Media & communications buildings: General resources

International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (Annual event since 1998)

Madden, Lester, Professional Augmented Reality Browsers for Smartphones, John Wiley & Sons, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Mullen, Tony, Prototyping Augmented Reality, Wiley, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

O’Donnell, Caroline (editor), The Cornell journal of architecture. 10, Spirits, Cornell AAP Publications, NA1.C68 2016 #10

Rabbi, Ihsan & Sehat Ullah, “A survey on augmented reality challenges and tracking,” Acta Graphica, v. 24, #1/2, 2013 (via semanticsscholar.org)

Ross, Christine, “Spatial poetics: the (non)destinations of augmented reality art, part I,” Afterimage, September/October 2010, p.19-24 (Part II, November/December 2010, p.16-20)

Self, Jack, “Digital natives and the death of the desk: a glimpse into the future of work,” Architectural Review, January 2011, p.22

Major out-of-home advertising services like Clear Channel Outdoor, JDecaux, Lamar, and OUTFRONT Media, provide billboards, digital billboards, small screens, bus graphics, etc.

Gudis, Catherine, Buyways: billboards, automobiles, and the American landscape, Routledge, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

Jakle, John A. & Keith A. Sculle, Signs in America's Auto Age: signatures of landscape and place, University of Iowa Press, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

MMT (Large-format sign production)

Noever, Peter & Kimberli Meyer, How many billboards?: art in stead, Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nümberg, N8217.A35 H69 2010

Olmstead, Frederick Law, Jr., “Reform in Public Advertising,” Brush and Pencil, September 1900, p.247-249, 251-253, 255-256 (PDF via Jstor)

Sign Industry.com (Professional resources & links)

… Also see tab: “DIGITAL OUT-OF-HOME (DOOH) ADVERTISING”

Heinich, Nadin, “Beyond Blade Runner,” Topos, 2016, #95, p.96-101

Media Architecture Compendium, produced by the Media Architecture Institute

Townsend, Alastair et al, “Data-driven cities,” A & U: Architecture & Urbanism, November 2014 (Theme issue)

… Several digital façade systems are currently being produced, including Blip, MediaGlass, and MediaMesh.

Captivate Network (“more than 10,000 office elevator displays across North America”)

Côté, Rob, “What is DOOH media?,” Broadsign, May 9, 2018, (Blog post via broadsign.com)  

Digital Signage Expo, (“The world's largest international trade show dedicated to digital signage, interactive technology, and Out-of-Home networks,” sponsored by Digital Signage Connection newsblog.)

Digital Signage Today (Industry news)

International Dark Sky Association (Advocating “to protect wildlife, cut energy waste and stop light pollution”)

Mobile Marketing Association

Watchel, Jerry, “Digital billboards, distracted drivers,” Planning, March 2011, p.25-27

Brown, Brian, “Re-picturing the ‘post-Fordist’ Motor City: commissioned street art in Downtown Detroit,” Architecture_MPS, September 2017 (via scienceopen.com)

“Graffiti,” Oxford Art Online

Graffiti Archaeology Project (Documentation of walls in L.A., SF and NYC over time)

Kurlansky, Mervyn & Jon Naar, The faith of graffiti, Praeger, GT3913. N72 N44 (Oversize shelf)

Paul 107, All-City: The Book about Taking Space, Independent Publishers Group, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Roundtree, Al, “Graffiti artists "get up" in intellectual property's negative space,” Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, v. 31, #3, 2013 (Full text pdf via http://www.cardozoaelj.com)

Baboulet, Luc et al, "Histoire(s) du Kosque," AMC le Moniteur Architecture, May 1999, p.66-87 (French text)

Cook, Peter, “Not to be taken seriously: kiosks, roadside joys and other things that are beneath architectural contempt,” Architectural Design, May/June 2015, p.56-63

“Kiosk,” Oxford Art Online

Kiosk Marketplace (Industry news)

"Micro architettura," Domus, October 1997 (On kiosks)

Pedersen, Martin C. et al, “Brand new world… What is a store today anyway?” Metropolis, November 2011, p.50-55

Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA)

Goodman, Amanda L., Digital media labs in libraries, ALA TechSource, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF)

"Médiathèques / Multi-media libraries," Techniques & Architecture, June/July 2001 (Theme issue)

“Cinéma en plein à Téhéran,” Architecture d'aujourd'hui, December 1960-January 1961

Mov Mob (Temporary drive-ins)

Screen City Biennial, Stavanger, Norway, “dedicated to the moving image presented in public spaces”.

Longstanding open-air movie screenings include Cinéma en plein air (Parc La Villette, Paris), Cinespia (Hollywood), Film4 Summer Screen at Somerset House (London), and  Bryant Park Movie Nights (New York). The Cinerent company produces the Alltours Kino, Düsseldorf (1993), St. George Open Air Cinema, Sydney (since 1998), and Shell OpenAir (formerly Vivo OpenAir), Rio de Janeiro (2002).

Arenson, Adam, Banking on beauty: Millard Sheets and midcentury commercial architecture in California, University of Texas Press, N6537.S524 A88 2018

Global Mural Association

LaTorre, Guisela, Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/o Indigenist Murals of California, University of Texas Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Teicholz, Tom, Wilshire Boulevard Temple and the Warner murals, Oro Editions, NA4690 .T453 2013

“Mural,” “Fresco,” “Mosaic,” “Secco,” Oxford Art Online

Bruns, James H., Great American Post Offices, NA4451.B78 1997

Craig, Lois A., The Federal Presence: architecture, politics and symbols in U.S. government building, MIT Press, NA4205.C7

Customized Logistics & Delivery Association

Esin, Simge & Oguzhan Ozcan, “From post office to public communication points,” Journal of architectural & planning research, Summer 2010, p.163-180

Express Carriers Association

“Postage stamp,” Oxford Art Online

Short, C.W. & R. Stanley Brown, "Post Offices," in Public Buildings: architecture in the Public Works Administration, Da Capo Press, NA4208.A4 1939 (pages 579-97)

Universal Postal Union (Worldwide links)

Bowlby, Rachel, “Readable city,” PMLA, January 2007, p.306-309 (via JSTOR)

Carter, Karen L., “The Spectatorship of the “Affiche Illustrée and the modern city of Paris, 1880-1900,” Journal of Design History, 2012, Vol.25, #1, p.11-31 (via JSTOR)

Geyh, Paula E., “From cities of things to cities of signs: urban spaces and urban subjects in Sister Carrie and Manhattan Transfer,” Twentieth Century Literature, Winter 2006, p.413-442 (via JSTOR)

Guffey, Elizabeth E., Posters: a global history, Reaktion Books, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

Hewitt, John, “Posters of distinction: art, advertising and the London, Midland, and Scottish Railways,” Design Issues, Spring 2000, p.16-35

Lerner, Jillian Taylor, “The French profiled by themselves: social typologies, advertising posters, and the illustration of consumer lifestyles,” Grey Room, #27, Spring 2007, p.6-35

“Poster,” “Printed ephemera,” Oxford Art Online

Evans, Barrie, “News storeys [Newsroom, London],” Architect’s Journal, September 26, 2002, p.36, 38

“Printing,” Oxford Art Online

Solomonson, Katherine, Chicago Tribune Tower competition, Cambridge University Press, NA6233.C4 C466 2001

Stamm, Michael, “Newspapers, radio, and the business of media in the United States,” OAH Magazine of History, January 2010, p.25-28 (via JSTOR)

“The New York Times building, New York, USA, 2000-2007,” AV Monographs, 2017, #197-198, p.24-33

Tigerman, Stanley, Chicago Tribune Tower competition, Rizzoli, NA2340 .C47 1981 (see also: tower competition entries, NA2340.C47 vols.1 & 2)

"What's New in Newspaper Plants," Architectural Forum, May 1956, p.130-135

Arceneaux, Noah, “Wanamaker’s Department Store and the origins of electronic media, 1910-1922,” Technology and Culture, October 2010, p.809-828 (via JSTOR)

“Built-in radios,” Pencil points, October 1939, p.665-670

Douglas, Susan J., Listening in: radio and the American imagination, University of Minnesota Press, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

Radio Days (Archive of historic broadcasts in RealAudio)

“Singapore MediaCorp: Buona Vista One-North, Singapore 2011-,” Architecture & Urbanism, July 2012, p.96-101

Stamm, Michael, “Newspapers, radio, and the business of media in the United States,” OAH Magazine of History, January 2010, p.25-28 (via JSTOR)

Yusaf, Shundana, Broadcasting buildings: architecture on the wireless, 1927-1945, The MIT Press, NA2543.M37 Y87 2014

… For the design of radios, see the fan sites Joe's Radio Page, Radiola Guy, and Transistor Radio Culture & Design

Abbondandolo, Ilaria, “‘A calligraphy I have invented many times before.’” AA Files, 2013, #66, p.108-113

Burke, Chris, “Peter Behrens and the German Letter: Type Design and Architectural Lettering,” Journal of design history, Vol.5, #1, 1992, p.19-37

Cannell, Michael, “Lives in letters: the writing on the wall has meaning beyond its words,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, May 2014, p.154-159

Capdevila-Werning, Remei, “Can buildings quote?” Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism, Winter 2011, p.115-124 (via academia.edu)

Crowe, Michael F., “Neon signs: their origin, use, and maintenance,” APT Bulletin, Vol.23, #2, 1991, p.30-37

“Epigraphy and inscriptions in medieval art,” Oxford Art Online

Gibson, David, Wayfinding handbook: information design for public places, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Hofmann, Armin, “Lettering and architecture,” JAE, September 1975, p.18-19

International Conference of Building Officials, Uniform Sign Code

Katz, Joel, Designing information: human factors and common sense in information design, John Wiley & Sons, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Meuser, Philipp & Daniela Pogade (editors), Wayfinding and signage, DOM Publishers, NC1002.S54 W39 2013

Smitshuijzen, Edo, Signage design manual, Lars Müller, NK8643.45 .S65 2007

Wilkinson, Tom, "The writing on the wall," The Architectural Review, December 2018 / January 2019, p.16-21

Dobkin, Josephine C., “The Laying of the Atlantic Cable: Paintings, Watercolors, and Commemorative Objects,” Metropolitan Museum Journal, 2006, Vol.41, p.155-170

Niebisch, Arndt, “The Telegraphic Village Communication and Empire in Kleist and Verne,” South Atlantic Review, Spring 2009, p.93-110

Standage, Tom, The Victorian Internet, Walker and Co., HD7631.S677 1998

“Western Union Telegraph Building,” The Aldine, January 1875, p.258

Crystal, David, Txtng: The Gr8 Db8, Oxford University Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Flynn, Katherine, “Good call,” Preservation, Spring 2016, p.10 (Telephone booth preservation)

Holliday, Kathryn E., “Verizon Building (Barclay-Vesey Building for the New York Telephone Company),” Journal of Architectural Education, 2013, Vol.67, #1, p.156-158

Menke, Richard, “The medium is the media: fictions of the telephone in the 1890s,” Victorian Studies, Winter 2013, p.212-221

Mills, Mara, “Deafening: noise and the engineering of communication in the telephone system,” Grey Room, Spring 2011, #43, p.118-143

Ito, Mizuko, et al, Personal, portable, pedestrian: mobile phones in Japanese life, MIT Press, 2006 (via Ebook Central)

Schäffner, Wolfgang, “The telephonic revolution of the digital image,” Grey Room, Spring 2011, #43, p.145-155 (via Jstor)

Tumminelli, Paolo A., "Handheld Cell Telephones," Domus, September 1994, p.82-91

"CBS, Television City, Los Angeles," Arts & Architecture, January 1953, p.20-23 (On the first purpose-built TV studio)

"Construction Study: Purpose-Built Television Station," Architects' Journal, April 20, 1994, p.29-39

Doordan, Dennis P., “Design at CBS,” Design issues, Spring 1990, p.4-17

Early Television Foundation & Museum

Sewell, Philip W., Television in the age of radio, Rutgers University Press, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

Morteo, Enrico, "Una macchina domestica: il televisione," Domus, April 1990, p.68-77, xxiv (Italian and English)

Television history (Fan site)

Williams, Raymond, Television: technology and cultural form, Routledge, HE8700.4 .W54 2003

Dead Media Project  (Encyclopedic resource coordinated by novelist Bruce Sterling)

“Pneumatic networks,” part of the Museum of Retro Technology; see also Hayhurst, The Pneumatic Post of Paris, 1974

“Semaphore line” (Wikipedia on the optical telegraph)

Colomina, Beatriz et al, Cold war hothouses: inventing postwar culture, from cockpit to playboy, Princeton Architectural Press, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

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

Colomina, Beatriz, “The media house,” Assemblage, #27, Spring 1995, p.55-66

Home Theater (“The Authority in Entertainment Intelligence”)

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

Kraut, Robert et al, Computers, phones, and the Internet: domesticating information technology, Oxford University Press, HM851 .C665 2006

McLuhan, Marshall, Understanding Media: the extension of man, Gingko Press, P90 .M26 2003 (Chapter 13, “Housing”)

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

Secrets of Home Theater & High Fidelity (Nerd-oriented)

Bell, Emily, "Who owns the news consumer: social media platforms or publishers?" Colombia Journalism Review, June 21, 2016

“Communication & intention,” “Information theory,” “Language, philosophy of,” “Meaning & communication,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

“Communication theory,” Oxford Art Online

Debord, Guy-Ernest, The Society of the spectacle, 1967 (via nothingness.org)

Gleick, James, The information: a history, a theory, a flood, Pantheon Books, Z665 .G547 2011

Hendricks John Allen et al, Twenty-First-Century Media Industry, Lexington Books, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

"Information," “Pragmatics,” “Speech acts,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

International Institute of Communications

"Internet & technology," and "News habits & media," Pew Research Center 

Nielsen media research

Public Relations Society of America

Ryan, A History of the Internet and the Digital Future, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Shannon, C. E. “A Mathematical theory of communication,” Bell System Technical Journal,v. 27, #3, 1948 (Established information theory as a discipline)

Varnelis, Kazys et al, Networked publics, MIT Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

White, Michele, The body and the screen: theories of internet spectatorship, MIT Press, 2006 (via Ebook Central)

Winn, J. Emmett et al, Transmitting the Past: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Broadcasting, University of Alabama Press, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

Coleman, B. & Clay Shirky, Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation, MIT Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Doesinger, Stephan, Space between people, Prestel, NA2543.T43 S63 2008

Flachbart, Georg & Peter Weibel (editors), Disappearing architecture: from real to virtual to quantum, Birkhäuser, NA2728 .D57 2005

Nunes, Mark, Cyberspaces of everyday life, University of Minnesota Press, 2006 (via Ebook Central)

Silver, David et al, Critical cyberculture studies, New York University Press, 2006 (via Ebook Central)

Thomas, Maureen & Francois Penz (editors), Architectures of Illusion: From motion pictures to navigable interactive environments, Intellect, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Coyne, Richard, Tuning of Place: sociable spaces and pervasive digital media, MIT Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Ling, Richard Seyler, New tech, new ties: how mobile communication is reshaping social cohesion, MIT Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Ling, Richard Seyler, Taken for grantedness: the embedding of mobile communications into society, MIT Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Love, Steve, Understanding Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, Elsevier, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

Pedersen, Isabel & Andrew Iliadis, Embodied computing : wearables, implantables, embeddables, ingestibles, MIT Press, QA76.592 .E43 2020

De Souza e Silva, Adriana & Jordan Frith, “Location-based mobile games,” in Playful identities: the ludification of digital media cultures, Valerie Frissen et al (editors), Amsterdam University Press, p.169-180 (via JSTOR)

Friers, Lars & Lars Meier, Encountering Urban Places: visual and material performances in the city, Ashgate, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Gibson, David, Wayfinding Handbook: information design for public places, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

International Global Navigation Satellite Systems

Kling, Beate, Signage: spatial orientation, Edition Detail, NC1002.S54 K55x 2013

Koerten, Hank, Taming Technology: the narrative anchor reconciling time, territory and technology in geoinformation infrastructures, IOS Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Meuser, Philipp & Daniela Pogade (editors), Wayfinding and signage, Dom publishers, NC1002.S54 W39 2013

Plumert, Jodie M. & John Spencer, Emerging Spatial Mind, Oxford University Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Rida, Amin et al, RFID-Enabled Sensor Design and Applications, Artech House, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Russell, Ben, Headmap Manifesto, 1999 (“An early proposal for locative media”)

Verhoeff, Nanna, Mobile screens: the visual regime of navigation, Amsterdam University Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Anderson, Sam, "In Defense of Distraction,” New York magazine, May 17, 2009

“Attention,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Freedman, Robert, Noise Wars: compulsory media and our loss of autonomy, Algora Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Harper, Richard H. R., Texture: human expression in the age of communications overload, MIT Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Albrechtslund, Anders, “Participatory Surveillance in the Intelligent Building,” Design issues, Summer 2011, p.35-46 (via Jstor)

Anumba, Chimay J. & Xiangyu Wang (editors), Mobile and pervasive computing in construction, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Crisinel, Michel et al (editors), Glass & interactive building envelopes, IOS Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Fox, Michael (editor), Interactive architecture: adaptive world, Princeton Architectural Press, NA2543.T43 I59 2015

Guallart, Vincent, et al, Media house project: the house is the computer, the structure is the network, TH6012.M43 2004

McCullough, Malcolm, Digital ground: architecture, pervasive computing, and environmental knowing, MIT Press, QA76.9.A73 M45 2004