparative design pedagogies: futuring green infrastructures with youth in the Black Belt South," Journal of Architectural Education, Vol.77, #1, Spring 2023, p.52-65

van Schaik, Leon & Anna Johnson (editors), By Practice, by Invitation : Design Practice Research in Architecture and Design at RMIT, 1986-2011, Actar, 2019 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Wortham, B.D., “The way we think about the way we think: architecture is a paradigm for reconsidering research” Journal of Architectural Education, Sept. 2004, v.61, #1, p.44-53 (PDF via JSTOR)

Andia, Alfredo, “Reconstructing the effects of computers on practice and education during the past three decades,” Journal of Architectural Education, September 2002, p.7-13 (PDF via Jstor)                   

Bates, Donald, et al (edtors), Studio futures : changing trajectories in architectural education, Uro Publications, NA2000 .S86 2015

Brown, Denise Scott, “On Formal Analysis as Design Research,” JAE, Vol.32, #4, 1979, p.8–11 (PDF via Jstor)

Cho, Ji Young, "The process of aesthetic education in design studio: a layperson's acculturation to the architecture and design community," Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, Vol.30, #4, 2013, p.328-43 (PDF via Jstor)

Middlebrook, James, and Katherine Maines, "The introductory architecture studio revisited: exploring the educational potential of design-build within a liberal arts context." Journal of Architectural Education, Vol.70, #1, 2016, p.154-164

Stonorov, Tolya (editor), The Design-Build Studio : Crafting Meaningful Work in Architecture Education, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017 (via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Varnelis, Kazys, “Is There Research in the Studio?” Journal of Architectural Education (1984-), Vol.61, #1, 2007, p.11–14 (PDF via Jstor)

Westfall, Carroll William, “Why the Orders Belong in Studio,” Journal of Architectural Education, May 2008 (PDF via Jstor)

Fisher, Thomas, Ethics for architects: 50 dilemmas of professional practice, Princeton Architectural Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Fox, Warwick (ed.), Ethics and the built environment, Routledge, 2000 (via Ebook Central)

Kanaani, Mitra, “Paradoxes of architecture in the age of bewilderment: the ironies of a professional ethos,” Journal of Architectural Education, March 2010, p. 144-145 (PDF via JSTOR)

Kingwell, Mark, The ethics of architecture, Oxford University Press, NA2500 .K49 2021

Leydens, Jon A. & Juan C. Lucena, Engineering justice : transforming engineering education and practice, Wiley, T65.E58 2018

Spector, Tom, The ethical architect: the dilemma of contemporary practice, Princeton Architectural Press, 2001 (via Ebook Central)

Ahmed, Sara, Complaint!, Duke University Press, LC212.86 .A364 2021

Barac, Matthew, “Women in academia,” Architectural Review, October 2013, p.112-113

Baszile, Denise Taliaferro, et al (editors), Race, gender, and curriculum theorizing : working in womanish ways, Lexington Books, 2016 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Burns, Karen, “Gender in the contemporary architectural theory anthology,” Journal of Architectural Education, March 2012, p.125-134

Clausen, Meredith, “The Ecole Des Beaux-arts: toward a gendered history,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 2010 (PDF via Jstor)

Darling, Elizabeth & Lynne Walker (Editors), AA Women in architecture 1917-2017, AA Publications, NA1997.A3 2017

Groat & Ahrentzen, “Voices for change in architectural education: seven facets of transformation from the perspectives of faculty women,” Journal of Architectural Education, May 1997 (PDF via Jstor)

Alexander, Zeynep Çelik, Kinaesthetic knowing : aesthetics, epistemology, modern design, University of Chicago Press, BH221.G3 A44 2017

Borden, Iain and Jane Rendell, Intersections: architectural histories and critical theories, Routledge, NA190 .I58 2000

Crysler, C. Greig, Writing spaces: discourses of architecture, urbanism, and the built environment, 1960-2000, Routledge, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Hartoonian, Gevork, Mental life of the architectural historian: reopening the early historiography of modern architecture, Cambridge Scholars, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Keyvanian, Carla, “Teaching history to architects,” Journal of Architectural Education, March 2011, p.25-36

Lubell, Claire & Rafico Ruiz (editors), Fugitive archives : a sourcebook for centring Africa in histories of architecture, Canadian Centre for Architecture and Jap Sam Books, NA2273 .F84 2023

Mitášová, Monika (editor), Oxymoron and pleonasm: conversations on American critical and projective theory of architecture, Actar, NA2500 .O984 2014

Morgan, Diane, Kant for architects, Routledge, B2797 .M67 2018

Smith, Korydon H., Introducing architectural theory: debating a discipline, Routledge, NA2500 .S555 2012

Sykes, A. Krista (editor), Constructing a new agenda: architectural theory 1993-2009, Princeton Architectural Press, Office-NA2500.C598 2010

Tavares, André, The anatomy of the architecture book, Lars Müller Publishers, NA2540 .T38 2016

Teal, Randall. “Foundational History: an integrated approach to basic design, history, and theory,” Journal of Architectural Education, March 2011, p.37-45

Vidler, Anthony, Histories of the immediate present: inventing architectural modernism, MIT Press, NA682.M63 V53 2008

Wright, Gwendolyn, and Janet Parks (editors), The history of history in American schools of architecture, 1865-1975, Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and Princeton Architectural Press, NA2105 .H581 1990

Anderson, Robert L., "The function of history in architectural education," Journal of Architectural Education (1947-1974), Vol.4, Winter 1949, p.30-35 (via JStor)

Collins, Peter, “The eighteenth century origins of our system of full-time architectural schooling,” JAE, Vol.33, #2, 1979, p.2–6 (PDF via Jstor)

Dutta, Arindam, A second modernism : MIT, architecture, and the 'techno-social' moment, MIT Press, NA2300.M4 S43 2013

Freire, Paulo, Education for critical consciousness, Bloomsbury Academic, LC191.8.L29 F7413 2021

Freire, Paulo, Pedagogy of the oppressed, Seabury Press, LB880 .F7313 1974 (also available as an ebook via Proquest Ebook Central, published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2014)

Frichot, Hélène, Creative ecologies : theorizing the practice of architecture, Bloomsbury, NA2500 .F7375 2019

hooks, bell, Teaching to transgress : education as the practice of freedom, Routledge, LC196 .H66 1994

Johnston, George Barnett, Assembling the architect: the history and theory of professional practice, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, NA1995 .J64 2020

"Jubilee issue," Journal of Architectural Education (1984-), Vol.40, #2, Winter 1987. [Special issue dedicated to the "inquiry and assessment of the nature of knowledge and its relationship to architecture and architectural education" (p.1).]

Loosen, Sebastiaan, et al (editors), The figure of knowledge: conditioning architectural theory, 1960s-1990s, Leuven University Press, 2020 (PDF via JStor) 

Mareis, Claudia & Nina Paim (editors), Design struggles : intersecting histories, pedagogies, and perspectives, Valiz, NK1510 .D4768 2021

Marjanović, Igor, et al (editors), The evolving project: the Journal of Architectural Education and the expansion of scholarship, ORO Editions, NA2105 .E96 2021

Martin, Reinhold, Knowledge worlds : media, materiality, and the making of the modern university, Columbia University Press, LB2322.2 .M3677 2021

Mitrović, Ivica, et al (editors), Beyond speculative design : past - present - future, SpeculativeEdu; Arts Academy, University of Split, Library Office-NK1520 .B496 2021

Pfammatter, Ulrich, The making of the modern architect and engineer: the origins of and development of a scientific and industrially oriented education, Birkhauser, NA2000 .P43 2000

Picon, Antoine,  “‘From Poetry of Art’ to Method: The Theory of Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand,” in Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand's, Précis of the Lectures on Architecture, Getty Research Institute, 2000, p.1-68 (via Getty Publications)

Spiller, Neil & Nic Clear (editors), Educating architects : how tomorrow's practitioners will learn today, Thames & Hudson, NA2000 .E39 2014

Teal, Randall, "Foundational history: an integrated approach to basic design history and theory," Journal of Architectural Education (1984-), Vol.64, #2, 2011, p.37-45 (PDF via Jstor) 

Ackerman, J., “Architectural Practice in the Italian Renaissance,” Distance Points: Essays in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture, MIT Press, p. 361–384, N6370 .A26 1991

Cerasi, Maurice, “Late-Ottoman Architects and Master Builders,” Muqarnas, 1988, p.87-102 (PDF via JSTOR)

Cohen, Jeffrey A., “Building a discipline: early institutional settings for architectural education in Philadelphia, 1804-1890,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 1994, p.139-183 (PDF via Jstor)

Collins, Peter, “The Eighteenth Century Origins of Our System of Full-Time Architectural Schooling,” JAE, Vol.33, #2, 1979, p.2–6 (PDF via Jstor)

Coulton, G.G., “Artist Life in the Middle Ages,” The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs,” September 1912, p.336, 340-344 (PDF via JSTOR)

Cram, Ralph Adams, “The Craftsman and the Architect,” Art and Progress, October 1913, p.1119–1131. (PDF via JSTOR)

Cret, Paul P., “The Ecole des Beaux-Arts and architectural education,” The Journal of the American Society of Architectural Historians, April 1941, p.3-15 (PDF via JStor)

Foyle, Jonathan, "What was Expected of the Bright Young Thing in the Later 18th Century?" Architects' Journal, February 23, 2006, p.39-41.

Hull, Judith S., “The ‘School of Upjohn’: Richard Upjohn's Office,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 1993, p.281–306 (PDF via JSTOR)

Johnston, George Barnett, Assembling the architect: the history and theory of professional practice, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, NA1995 .J64 2020

Kostof, Spiro (ed.), The Architect: Chapters in the History of the Profession, Oxford University Press, 1977. Including …

• Ettlinger, L. (1977), “The Emergence of the Italian Architect during the Fifteenth Century,” p.96–123.

• Kostof, S. (1977), “The Architect in the Middle Ages, East and West,” p.59–93.

• Wilkinson, C. (1977), “The New Professionalism in the Renaissance,” p.124-160.

Levine, Neil, “The competition for the Grand Prix in 1824: a case study in architectural education at the École des Beaux-Arts,” in The Beaux-Arts and Nineteenth-Century French Architecture, Robin Middleton (editor), MIT Press, NA2310.F8 E33, p.67-123

Merrill, E.M., “The Trattato as Textbook: Francesco di Giorgio’s Vision for the Renaissance Architect,” Architectural Histories, (Full text via https://journal.eahn.org/articles/10.5334/ah.at/)

Picon, Antoine, “From ‘Poetry of Art’ to Method: The Theory of Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand,” in Précis of the Lectures on Architecture by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand, Getty Research Institute, 2000, p.1-68 (Downloadable PDF via Getty Publications Virtual Library)

Rykwert, Joseph, “On the Oral Transmission of Architectural Theory,” AA Files, #6, 1984, p.14–27 (PDF via Jstor)

White, Lynn, “Medieval Engineering and the Sociology of Knowledge,” Pacific Historical Review, February 1975, p.1–21. (PDF via JSTOR)

Woods, Mary N., From craft to profession: the practice of architecture in nineteenth-century America, University of California Press, NA1996 .W64 1999

Anthony, Kathryn H., “Designing for Diversity: Implications for Architectural Education in the Twenty-first Century,” Journal of Architectural Education, May 2002, (PDF via Jstor)

Berke, Deborah, “Making the mold: the lack of diversity in architecture isn’t a simple problem, but there are better and worse ways to approach the issue,” Architect, July 2012, p.35-36

"Can we teach an anti-racist architectural history? A toolkit for future workshops" 

Center for the Study of Practice, University of Cincinnati, African American architects and their education: a demographic study, Winter 2009 (Downloadable PDF available via 1library.net)

Dozier, Richard K., “The Black Architect at Yale,” Design Quarterly, 1971, #82/83, p.16-18 (PDF via Jstor)

Gürel, Meltem Ö, and Kathryn H. Anthony, “The Canon and the Void: Gender, Race, and Architectural History Texts,” Journal of Architectural Education, February 2006, p.66-76 (PDF via Jstor)

Harney, Stefano, & Fred Moten, The undercommons : fugitive planning & black study, Minor Compositions, E185.86 .H328 2013

la paperson, A third university is possible, University of Minnesota Press, LC71 .L36 2017

McClung, Kiwana T., "Diversity and equity issues in design: course creation as impetus for compassionate and inclusive design," Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 107th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, 2019

Sutton, Sharon Egretta, When ivory towers were black : a story about race in America's cities and universities, Empire State Editions, NA2300.C635S87 2017

Tayob, Huda & Suzanne Hall, Race, space and architecture: towards an open-access curriculum, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Sociology, 2019 (Ebook PDF)

WAI Think Tank, A manual of anti-racist architecture education, Loudreaders, 2020 (downloadable PDF via waithinktank.com)

Walters, Kelly, Black, Brown + Latinx design educators : conversations on design and race, Princeton Architectural Press, NX650.R34 W35 2021

Wilkins, Craig L., Diversity among architects: from margin to center, Routledge, NA1995 .W55 2016

Wilkins, Craig L., “Race and diversity: African Americans in architecture education,” in Architecture School: Three centuries of educating architects in North America, by Joan Ockman, MIT Press, NA2105.A73 2012

Zewolde, Solomon, et al, "‘Race’ and space: a new curriculum for the built environment," The Bartlett, UCL Faculty of the Built Environment, 2020 (downloadable PDF)

Ahrens, Chandler & Aaron Sprecher (editors), Instabilities and potentialities : notes on the nature of knowledge in digital architecture, Routledge, NA2500 .I555 2019

"AI time," The Plan Journal, Vol.8, #2, Fall 2023 (Theme issue)

Alexander, Zeynep Çelik & John May (editors), Design technics : archaeologies of architectural practice, University of Minnesota Press, NA2750 .D4166 2020

"Artificial intelligence," CLOG, #16, 2018 (Theme issue)

Binder, Thomas, et al, Design things, MIT Press, 2011 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Carpo, Mario, The second digital turn : design beyond intelligence, MIT Press, NA2543.T43 C37 2017

Esquivel, Gabriel (Editor), Design technology and digital production : an architecture anthology, Routledge, NA2728 .D47 2023

Rehm, M. Casey, "Other experts: disciplinary and aesthetic impacts of artificial intelligence," Architectural Design, September/October 2020, p.14-21

Chaillou, Stanislas, Artificial intelligence and architecture : from research to practice, Birkhauser, TA347.A78 C43 2022

Komarzyńska-Świeściak, et al, “Transition from Physical Design Studio to Emergency Virtual Design Studio. Available Teaching and Learning Methods and Tools - a Case Study,” Buildings: An Open Access Journal for the Built Environment 2021, Vol.11, #7 p.1–21 (via ResearchGate)

Leach, Neil, Architecture in the age of artificial intelligence : an introduction for architects, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, NA2543.T43 L43 2022

LeBrasseur, Richard, “Digital Review Sessions: Student Perceptions of Digital Tablets in Design Studio Review and Desk Critique” Landscape Journal 2020, Vol.39, #2, p.17–30

Price, Rebecca & Niya Stoimenova, “Exploring the nuances of designing (with/for) artificial intelligence,” Design Issues, 2020, Vol.36, #4, p. 45–55 (PDF via arxiv.org)