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Architectures of North America: industrialization to the modern era: General resources

Recommended resources on the architectures of North America, from the period of industrialization to the modern and post-modern eras, providing location info for print resources and links for digital resources.

Recommended books

Architecture guides

Architecture guides are often the only resource for factual information about some buildings or regions. There are architecture guides in print for many U.S. states, which are cataloged in the NA730 section. Many U.S. cities, large and small, also have their own guides (NA735 section).

Recommended journals

This short list of journals provides a sampler of architectural scholarship, and representations of architecture and the built environment, during the Progressive, Modern, Postmodern, and contemporary eras. 

Architectural Forum magazine (bound volumes from 1950-1973 are in the stacks; digital issues from 1892-1916 as The Brickbuilder, and 1917-1974 as Architectural Forum, available via US Modernist magazine archive)

Architectural Record magazine (bound volumes from 1950 are in the stacks; digital issues from 1891 available on the journal’s website)

Architecture magazine (bound volumes from 1962 are in the stacks; digital issues from 1976-1993 available via archINFORM)

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (bound volumes from 1956 are in the stacks; digital issues from 1945, with a 3-year delay, via JStor)

Progressive Architecture magazine (bound volumes from 1950-1995 are in the stacks; digital issues from 1920-1944, as Pencil Points, and 1945-1995 as Progressive Architecture, available via US Modernist magazine archive)

Recommended image resources

  • Search JStor for specific buildings, architects, or architectural styles. Narrow your search results by selecting “Geography, North America” and “Architecture and City Planning.”

Other resources

The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era: a digital primary source guide,” by Serena Covkin (via U. S. History Scene)

HABS/HAER/HALS, The Historic American buildings survey, Historic American engineering record, and Historic American landscapes survey, administered by the National Park Service.

Los Angeles Conservancy, “preserving the historic places that make L.A. County unique.”

National Trust for Historic Preservation

Preservation Directory, provides links to preservation organizations in the United States and Canada.

The Skyscraper Museum, New York City. Research collections include a video archive and links to online projects.   

Society for American City and Regional Planning History

Recommended for all architectural research

Industrialization & Reform 1860-1920

Condit, Carl W., The Chicago school of architecture: a history of commercial and public building in the Chicago area, 1875-1925, University of Chicago Press, NA735.C4 C6 1964

Harris, Neil, “The Gilded Age reconsidered once again,” Archives of American Art Journal, Vol.23, #4, 1983, p.8-18 (PDF via JStor)

The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Issues from 2002, with a 5-year delay, via JStor)

Longstreth, Richard W., “Academic eclecticism in American architecture,” Winterthur Portfolio, Spring 1982, p.55-82 (PDF via JStor)

Mumford, Lewis, The brown decades; a study of the arts in America, 1865-1895, Dover Publications, N6510.M8 1955

Mumford, Lewis, The roots of contemporary American architecture, Dover Publications, NA710.M8 1972

Statman, Alexander, A global enlightenment: Western progress and Chinese science, B802 .S735 2023

Anderson, Marvin J., “The architectural education of nineteenth-century American engineers: Dennis Hart Mahan at West Point,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 2008, p.222-247 (via JStor)

Cordulack, Shelley Wood, “A Franco-American battle of beams: electricity and the selling of modernity,” Journal of Design History, Vol.18, #2, 2005, p.147-166 (PDF via JStor)

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)

Kern, Stephen, The culture of time and space, 1880-1918, Harvard University Press, CB478.K46 2003

Martin, Brenda & Penny Sparke (editors), Women’s places: architecture and design 1860-1960, Routledge, NA1997 .W67 2003 (Also available via Ebook Central)

McNeill, Karen, “’Women who build’: Julia Morgan & women’s institutions,” California History, Vol.89, #3, 2012, p.41-74 (PDF via JStor)

Reiff, Daniel D., “Viollet-le-Duc and American 19th century architecture,” Journal of Architectural Education, Vol.42, #1, 1988, p.32-47 (PDF via JStor)

Sapers, Carl M. & Penny Pittman Merliss, “The liability of architects and engineers in nineteenth-century America,”Journal of Architectural Education, Vol.41, #2,1988, p.39-45 (PDF via JStor)

Vivian, Daniel J., “A practical architect: Frank P. Milburn and the transformation of architectural practice in the New South, 1890-1925,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.40, #1, 2005, p.17-46 (PDF via JStor)

Wilson, Kristina, Mid-century modernism and the American body : race, gender, and the politics of power in design, Princeton University Press, NK1404 .W557 2021

Wilson, Richard Guy, “Architecture and the reinterpretation of the past in the American Renaissance,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.18, #1, 1983, p.69-87 (PDF via JStor)

Crawford, Alan, "Arts and Crafts Movement," Oxford Art Online

Freudenheim, Leslie Mandelson, Building with nature: inspiration for the arts & crafts home, Gibbs Smith, NA7235.C22 S3537 2005

Gebhard, David, "Greene & GreeneOxford Art Online

Kaplan, Wendy, The Arts and crafts movement in Europe and America: design for the modern world 1880-1920, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Thames & Hudson, NK1140 K37 2004

Makinson, Randell L., Greene & Greene, Gibbs M. Smith, NA737.G73 M33 v.1

Meister, Maureen, Arts and crafts architecture: history and heritage in New England, University Press of New England, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

Carlhian, Jean Paul, “The Ecole des Beaux-Arts: modes and manners,” Journal of Architectural Education, November 1979, p.7-17 (PDF via JStor)

Cret, Paul P., “The Ecole des Beaux-Arts and architectural education,” The Journal of the American Society of Architectural Historians, Vol.1, #2, 1941 (PDF via JStor)

Drexler, Arthur (editor), The Architecture of the Ecole des beaux-arts, Museum of Modern Art, NA1047.5.E34 A69

Gournay, Isabelle, "Beaux-Arts style," Oxford Art Online

Gournay, Isabelle & Marie-Laure Crosnier Leconte, “American architecture students in Belle Epoque Paris: scholastic strategies and achievements at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts,” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, April 2013, p.154-198 (PDF via JStor)

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)

Wilson, Wilson, Richard Guy, "McKim, Mead & White," Oxford Art Online

Wilson, Richard Guy & Leland Roth, McKim, Mead & White: selected works, 1879-1915, Princeton Architectural Press, NA737.M4 A4 2018

Van Zanten, David, “The architecture of the Beaux-Arts,” Journal of Architectural Education, November 1975 (PDF via JStor)

Andrzejewski, Anna Vemer, "The gazes of hierarchy at religious camp meetings, 1850-1925." Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol.8, 2000, p.138-157 (PDF via JStor)

Briesch, Kenneth A., Henry Hobson Richardson and the small public library in America: a study in typology, MIT Press, Z679.2.U54 B74 1997

Cantor, Jay, “Temples of the Arts: Museum Architecture in Nineteenth-Century America,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, April 1970, p.331-354 (PDF via JStor)

Carroll, Katherine L., “Creating the modern physician: the architecture of American medical schools in the era of medical education reformJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2016, p.48-73 (PDF via JStor)

Curran, Kathleen, The invention of the American art museum: from craft to Kulturqeschichte, 1870-1930, Getty Research Institute, N510 .C87 2016

Erkkila, Catherine Boland, “American railways and the cultural landscape of immigration,” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Vol.22, #1, 2015, p.36-62 (PDF via JStor)

Hitchcock, Henry R., "The rise of commercial architecture in England and America," in Architecture: nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Penguin Books, NA642.H56 1977

Renner, Andrea, “A nation that bathes together: New York City’s Progressive Era public baths,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 2008, p.504-531 (PDF via JStor)

Simpson, Pamela H., "Cereal architecture: late-nineteenth-century grain palaces and crop art." Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol.10, 2005, p.269-282 (PDF via JStor)

Zukowsky, John, “Monumental American Obelisks: Centennial Vistas,” The Art Bulletin, December 1976, p.574-581 (PDF via JStor)

"Sweatshops in America," Smithsonian Museum (Archived webpage via wayback.archi-it.org)

Brown, Roberi F., “The aesthetic transformation of an industrial community,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.12, 1977, p.35-64 (PDF via JStor)

Bürklin, Thorsten & Jürgen Reichardt (editors), Albert Kahn’s industrial architecture: form follows performance, Birkhäuser, NA737.K28 A4 2019

Chance, Helena, The factory in a garden: a history of corporate landscapes from the industrial to the digital age, Manchester University Press, SB451.36.G7 C48 2017

Crawford, Margaret, Building the workingman's paradise, Verso, HT123.C688 1995

Hoagland, Alison K., Mine towns: buildings for workers in Michigan’s Cooper Country, University of Minnesota Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Klein, Maury, Prisoners of progress: American industrial cities 1850-1920, Macmillan, HT123.K55

Meister, Chris, “Albert Kahn’s partners in industrial architecture,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2013, p.78-95 (PDF via JStor)

Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, “Architecture for the Boston & Albany Railroad: 1881-1894,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 1988, p.109-131 (PDF via JStor)

Roth, Leland M., “Three industrial towns by McKim, Mead & White,”Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1979, p.317-347 (PDF via JStor)

Taylor, Frederick Winslow, Principles of Scientific Management, Dover Publications, TT55,9.T377 1998 (Classic efficiency text of 1911)

Wermiel, Sara E., “Heavy timber framing in late-nineteenth-century commercial and industrial buildings,” APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology, Vol.35, #1, 2004, p.55-60 (PDF via JStor)

Wunsch, Aaron V., Palazzos of power: central stations of the Philadelphia Electric Company, 1900-1930, Princeton Architectural Press, NA6589.E44 W86 2016

Baar, Kenneth, "The national movement to halt the spread of multifamily housing 1890-1926," JAPA, Winter 1992, p.39-48

Cromley, Elizabeth Collins, “Frank Lloyd Wright in the kitchen,” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Vol.19, #1, 2012, p.18-42 (via JStor)

Garvin, James L., “Mail-order house plans and American Victorian architecture,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.16, #4, 1981, p.309-334 (PDF via JStor)

Gowans, Alan, The comfortable house: North American suburban architecture 1890-1930, MIT Press, NA7571.G68 1989

Heath, Kingston Wm., “Housing the worker: the anatomy of the New Bedford, Massachusetts, three-decker,” Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol.10, 2005, p.47-59 (PDF via JStor)

Hubka, Thomas C. & Judith T. Kenny, “Examining the American dream: housing standards and the emergence of a national housing culture, 1900-1930,” Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol.13, #1, 2006, p.49-69 (PDF via JStor)

Hubka, Thomas C. & Judith T. Kenny, “The workers’ cottage in Milwaukee’s Polish community: housing and the process of Americanization, 1870-1920,” Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol.8, 2000, p.33-52 (PDF via JStor)

Lawrence, Jeanne Catherine, “Chicago’s Eleanor Clubs: housing working women in the early twentieth century,” Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol.8, 2000, p.219-247 (PDF via JStor)

Lockwood, Charles, et al, Bricks & brownstone: the New York row house, Rizzoli, NA7238.N6 L66 2019

Mooney, Barbara Burlison, “The comfortable tasty framed cottage: an African American architectural iconography,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2002, p.48-67 (PDF via JStor)

Bletter, Rosemarie Haag, "The invention of the skyscraper: notes on its diverse histories," Assemblage, #2, February 1987, p.110-117 (PDF via JStor)

Condit, Carl W. & Dietrich Neumann, "Skyscraper," Oxford Art Online.

Landau, Sarah Bradford & Carl W. Condit, The rise of the New York skyscraper 1865-1913, Yale University Press, NA6232.L361 1996

Larson, Gerald R. & Roula Mouroudellis Geraniotis, “Toward a better understanding of the evolution of the iron skeleton frame in Chicago,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1987, p.39-48 (PDF via JStor)

Leslie, Thomas, “’Built mostly of itself’: the Chicago brick industry and the masonry skyscraper in the late 19th century,” Construction History, Vol.25, 2010, p.69-84 (PDF via JStor)

Peterson, Charles E., “Ante-Bellum Skyscraper,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, October 1950, p.25, 27-28 (PDF via JStor)

Shepherd, Roger (editor), Skyscraper: the search for an American style 1891-1941, McGraw-Hill, NA6232 .S52 2003

Solomonson, Katherine, The Chicago Tribune Tower competition: skyscraper design and cultural change in the 1920s, Cambridge University Press, NA6233.C4C466 2001

Sullivan, Louis, "The tall office building artistically considered," (1896) in Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings, Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc., NA2560.S82

Van Zanten, David. "Burnham, Daniel H," Oxford Art Online

Brooks, H. Allen, “Chicago School: metamorphosis of a term,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, May 1966, p.115-118 (PDF via JStor)

Condit, Carl W., The Chicago school of architecture, University of Chicago Press, NA735.C4 C6 1964

Leslie, Thomas, “Glass and light: the influence of interior illumination on the Chicago School,” Journal of Architectural Education, September 2004, p.13-24 (PDF via JStor)

Sullivan, Louis, "The tall office building artistically considered," (1896) in Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings, Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc., NA2560.S82

Van Zanten, David, "Chicago school," Oxford Art Online

Van Zanten, David, "Sullivan, Louis," Oxford Art Online

Weingarden, Lauren S., “The colors of nature: Louis Sullivan's architectural polychromy and nineteenth-century color theory,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.20, #4, 1985, p.243-260 (PDF via JStor)

Wit, Wim de, Louis Sullivan: the function of ornament, Chicago Historical Society; WW Norton & Company, NA737.S9 A4 1986

Domosh, Mona, Invented cities: the creation of landscape in nineteenth-century New York & Boston, Yale University Press, HT168.N5 D66 1996 

Fenske, Gail, "City Beautiful Movement," Oxford Art Online

Free Library of Philadelphia, Old Philadelphia in early photographs 1839-1914, Dover Publications, F158.37 .P55 1976

Hoagland, Alison K., “The invariable model: standardization and military architecture in Wyoming, 1860-1900,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 1998, p.298-315 (PDF via JStor)

Hoagland, Alison K., “Village constructions: U. S. Army forts on the Plains, 1848-1890,” Winterthur Portfolio, Winter 1999, p.215-237 (PDF via JStor)

Johnson, Amy E., “Crooked and narrow streets: photography and urban visual identities in early twentieth-century Boston,”  Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.47, #1, 2013, p.35-64 (PDF via JStor)

Klein, Maury & Harvey A. Kantor, Prisoners of progress: American industrial cities, 1850-1920, Macmillan, HT123 .K55

Krulikowski, Anne E., “’A workingman’s paradise’: the evolution of an unplanned suburban landscape,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.42, #4, 2008, p.243-285 (PDF via JStor)

Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna, “Patriotism and protest: Union Square as public space, 1832-1932,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 2009, p.540-559 (PDF via JStor)

Rawson, Michael, Eden on the Charles: the making of Boston, Boston University Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Stern, Robert A. M., New York 1880: architecture and urbanism in the gilded age, Monacelli Press, NA735.N5 S727 1999

Tunnard, Christopher, “A city called beautiful,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March–May 1950, p.31-36 (PDF via JStor)

Wolf, Peter,” City structuring and social sense in 19th and 20th century urbanism,” Perspecta, Vol.13/14, 1971, p.220-233 (PDF via JStor)

Carroll, Abigail, “Of kettles and cranes: Colonial Revival kitchens and he performance of national identity,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.43, #4, 2009, p.335-364 (PDF via JStor)

Dinesen, Betzy, "Colonial Revival," Oxford Art Online

May, Bridget A,, “Progressivism and the Colonial Revival: the modern colonial house, 1900-1920,” Wnterthur Portfolio, Vol.26, #2/3, 1991, p.107-122 (PDF via JStor)

Maynard, W. Barksdale, “Best, lowliest style! the early-nineteenth-century rediscovery of American Colonial architecture,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 2000, p.338-357 (PFD via JStor)

Addis, William, “The harmony of theory and practice: 1800-1860” in Building: 3000 years of design engineering and construction, Phaidon Press, TH15 .A33 2007

Boothby, Thomas E., Engineering iron and stone: understanding structural analysis and design methods of the late 19th century, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

Brucemann, Robert & Donald Prowler, “19th century mechanical system designs,” Journal of Architectural Education, February 1977, p.11-15 (PDF via JStor)

Darnall, Margaretta Jean, “Innovations in American prefabricated housing: 1860-1890,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1972, p.51-55 (PDF via JStor)  

Friedman, Donald, “Hidden intricacies: the development of modern building skeletons,” APT Bulletin, Vol.43, #4, 2012, p.13-21 (PDF via JStor)

Gundersen, Elyse Gundersen, “The changing role of the architect in the United States construction industry, 1870-1913,” Construction History, Vol.28, #1, 2013, p.121-140 (PDF via JStor)

Hughes, Thomas Parke, American genesis: a century of invention and technological enthusiasm, 1870-1970, University of Chicago Press, T21.H82 2004

Isenstadt, Sandy, “Architecture in a new light: architects and illuminating engineers in the early 20th century United States,” in Electric worlds / Mondes électriques: creations, circulations, tensions, transitions (19th-21st c.), edited by Beltran Alain, et al., Peter Lang AG, 2016, p.81-102 (PDF via JStor)

Leslie, Thomas, “’Built mostly of itself’: the Chicago brick industry and the masonry skyscraper in the late 19th century,” Construction History, Vol.25, 2010, p.69-84 (PDF via JStor)

Marx, Leo, The machine in the garden: technology and the pastoral ideal in America, Oxford University Press, E169.1.M373 2000

McBride, Elyse Gundersen, “The changing role of the architect in the United States construction industry, 1870-1913,” Construction History, Vol.28, #1, 2013, p.121-140 (PDF via JStor)

Nye, David E., American illuminations: urban lighting, 1800-1920, MIT Press, TD195.L52 N94 2018

Ortega, Richard I., “Masonry cladding of iron-and-steel-frame buildings, 1880-1940: a destructive relationship,” APT Bulletin, Vol.43, #4, 2012, p.23-31 (PDF via JStor)

Peterson, Fred W., "Anglo-American wooden frame farmhouses in the Midwest, 1830-1900: origins of balloon frame construction," Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol.8, 2000, p.3-16 (PDF via JStor)

Wermiel, Sara E., The fireproof building: technology and public safety in the nineteenth-century American city, Johns Hopkins University Press, TH1065 .W47 2000

Clark, Kenneth, The Gothic revival, Penguin, NA610 .C5 1962

Liscombe, Rhodri Windsor, “Nationalism or cultural imperialism? The Château Style in Canada,” Architectural History, Vol.36, 1993, p.127-144 (PDF via JStor)

Perusse, Lyle F., “The Gothic Revival in California, 1850-1890,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, October 1955, p.15-22 (PDF via JStor)

Ziolkowski, Jan M., “Point taken: Gothic Modernism and the modern Middle Ages,” in The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of modernity, Open Book Publishers, 2018, p.239-300 (PDF via JStor)

Clark, Frank, “Nineteenth-Century Public Parks from 1830,” Garden History, Vol.1, #3, 1973, p.31-41 (PDF via JStor)

Kowsky, Francis R., The best planned city in the world: Olmstead, Vaux, and the Buffalo park system, University of Massachusetts Press, 2013 (via Ebook Central) (DVD version on the Media shelf, SB472.45 .S78 2014)

McClelland, Linda Flint, Building the National Parks: historic landscape design and construction, Johns Hopkins University Press, SB482.A4 M3 1998

Rybczynski, Witold, A clearing in the distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century, Scribner, SB470.O5 R93 1999

Warsh, Marie, “Cultivating citizens: the Children’s School Farm in New York City, 1902-1931,” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Vol.18, #1, 2011, p.64-89 (PDF via JStor) (On a farm built within a city park)

Brooks, H. Allen, “The early work of the Prairie architects,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians,  March 1960, p.2-10 (PDF via JStor)

Brooks, H. Allen, “Frank Lloyd Wright and the Wasmuth Drawings,” The Art Bulletin, June 1966, p.193-202 (PDF via JStor)

Brooks, H. Allen, The Prairie school, Norton, NA722.B7

Hess, Alan, Frank Lloyd Wright: prairie houses, Rizzoli, NA737.W7 H469 2006

Kaufmann, Edgar, “Frank Lloyd Wright: plasticity, continuity, and ornament,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1978, p.34-39 (PDF via JStor)

Levine, Neil, “Landscape into architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House and the romance of Southern California,” AA Files, January 1983, p.22-41 (PDF via JStor)

The Prairie School: design vision for the Midwest,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, Vol.21, #2, 1995 (Theme issue)

Siry, Joseph, “Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple and architecture for liberal religion in Chicago, 1885-1909,” The Art Bulletin, June 1991, p.257-282 (PDF via JStor)

Siry, Joseph, et al, "Wright family," Oxford Art Online

Storrer, William Allin, The architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: a complete catalog, The University of Chicago Press, NA737.W7 S83 2017

Turner, Paul Venable, “Frank Lloyd Wright and the Young Le Corbusier,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1983, p.350-359 (PDF via JStor)

Wright, Frank Lloyd, Studies and executed buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, Rizzoli, NA737.W7 A4 1986 (The 1910 Wasmuth Portfolio)

Yang, Mimi, “The Prairie Style: rethinking the American identity,” South Atlantic Review, Vol.81, #1, 2016, p.81-93 (PDF via JStor)

Floyd, Margaret Henderson, "Queen Anne Revival," Oxford Art Online

Muthesius, Stefan, "Eclecticism," Oxford Art Online

Thenhaus, Clark, Unresolved legibility in residential types, Applied Research and Design Publishing, NA7205 .T44 2019 (See chapter: Odd façades & social transformation in the Queen Anne house)

Booker, Margaret Moore, "Romanesque revival in America," Oxford Art Online

Briesch, Kenneth A., Henry Hobson Richardson and the small public library in America: a study in typology, MIT Press, Z679.2.U54 B74 1997

Grossman, Elizabeth Greenwell, “H. H. Richardson: lessons from Paris,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 2008, p.388-411 (PDF via JStor)

Meeks, Carroll L. V., “Romanesque before Richardson in the United States,” The Art Bulletin, March 1953, 17-33 (PDF via JStor)

O'Gorman, James F., H.H. Richardson: architectural forms for an American society, University of Chicago Press, NA737.R5 O36 1987

Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, "Richardson, H. H.Oxford Art Online

Tselos, Dimitri, “Richardson's influence on European architecture,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, May 1970, p.156-162 (PDF via JStor)

Landau, Sarah Bradford, “Richard Morris Hunt, the Continental Picturesque, and the ‘Stick Style’,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, October 1983, p.272-289 (PDF via JStor)

Scully, Vincent J., “Romantic rationalism and the expression of structure in wood: Downing, Wheeler, Gardner, and the Stick Style, 1840-1876,” The Art Bulletin, June 1953, p.121-142 (PDF via JStor)

Scully, Vincent, Jr., The shingle style and the stick style: architectural theory and design from Richardson to the origins of Wright, Yale University Press, NA7207 .S39

Whiffen, Marcus, "Shingle style," Oxford Art Online

The modern era (20th century)

GENERAL SURVEYS & HISTORIES

Bletter, Rosemarie Haaq, et al., US design 1975-2000, Prestel; Denver Art Museum, NK1404.A1 U7 2002

Davis, Charles L., Building character: the racial politics of modern architectural style, University of Pittsburgh Press, NA2543.S6 D385 2019

Filler, Martin, Makers of modern architecture, New York Review Books, NA680 .F46 2007 Vols.1-3

Harris, Dianne Suzette, Little white houses: how the postwar home constructed race in America, University of Minnesota Press, NA2543.R37 H37 2013

Hayden, Dolores, Building suburbia: green fields and urban growth, 1820-2000, Pantheon Books, HT352.U6 H39 2003

Hess, Alan, Organic architecture: the other modernism, Gibbs Smith, NA7208 .H468 2006

Hines, Thomas S., Architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art: the Arthur Drexler years, 1951-1986, Getty Research Institute, N620.M9 H56 2019

Lam, Elsa & Graham Livesey (editors), Canadian modern architecture: 1967 to present, Princeton University Press, NA745 .C27 2019 

Liscombe, Rhodri Windsor, Canada: modern architecture in history, Reaktion Books, NA740 .L57 2016

Warner, Sam Bass, American urban form, MIT Press, HT123 .W228 2012

 

AESTHETICS, THEORY & PRACTICE

Lieber, Jeffrey, Flintstone modernism, or, The crisis in postwar American culture, MIT Press, NA2543.S6 L54 2018

Mallgrave, Harry Francis, An introduction to architectural theory: 1968 to the present, Wiley-Blackwell, NA2500 .M277 2011

Ockman, Joan, Architecture Culture, 1943-1968: a documentary anthology, Columbia Books of Architecture; Rizzoli, NA680.A57 1993

Pae, Hyaeong-min, The portfolio and the diagram: architecture, discourse, and modernity in America, MIT, NA2584 .P35 2006

Sachs, Avigail, Environmental design: architecture, politics, and science in postwar America, University of Virginia Press, NA2543.S6 S225 2018

Sachs, Avigail, “The postwar legacy of architectural research,” Journal of Architectural Education, February 2009, p.53-64 (PDF via JStor)

Shephard, Roger, Skyscraper: the search for an American style, 1891-1941, McGraw-Hill, NA6232 .S52 2003

Twemlow, Alice, Sifting the trash: a history of design criticism, MIT Press, TS171.4 .T89 2017

 

BUILDING TYPES

Albrect, Donald, On the job: design and the American office, Princeton Architectural Press, NA6232 .A3313 203

The American hotel,” The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Vol.25, 2005 (Theme issue via JStor)

Hardwick, M. Jeffrey, Mall maker: Victor Gruen, architect of an American dream, University of Pennsylvania Press, NA737.G78 H37 2004

Ogata, Amy F., “Building for learning in postwar American elementary schools,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 2008, p.562-591 (PDF via JStor)

Price, Jay M., Temples for a modern god: religious architecture in postwar America, Oxford University Press, NA5212 .P73 2013

Smiley, David J., Pedestrian modern: shopping and American architecture, 1925-1956, University of Minnesota Press, NA6212 .S65 2013

Tilden, Scott J. (editor), Architecture for art: American art museums, 1938-2008, Harry N. Abrams Publishers, NA6696.U6 A73 2004

 

CONSTRUCTION & TECHNOLOGY

Abalos, Iñaki, Tower and office: from modernist theory to contemporary practice, MIT Press, NA6232 .A3313 2003

Boer, Wulf, “Synthetic air,” Future Anterior, Vol.13, #2, 2016, p.77-101 (PDF via JStor)

Bucher, Charles, Jr., “Dating twentieth-century buildings by means of construction materials,” APT Bulletin, Vol.43, #2/3, 2012, p.71-76 (PDF via JStor)

Harris, Richard, Building a market: the rise of the home improvement industry, 1914-1960, The University of Chicago Press, HD9715.U62 H37 2012

Jester, Thomas C., “Aluminum finishes in postwar architecture,” APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology, Vol.46, #1, 2015, p.41-49 (PDF via JStor)

Jester, Thomas C. (editor), Twentieth-century building materials: history and conservation, Getty Conservation Institute, TA403.6 .T87 2014

Modernism,” APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology, Vol.48, #2-3, 2017 (Special issue)

 

POSTWAR / MID-CENTURY ARCHITECTURE (1945-mid-1970s)

Center for Historic Buildings, Growth, efficiency and modernism: GSA buildings of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, U.S. General Services Administration, JK1613 .G76 2003

Jacobs, James A., Detached America: building houses in postwar suburbia, University of Virginia Press, HD7287.82.U6 J33 2015

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 (PFD via JStor)

Longstreth, Richard W., Looking beyond the icons: midcentury architecture, landscape, and urbanism, University of Virginia Press, NA712.5.M63 L66 2015

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

 

RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS

Erlanger, Olivia, Garage, The MIT Press, NA8348 .E75 2018

Hoagland, Alison K., “Introducing the bathroom: space and change in working-class houses,” Building & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Vol.18, #2, 2011, p.15-42 (PDF via JStor)

Jacobs, James A., “Social and spatial change in the postwar family room,” Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol.13, #1, 2006 (via JStor)

Lane, Barbara Miller, Houses for a new world: builders and buyers in American suburbs, 1945-1965, Princeton University Press, NA7571 .L37 2015

Lasner, Matthew Gordon, “Architect as developer and the postwar U.S. apartment, 1945-1960,” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Vol.21, #1, 2014, p.27-55 (PDF via JStor)

Pearson, Clifford A. (editor), Modern American houses: fifty years of design in Architectural Record, H.N. Abrams; Architectural Record, NA7208 .M56 2005

Petty, Margaret Maile, “Threats and promises: the marketing and promotion of electric lighting to women in the United States, 1880s-1960sWest 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, Spring/Summer 2014, p.3-36 (PDF via JStor)

Webb, Michael, Modernism reborn: mid-century American houses, Universe Publishing, N7208 .W43 2001

1920s IN GENERAL

Currell, Susan, American culture in the 1920s, Edinburgh University Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Pommer, Richard, “Revising modernist history: the architecture of the 1920s and 1930s,” Art Journal, Vol.43, #2, 1983, p.107 (PDF via JStor)

 

AESTHETICS, THEORY & PRACTICE IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1920s

Goldhagen, Sarah Williams, “Something to talk about: modernism, discourse, style,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 2005, p.144-167 (PDF via JStor)

Linder, Mark, “Mumford's metaphors: sticks and stones versus ships and the sea,” Journal of Architectural Education, November 1992, p.95-103 (PDF via JStor)

Wilson, Richard Guy, The Machine Age in America 1918-1941, Brooklyn Museum; Abrams, TS23.W55 1986

 

ART DECO

​​Bruegmann, Robert (editor), Art Deco Chicago: designing modern America, Chicago Art Deco Society, N6494.A7 A6245 2018

Bush, Donald J,, “Streamlining and American industrial design,” Leonardo, Vol.7, #4, 1974, p.309-317 (PDF via JStor)

Charles, Victoria & Klaus H. Carl, Art Deco, Parkstone International, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Schwartzman, Arnold, Art deco: the twentieth century’s iconic decorative style, Rizzoli, NK789.5.A7 S46 2019

Striner, Richard, “Art Deco: polemics and synthesis,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.25, #1, 1990, p.21-34 (PDF via JStor)

Tise, Susan, "Art Deco," Oxford Art Online

Wilson, Richard Guy, "Machine aesthetic," Oxford Art Online

 

BUILDING TYPES IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1920s

Baughn, Jennifer V. Opager, “A modern school plant: rural consolidated schools in Mississippi, 1910-1955,” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Vol.19, #1, 2012, p.43-72 (PDF via JStor)

Davidson, Lisa Pfueller, “’A service machine’: hotel guests and the development of an early-twentieth-century building type,” Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol.10, 2005, p.113-129 (PDF via JStor)

Holliday, Kate, “Walls as curtains: architecture and humanism in Ralph Walker’s skyscrapers of the 1920s,” Studies in the Decorative Arts, Vol.16, #2, 2009, p.39-65 (PDF via JStor)

Longstreth, Richard, “The diffusion of the community shopping center concept during the interwar decades,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 1997, p.268-293 (PDF via JStor)

Wolner, Edward W., “The city-within-a-city and skyscraper patronage in the 1920's,” Journal of Architectural Education, Vol.42, #2, 1989, p.10-23 (PDF via JStor)

 

RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1920s

Cooke, Amanda & Avi Friedman, “Ahead of Their Time: The Sears Catalogue Prefabricated Houses,” Journal of Design History, Vol.14, #1, 2001, p.53-70 (PDF via JStor)

Hubka, Thomas C. & Judith T. Kenny, “Examining the American dream: housing standards and the emergence of a national housing culture, 1900-1930,” Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol.13, #1, 2006, p.49-69 (PDF via JStor)

Lane, Jonathan, “The Period House in the Nineteen-Twenties,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1961, p.169-178 (PDF via JStor)

Ray H. Bennett Lumber Co., Bennett’s small house catalog, 1920, Dover Publications, NA7205 .B43 1993

Tucker, Lisa Marie, “The small house problem in the United States, 1918-1945,” Journal of Design History, Vol.23, #1, 2010, p.43-59 (PDF via JStor)

 

CITIES & PLANNING IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1920s

Loeb, Carolyn S., Entrepreneurial vernacular: developers’ subdivisions in the 1920s, Johns Hopkins University Press, HD1390.3 .U6 L64 2001

McDonough, Michael, “Selling Sarasota: Architecture and Propaganda in a 1920s Boom Town,” The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Vol. 23, 1998, p.10-31 (PDF via JStor)

Park, Robert E. & Ernest W. Burgess, City: Suggestions for Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment, University of Chicago Press, HT151.P3 1925

Willis, Carol, “Zoning and zeitgeist: the skyscraper city in the 1920s,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1986, p.47-59 (PDF via JStor)

 

CONSTRUCTION & TECHNOLOGY IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1920s

Monteyne, David, “Framing the American dream,” Journal of Architectural Education, September 2004, p.24-33 (On platform framing) (PDF via JStor)

Tobin, Erin M., “When the imitation becomes real: attitudes toward asphalt and asbestos-cement roofing and siding,” APT Bulletin, Vol.31, #2/3, 2000, p.34-37 (PDF via JStor)

1930s IN GENERAL

Fiell, Charlotte & Peter Fiell, 30s & 40s Decorative art: a source book, Taschen, NK1980 .D43 2000

Gebhard, David, “The American Colonial Revival in the 1930s,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.22, #2/3, 1987, p.109-148 (PDF via JStor)

Greif, Martin, Depression modern: the thirties style in America, Universe Books, N6512 .G72

Morshed, Adnan, Impossible heights: skyscrapers, flight, and the master builder, University of Minnesota Press, NA2543.S6 M67 2015

Newcomb, James, “Depression Auto Styling,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.35, #1, 2000, p.81-100 (PDF via JStor)

 

AESTHETICS, THEORY & PRACTICE IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1930s

Adrienne Berney, “Streamlining breasts: the exaltation of form and disguise of function in 1930s' ideals,” Journal of Design History, Vol.14, #4, 2001, p.327-342 (PDF via JStor)

Esperdy, Gabrielle, “The odd-job alleyway of building: modernization, marketing, and architectural practice in the 1930s,” Journal of Architectural Education, May 2005, p.25-40 (PDF via JStor)

Henry-Russell Hitchcock & Philip Johnson, The international style, W. W. Norton, NA680.H5 1966

Lavoie, Catherine C., “Architectural plans and visions: the early HABS program and its documentation of vernacular architecture,” Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol.13, #2, 2006/2007, p.15-35 (PDF via JStor)

Matthews, Henry, “The promotion of modern architecture by the Museum of Modern Art in the 1930s,” Journal of Design History, Vol.7, #1, 1994, p.43-59 (PDF via JStor)

Riley, Terence, The international style: exhibition 15 and the Museum of Modern Art, Rizzoli / CBA, NA680.H5 1992

Schapiro, Meyer, et al, “Looking forward to looking backward: a dossier of writings on architecture from the 1930s,” Grey Room, #6, 2002, p.66-109 (PDF via JStor)

Shanken, Andrew, “Breaking the taboo: architects and advertising in depression and war,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 2010, p.406-429 (PDF via JStor)

 

CITIES & PLANNING IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1930s

Abbott, Bernice, New York in the thirties, F128.37.A23 1973

Campanella, Thomas J., “Playground of the century: a political and design history of New York’s greatest unbuilt park,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 2013, p.189-204 (PDF via JStor)

Fotsch, Paul Mason, “The Building of a superhighway future at the New York World's Fair,” Cultural Critique, #48, 2001, p.65-97 (PDF via JStor)

Heathcott, Joseph, “’In the nature of the clinic’: the design of early public housing in St. Louis,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2011, p.82-103 (PDF via JStor)

Walker, Nathaniel Robert, “Savannah’s lost squares: progress versus beauty in the Depression-era South,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 2011, p.512-531 (PDF via JStor)

Ward, Josi, “’Dreams of Oriental romance’: reinventing Chinatown in 1930s Los Angeles,” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Vol.20, #1, 2013, p.19-42 (PDF via JStor)

The WPA guide to New York City: the Federal Writers' Project guide to 1930s New York, Pantheon Books, F128.18 .N375 1982

 

CONSTRUCTION & TECHNOLOGY IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1930s

Fitch, James Marston, “The Rise of Technology: 1929-1939,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1965, p.75-77 (PDF via JStor)

Rovang, Sarah, “Envisioning the future of modern farming: the electrified farm at the 1939 New York World’s Fair,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 2015, p.201-222 (PDF via JStor)

Rovang, Sarah, “The grid comes home: wiring and lighting the American farmhouse,” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Vol,23, #2, 2016, p.65-88 (PDF via JStor)

Wermiel, Sara E., “Early curtain-wall buildings and the Higgins Armory Museum in Massachusetts,” APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology, Vol.45, #1, 2014, p.43-49 (PDF via JStor)

 

THE NEW DEAL (including the Tennessee Valley Authority, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the Housing Division, PWA)

Esperdy, Gabrielle, Modernizing Main Street: architecture and consumer culture in the New Deal, University of Chicago Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Greengard, Stephen Neil, et al., “Ten Crucial Years: The Development of United States Government Sponsored Artists Programs 1933-1943,” The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Vol.1, 1986, p.40-61 (PDF via JStor)

Hemingway, Andrew, "Cultural Democracy by Default: The Politics of the New Deal Arts Programmes." Oxford Art Journal, Vol.30, #2, 2007, p.271-87

Leighninger, Robert D., Jr., “Cultural Infrastructure: The Legacy of New Deal Public Space,” Journal of Architectural Education, May 1996, p.226-236 (PDF via JStor)

Maresca, Joseph, WPA buildings: architecture and art of the new deal, Schiffer Publishing, N8838 .M37 2016

Pommer, Richard, “The architecture of urban housing in the United States during the early 1930s,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1978, p.235-264 (PDF via JStor)

Radford, Gail, Modern housing for America: policy struggles in the New Deal era, University of Chicago Press, HD7293 .R28 1996 (Also available via Ebook Central)

Short, C. W. et al, Public buildings: a survey of architecture of projects constructed by federal and other governmental bodies between the years 1933 and 1939, Public Works Administration: United States Government Printing Office, NA4208 .A4 1939

 

RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1930s

Donnelly, Jennifer, “Myth, modernity, and mass housing: the development of public housing in Depression-era ClevelandTraditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Vol.25, #1, 2013, p.55-68 (PDF via JStor)

Ford, James, Classic modern homes of the thirties, Dover Publications, NA7208 .F6 1989

Murphy, Kevin D., “The vernacular moment: Eleanor Raymond, Walter Gropius, and New England Modernism between the wars,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 2011, p.308-329 (PDF via JStor)

Ricciotti, Dominic, “Edward Durell Stone and the International Style in America: houses of the 1930s,” American Art Journal, Vol.20, #3, 1988, p.48-73 (PDF via JStor)

1940s IN GENERAL

Arts & Architecture, 1945-1954: the complete reprint, Taschen, Office-NA1 .A84 1945

Mock, Elizabeth (editor), Built in USA, 1932-1944, Museum of Modern Art, NA712.N45 1944

 

AESTHETICS, THEORY & PRACTICE IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1940s

Kassler, Elizabeth B., If you want to build a house, Museum of Modern Art, NA7120 .M6 1946

Schleier, Merrill, “Ayn Rand and King Vidor's film The Fountainhead: architectural modernism, the gendered body, and political ideology,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 2002, p.310-331 (PDF via JStor)

Wallach, Alan, “Oliver Larkin's Art and Life in America: between the popular front and the Cold War,” American Art, Vol.15, #3, 2001, p.80-89 (PDF via JStor)

 

BUILDING TYPES IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1940s

Longstreth, Richard, "The mixed blessings of success: The Hecht Company and department store branch development after World War II," Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol.6, 1997, p.244-62 (PDF via JStor)

“Miniature skyscraper of blue glass and metal challenges postwar craze for over-building city lots,” Architectural Forum, June 1950, p.84-89

Winton, Alexandra Griffith, “A man's house is his art: 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)

 

RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1940s

Friedman, Avi, “The evolution of design characteristics during the post-Second World War housing boom: the US experience,” Journal of Design History, Vol.8, #2, 1995, p.131-146 (PDF via JStor)

Herbert, Gilbert, The dream of the factory-made house: Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann, MIT Press, NA7145 .H47 1984

Marcus, George H., “Louis Kahn and the architectural barbecue,” Journal of Design History, Vol.26, #2, 2013, p.168-181 (PDF via JStor)

“Three privately developed apartment houses,” Pencil Points, January 1944, p.51-56 (Los Angeles apartments)

“What is a house?” California Arts and Architecture, July 1944 (Theme issue)

 

CITIES & PLANNING IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1940s

Feininger, Andreas, New York in the forties, Dover Publications, F128.37 .F457

Findlay, John M., Magic Lands: Western cityscapes and American culture after 1940, University of California Press, HT384.U52A174 1992

 

WORLD WAR II

Albrecht, Donald, World War II and the American dream, National Building Museum; MIT Press, HD7289.W67 1995

Cohen, Jean-Louis, Architecture in uniform: designing and building for the Second World War, Canadian Centre for Architecture, NA680 .C589 2011

The Oxford Companion to United States History: World War II, Oxford Reference Online

Shanken, Andrew Michael, 194X: architecture, planning, and consumer culture on the American front, University of Minnesota Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

1950s IN GENERAL

Architectural Forum magazine (bound volumes from 1950-1973 are in the stacks)

Architectural Record magazine (bound volumes from 1950 are in the stacks)

“The P/A Design Awards,” an annual feature in the January issue of Progressive Architecture magazine, 1954-60

 

AESTHETICS, THEORY & PRACTICE IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1950s

Boucher, Denise, 1950s American home, Shire Publications, NK2004.B753 2013

Colomina, Beatriz, “Enclosed by Images: The Eameses' Multimedia Architecture,” Grey Room, #2, 2001, p.5-29 (PDF via JStor)

DeSilets, Eugene R., et al, “Highway aesthetics,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, October 1957, p.28-37 (PDF via JStor)

Journal of Architectural Education 1947-1974, via JStor.org. (Published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture - ACSA)

Lange, Alexandra, “This year's model representing modernism to the post-war American corporation,” Journal of Design History, Vol.19, #3, 2006, p.233-248 (PDF via JStor)

McDonald, Gay, “Selling the American dream: MoMA, industrial design and post-war France,” Journal of Design History, Vol.17, #4, 2004, p.397-412 (PDF via JStor)

Miller, Richard A., “Disenchantment and criticism: the state of modern architecture,” Journal of Architectural Education (1947-1974), Vol.14, #1, 1959, p.9-12 (PDF via JStor)

McNiven, Roger D., “The middle-class American home of the fifties: the use of architecture in Nicholas Ray's Bigger than Life and Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows,” Cinema Journal, Vol.22, #4, 1983, p.38-57 (PDF via JStor)

Perspecta, via JStor.org. (The Yale architecture journal published since 1952)

Rudolph, Paul, “Regionalism in architecture,” Perspecta, Vol.4, 1957, p.12-19 (PDF via JStor)

 

BUILDING TYPES IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1950s

Hess, Alan, Googie: fifties coffee shop architecture, NA7856 .H471 1986

Hess, Alan, Googie redux: ultramodern roadside architecture, Chronicle Books, NA7856.H47 2004

Hess, Alan, “The origins of McDonald's golden arches,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1986, p.60-67 (PDF via JStor)

Loeffler, Jane C., “The architecture of diplomacy: heyday of the United States embassy-building program, 1954-1960,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 1990, p.251-278 (PDF via JStor)

Spina, Davide, “II Drive-In,” AA Files, #74, 2017, p.173-182 (PDF via JStor)

Webster, J. Carson, “The skyscraper: logical and historical considerations,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1959, p.126-139 (PDF via JStor)

 

RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1950s

Allen, Barbara L., “The ranch-style house in America: a cultural and environmental discourse,” Journal of Architectural Education (1984-), February 1996, p.156-165 (PDF via JStor)

“Apartments,” Architectural Forum, January 1950 (Theme issue)

“Apartments,” Architectural Record, September 1950 (Theme issue)

“Apartments,” Architectural Record, June 1959 (Theme issue)

Randl, Chad, A-Frame, Princeton Architectural Press, NA7575 .R35 2004 (Also available via Ebook Central)

“Record Houses,” an annual feature of the Mid-May issue of Architectural Record, 1956-1960.

“The single family house,” Progressive Architecture, March 1953, p.75-95

 

CITIES & PLANNING IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1950s

De Mars, Vernon, “Planning: The Educational Problem,” Journal of Architectural Education, Vol.13, #2, 1958, p.26-29 (PDF via JStor)

Fogelson, Robert M., Downtown: its rise and fall, 1880-1950, Yale University Press, HT123 .F64 2001 (Also available via Ebook Central)

Helphand, Kenneth I., "McUrbia: the 1950s and the Birth of the Contemporary American Landscape," Places, Vol.5, #2, 1988, p.40-49

Jones, Barclay Gibbs, “Teaching city planning to architects,” Journal of Architectural Education, Vol.13, #2, 1958, p.36-40 (PDF via JStor)

Marling, Karal Ann, “Disneyland, 1955: just take the Santa Ana freeway to the American dream,” American Art, Vol.5, #1/2, 1991, p.169-207 (PDF via JStor)

Ridge, Martin, Revisiting Eden: Los Angeles, a city of the future, 1950-1990, Historical Society of Southern California, F869.L86 R5 2002

Stein, Clarence S., Toward New Towns for America, MIT Press, NA9108.S8 1967

 

THE COLD WAR IN THE 1950s

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

Lichtman, Sarah A., “Do-it-yourself security: safety, gender, and the home fallout shelter in Cold War America,” Journal of Design History, Vol.19, #1, 2006, p.39-55 (PDF via JStor)

Monteyne, David, Fallout shelter: designing for civil defense in the Cold War, University of Minnesota Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Wharton, Annabel, Building the Cold War: Hilton International hotels and modern architecture, University of Chicago, NA7850.M628 W48 2001

 

CONSTRUCTION & TECHNOLOGY IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1950s

Concrete Construction, American Concrete Institute, TA681.C59 (Construction articles published in the ACI Journal from 1952-1968)

The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956

Sprague, Tyler S., “’Beauty, versatility, practicality’: the rise of hyperbolic paraboloids in post-war America (1950-1962),” Construction History, Vol.28, #1, 2013, p.165-184 (PDF via JStor)

 

MIDCENTURY MODERNISM

Arts & Architecture (The classic L.A. magazine, published until 1967. Revived briefly in the 1980s)

Boucher, Denise, 1950s American home, Shire Publications, NK2004.B753 2013

Bradbury, Dominic, Mid-century modern complete, Abrams, NK1390 .B73 2014

Gebhard, David. "Eames," Oxford Art Online

Jackson, Lesley, Contemporary: architecture and interiors of the 1950s, Phaidon Press, NA682 .I58 C66 1994

Korvenmaa, Pekka & Peter C. Papademetriou, "Saarinen family," Oxford Art Online

Liscombe, R.W., The new Spirit: modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963, Canadian Centre for Architecture, NA747.V3 L57

McCoy, Esther, Case Study Houses 1945-1962, Hennessey & Ingalls, NA7235.C2M2 1977

Quinn, Bradley, Mid-century modern: interiors, furniture, design details, Conran Octopus, NK2395 .Q85 2004

Shulman, Julius, Los Angeles: the birth of a modern metropolis, Rizzoli, TR659 .S584 2016

Smith, Elizabeth A. T., Case study houses: the California impetus, Taschen, NA7235.C2 S65 2007

Smith, Elizabeth A. T., Case study houses: the complete CSH program 1945-1966, Taschen, Office-NA7235.C22 S65 2002

 

THE NEW YORK SCHOOL

Anfam, David, Abstract expressionism, Thames & Hudson, N6512.5.A25A89 1990

Auping, Michael, Abstract Expressionism: the critical developments, H.N. Abrams; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, ND212.6.A25A22 1987

Copeland, Roger, “Merce Cunningham and the aesthetic of collage,” TDR (1988-), Vol.46, #1, 2002, p.11-28 (PDF via JStor)

Geldzahler, Henry, New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970, Dutton, N6535.N5 G4 1969

Joseph, Branden W., “John Cage and the architecture of silence,” October, Vol.81, 1997, p.80-104 (PDF via JStor)

Lum, Eric, “Pollock's promise: toward an Abstract Expressionist architecture,” Assemblage, August 1999, pp. 62-93. (PDF via JStor)

New myths for old: redefining Abstract Expressionism,” a special issue of Art Journal, Vol.47, #3, 1988 (PDF via JStor)

Michelle Potter, “A license to do anything: Robert Rauschenberg and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company,” Dance Chronicle, Vol.16, #1, 1993, p.1-43 (PDF via JStor)

Rosenberg, Howard, “The American Action Painters,” Art in theory 1900-1990, Blackwell Publishing, N6490 .A7167 2003, p.589

Sandler, Irving, The New York School: the painters and sculptors of the fifties, N6512.5 .N4S26 1978

 

SUBURBIA IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1950s

Adams, Annmarie, “The Eichler home: intention and experience in postwar suburbia,” Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture,” Vol.5, 1995, p.164-178 (PDF via JStor)

Baxandall, Rosalyn Fraad, Picture windows: how the suburbs happened, Basic Books, HT351.B37 2000

Building like America: Making Other Plans,” Assemblage, August 1994, p.8-11 (House Rules theme issue; PDF via JStor)

Duany, Andres, Suburban nation: the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American dream, HT384.U5D83 2000

Harris, Dianne (editor), Second suburb: Levittown, Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh Press, F159.L6 S43 2010 (Also available via Ebook Central )

Howell, Ocean, “The merchant crusader: Eichler Homes and fair housing, 1949-1974, Pacific Historical Review, August 2016, p.379-407 (PDF via JStor)

Jackson, Kenneth T., Crabgrass frontier, the suburbanization of the United States, Oxford University Press, HT384.U5J33 1985

Kelly, Barbara M., Expanding the American dream: building and rebuilding Levittown, SUNY Press, 1993

Martin, Frank Edgerton, “Before new urbanism,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, December 2001, p.48-51, 82-83 (PDF via JStor)

Scott-Brown, Denise, "Suburban space, scale and symbols," Via, # 3, 1977, p.40-47

1960s IN GENERAL

Architecture magazine (bound volumes from 1962 are in the stacks)

Boettger, Suzaan, Earthworks: art and the landscape of the sixties, University of California Press, N6494.E27 B64 2002

Jackson, Leslie, The sixties: decade of design revolution, Phaidon Press, NK1390.J32 1998

Lam, Elsa & Graham Livesey (editors), Canadian modern architecture: 1967 to present, Princeton University Press, NA745 .C27 2019

“The P/A Design Awards,” an annual feature in the January issue of Progressive Architecture magazine, 1961-1970

Tzonis, Alexander & Liane Lefaivre, Architecture in North America since 1960, Bulfinch Press, NA712.T97 1995

 

AESTHETICS, THEORY & PRACTICE IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1960s

Alexander, Christopher, Notes on the synthesis of form, Harvard University Press, NK1505.A4

Maniaque Benton, Caroline, French encounters with the American counterculture, 1960-1980, Ashgate, NA2543.S6 M353 2011

Steele, Brett & Francisco Gonzalez de Canales (editors), First works: emerging architectural experimentation of the 1960s & 1970s, Architectural Association, NA680 .F57 2009

Venturi, Robert, “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture: selections from a forthcoming book,” Perspecta, Vol.9/10, 1965, p.17-56 (PDF via JStor)

Wetenhall, John, “Camelot's legacy to public art: aesthetic ideology in the new frontier,” Art Journal, Vol.48, #4, 1989, p.303-308 (PDF via JStor)

Whiteley, Nigel, “Toward a throw-away culture. consumerism, style obsolescence and cultural theory in the 1950s and 1960s,” Oxford Art Journal, Vol.10, #2, 1987, p.3-27 (PDF via JStor)

 

BUILDING TYPES IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1960s

Harwood, John, “The White Room: Eliot Noyes and the logic of the information age interior,” Grey Room, #12, 2003, p.5-31 (PDF via JStor)

Monteyne, David, “Boston City Hall and a history of reception,” Journal of Architectural Education, October 2011, p.45-62 (PDF via JStor)

Nicoletta, Julie, “Selling spirituality and spectacle: religious pavilions at the New York World’s Fair of 1964-65,” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of Vernacular Architecture Forum, Vol.22, #2, 2015, p.62-88 (PDF via JStor)

“Tall office buildings: the process of development,” Architectural Record, April 1969, p.181-196

 

RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1960s

“Apartments,” Architectural Forum, May 1960 (Theme issue)

“Apartments,” Architectural Record, April 1965 (Theme issue)

“Apartments: what next?” Architectural Forum, March 1964, p.70-83

“Record Houses,” an annual feature of the Mid-May issue of Architectural Record, 1961-1970.

Rubin, Elihu, “Viewpoint: new in town: the California garden apartment in the 1960s,” Building & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Vol.21, #1, 2014, p.1-26 (PDF via JStor)

“Small apartments and townhouses,” Architectural Record, January 1968, p.145-160

 

CITIES & PLANNING IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1960s

"Advocacy: a community planning voice," Design Quarterly, #82/83, 1971

Davidoff, Paul, “Democratic planning,” Perspecta, Vol.11, 1967, p.157-159 (PDF via JStor)

El-Geneidy, Ahmed, et al, “Montreal’s roots: exploring the growth of Montreal’s indoor city,” Journal of Transport and Land Use, Vol.4, #2, 2011, p.33-46 (PDF via JStor)

Heifetz, Robert J., “The urban crisis,” Journal of Architectural Education, October 1969, p.31-34 (PDF via JStor)

Jacobs, Jane, The death and life of great American cities, Modern Library edition (original 1961 edition, Random House), NA9108 .J33 2011

The Journal of the American Planning Association (bound volumes from 1963 are in the stacks)

Lortie, André (editor), The 60s: Montreal thinks big, Canadian Centre for Architecture; Douglas & McIntyre, NA9130.M6 A14 2004

Lynch, Kevin, The image of the city, MIT Press, NA9108.L9

McConnell, Shean, “Urban renewal in the United States,” Official Architecture and Planning, February 1968, p.204-206, 209-211 (PDF via JStor)

Riley, R.B., "Dreams of tomorrow," Architectural Forum, April 1967, p.66-67, 112-113

Spalding, Sophie, “The myth of the classic slum: contradictory perceptions of Boyle Heights Flats, 1900-1991,” Journal of Architectural Education, February 1992, p.107-119 (PDF via JStor)

Whyte, William Hollingsworth, Cluster development, American Conservation Association, NA9108 .W5 1964

Wilson, James Q., Urban Renewal: the record and the controversy, MIT Press, TH175.U5 W69

 

CONSTRUCTION & TECHNOLOGY IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1960s

Fuller, R. Buckminster, No more secondhand God, and other writings, Southern Illinois University Press, NA2595.F8 1963

Fuller, R. Buckminster, Operating manual for spaceship earth, Simon and Schuster, T14.F84 1969

Tuchman, Maurice, A report on the Art & Technology Program of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967-1971, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, N72.T4L64

 

POP & MINIMAL ART IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1960s

Stephen Bann, “Pop Art and genre,” Literary History, Vol.24, #1, 1993, p.115-124 (PDF via JStor)

Battcock, Gregory, Minimal art: a critical anthology, University of California Press, N6512.M5M56 1995

Goldstein, Ann, A minimal future? Art as object 1958-1968, MIT Press, N6512.5.M5M5626 2004

Harrison, Sylvia, Pop art and the origins of post-modernism, Cambridge University Press, 2001 (via Ebook Central)

Meyer, James, Minimalism, Phaidon, Office-N6494.M5 M49 2000

Russell, John, Pop art redefined, Praeger, N6494.P6R82

Sandberg, John, “Some traditional aspects of Pop Art,” Art Journal, Vol.26, #3, 1967, p.228-245 (PDF via JStor)

Want, Christopher, "Minimalism," Oxford Art Online

Whiting, Cecile, Pop L.A.: art and the city in the 1960s, University of California Press, NX511.L67W55 2006

Williams, Tom, "Pop Art in the United States,Oxford Art Online

1970s IN GENERAL

Bernstein, William & Ruth Cawker, Contemporary Canadian architecture: the mainstream and beyond, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, NA745.B47 1982

Lavin, Sylvia (editor), Everything loose will land: 1970s art and architecture in Los Angeles, MAK Center for Art and Architecture; Verlag für modern Kunst Nürnberg, NA735.L55 E94 2013

“The P/A Design Awards,” an annual feature in the January issue of Progressive Architecture magazine, 1971-1980

Stern, Robert A. M., New directions in American architecture, G. Braziller, NA712.S7

Whiteson, Leon, Modern Canadian architecture, Hurtig Publishers, NA745.W46 1983

 

AESTHETICS, THEORY & PRACTICE IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1970s

Alexander, Christopher, A Pattern language: towns, buildings, construction, Oxford University Press, NA2500.A445

Alexander, Christopher, The timeless way of building, Oxford University Press, NA2500.A45

Bloomer, Kent C. & Charles W. Moore, Body, memory, and architecture, Yale University Press, NA2542.4.B57

Brown, Travis, Jr., “On an aesthetic of highway speed,” JAE, September 1976, p.25-27 (PDF via JStor)

Davern, Jeanne M. (editor), Architecture 1970-1980: a decade of change, McGraw-Hill, NA2542.35 .A73

Diamonstein, Barbaralee, American architecture now, Rizzoli, NA712 .D47

Hayden, Dolores & Gwendolyn Wright, “Architecture and Urban Planning,” Signs, Vol.1, #4, 1976, p.923-933 (PDF via JStor)

Hays, K. Michael, Architecture Theory Since 1968, MIT Press, NA680.A728 1998

Hays, K. Michael, Oppositions reader: selected readings from a journal for ideas and criticism in architecture, 1973-1984, Princeton Architectural Press, Office-NA680.O69 1998

Heyer, Paul, Architects on architecture; new directions in America, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NA736.H4

JAE (1975-1983), (PDF via JStor) Continuation of the Journal of Architectural Education.

Jencks, Charles, The post-modern reader, Academy Editions; St. Martin’ Press, B831.2 .P65 1992

Jencks, Charles & Nathan Silver, Adhocism; the case for improvisation, Anchor Books, NX165.J46 (2013 edition published by MIT Press available via Ebook Central)

Labs, Kenneth, “The underground design movement of the 1970’s,Landscape architecture, May 1977, p.244-249 (PDF via JStor)

Mathy, Jean-Philippe, “Out of history: French readings of postmodern America,” American Literary History, Vol.2, #2, 1990, p.267-298 (PDF via JStor)

Norberg-Schulz, Christian, Existence, space & architecture, Praeger Publishers, NA2765 .N75 1971

Steele, Brett & Francisco Gonzalez de Canales (editors), First works: emerging architectural experimentation of the 1960s & 1970s, Architectural Association, NA680 .F57 2009

 

BUILDING TYPES IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1970s

Khan, Fazlur R., “The future of high rise structures,” Progressive Architecture, October 1972, p.78-85

“High-rise office buildings: the public spaces they make,” Architectural Record, March 1974, p.127-142

“Tall Buildings,” Architecture, January 1973 (Theme issue)

"Tall Office Buildings: design directions," Progressive Architecture, December 1980 (Theme issue)

 

RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1970s

“Apartments,” Architectural Record, September 1970, p.143-156

“Apartments of the year,” Architectural Record, May 1975, p.93-110

“Apartments of the year,” Architectural Record, Mid-May 1978, p.111-126

“Discrimination in housing design,” Architectural Record, March 1975, p.141-156

"Housing," Progressive Architecture, May 1972 (Theme issue)

"Housing: High-Rise Vs. Low-Rise," Progressive Architecture, March 1976 (Theme issue)

Museum of Modern Art, Another chance for housing: low-rise alternatives, MOMA, NA7860 .N48

Plumb, Barbara, Houses architects live in, The Viking Press, NA7195 .A7 P59 1977

“Record Houses,” an annual feature of the Mid-May issue of Architectural Record, 1971-1980.

Turner, John F. C., Housing by People: towards autonomy in building environments, HD7287.5.T86 1977

 

CITIES & PLANNING IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1970s

Albert, Frants, “Prologue to urban space,” JAE, April 1977, p.6-10 (PDF via JStor)

Dolores Hayden, “What would a non-sexist city be like? Speculations on housing, urban design, and human work,” Signs, Vol.5, #3, 1980, p.S170-S187 (PDF via JStor)

McCabe, R.E., et al, Cities 70: 1970 architects & engineers forum, [publisher unidentified], HT165 .S68 1970

Rowe, Colin & Fred Koetter, Collage city, MIT Press, NA9050.R68

Women and the American city,” supplement of Signs, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1980, p.S170-S187 (PDF via JStor)

 

CONSTRUCTION & TECHNOLOGY IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1970s

Educational Facilities Laboratories, Four fabric structures, EFL, TH2249 .E34 1975

Kreider, Jan F. & Frank Kreith, Solar heating and cooling: engineering, practical design, and economics, Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, TH7413 .K73 1977

Morris, A. E. J., Precast concrete in architecture, The Whitney Library of Design, TH1461 .M63 1978

 

ENVIRONMENTALISM IN THE 1970s

Anderson, Bruce, The solar home book: heating, cooling, and designing with the sun, Cheshire Books, TH7413 .A53

Brand, Stuart, The Whole Earth Epilog, Penguin Books, TS199.W49

Davern, Jeanne M. (editor), Architecture, 1970-1980: a decade of change, McGraw-Hill, NA2542.35 .A73

Environmental Design Research Association, Fourth international EDRA conference, Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, NA2542.35 .E694 1973

"Environmental Impact," Progressive Architecture, June 1974 (Theme issue)

Hays, K. Michael, Buckminster Fuller: starting with the universe, Whitney Museum of American Art; Yale University Press, NA737.F8 A4 2008

Hughes, James W. & Kenneth D. Bleakly, Urban homesteading, Center for Urban Policy Research, HD7293 .H83

Kahn, Lloyd, Shelter, Shelter Publications, Oversize-NA7110.S53 1973

Kahn, Lloyd, Shelter II, Shelter Publications, TH4812 .K34 1978

Krausse, Joachim & Claude Lichtenstein (editors), Your private sky: discourse, Lars Müller; Museum of Design, TA140.F9 A3 2001

Krausse, Joachim & Claude Lichtenstein (editors), Your private sky: R. Buckminster Fuller, the art of design science, Lars Müller, TA140.F9 A4 1999

Leckie, Jim, et al, More Other homes and garbage: designs for self-sufficient living, Sierra Club Books, TH4812 .M67 1981

"Life Support Systems for a Dying Planet," Progressive Architecture, October 1971 (Theme issue)

Papanek, Victor, Design for the real world: human ecology and social change, Pantheon Books, TS171.4.P37 1972

Sadler, Simon, “The Bateson Building, Sacramento, California, 1977-81, and the design of a new age state,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 2016, p.469-489 (PDF via JStor)

Sky, Alison, et al (editors), On site, on energy, Site, Inc., TJ810 .S9

"Special Energy Insert," L.A. Architect, December 1977

 

NEO-MODERNISM IN THE 1970s

Quantrill, Malcolm, “Eisenman, Peter D.,” Grove Art Online

Quantrill, Malcolm, "Meier, Richard," Grove Art Online

Rowe, Colin, Five architects: Eisenman, Graves, Gwathmey, Hejduk, Meier, Oxford University Press, NA7208.F54 1975

Smith, Walter, “Gwathmey, Charles,” Oxford Art Online

Smith, Walter, "New York Five," Oxford Art Online

Thadani, Dhiru A., Five Architects: twenty years later, [publisher not identified], NA7280.F54 1992

 

POST-MODERNISM IN THE 1970S—1980S

Borsano, Gabriella (editor), Architecture 1980: the presence of the past: Venice Biennale, Rizzoli, NA1118 .A72

Collins, Michael & Andreas Papadakis, Post-modern design, Rizzoli; Academy, NK1396.P66 C65 1989

Ghirardo, Diane, Architecture after modernism, Thames and Hudson, NA682.P67 G49 1996

Jencks, Charles, The language of post-modern architecture, Rizzoli, NA680 .J457

Jencks, Charles, The story of post-modernism, John Wiley & Son, NA682.P67 J46 2011

Jones, Caroline A., "Post-modernism," Oxford Art Online

Porphyrios, Demetri (editor), Classicism is not a style, Architectural Design, NA680 .C584 1982

Portoghesi, Paolo, Postmodern, the architecture of the post-industrial society, Rizzoli, NA682.P67 P67513 1983

Smith, C. Ray, Supermannerism: new attitudes in post-modern architecture, Dutton, NA680 .S56 1977

Venturi, Robert, Complexity and contradiction in architecture, Museum of Modern Art, NA2760.V46 1977

Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas: the forgotten symbolism of architectural form, MIT Press, NA735.L3 V4 1977

Venturi, Robert, A view from the Campidoglio: selected essays, 1953-1984, Harper & Row, NA2540.V4 1984

 

POST-MINIMAL ART IN THE 1970S

Bois, Yve-Alain & John Shepley, “A picturesque stroll around Clara-Clara,” October, Vol.29, 1984, p.32-62 (PDF via JStor)

Colpitt, Francis & Phyllis Plous, Knowledge: aspects of conceptual art, University Art Museum, N6512.C64P56 1992

Craven, David, "Conceptual art," Oxford Art Online

Earthworks: past and present,” special issue of Art Journal, Vol.42, #3, 1982 (PDF via JStor)

Goldberg, RoseLee, "Performance art," Oxford Art Online

Hartney, Mick, "Video art," Oxford Art Online

Kastner, Jeffrey & Brian Wallis, Land and environmental art, Phaidon Press, N6494.E27L36 1998

Morgan, Robert C., Conceptual art: an American perspective, McFarland, N6512.5 .C64 M67 1994

Norvell, Patricia, Recording conceptual art: early interviews with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt, Morris, Oppenheim, Siegelaub, Smithson, and Weiner, University of California Press, 2001 (via Ebook Central)

Pacquement, Alfred, "Land art," Oxford Art Online

Serra, Richard, “Notes from Sight Point Road,” Perspecta, Vol.19, 1982, p.173-181 (PDF via JStor)

Siegelaub, Seth, Context of art, the art of context, Navado Press, N6490.4 C66 2004

Vazan, William & Paul Heyer, “Conceptual art: transformation of natural and of cultural environments,” Leonardo, Vol.7, #3, 1974, p.201-205 (PDF via JStor)

Williams, Tom, "Process artOxford Art Online

1980s IN GENERAL

Bangert, Albrecht, 80s style: designs of the decade, Abbeville Press, NK1390.B26 1990

“The P/A Design Awards,” an annual feature in the January issue of Progressive Architecture magazine, 1981-1990

 

AESTHETICS, THEORY & PRACTICE IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1980s

Assemblage, (PDF via JStor) Published 1986-2000.

Chase, John, “The Role of Consumerism in American Architecture,” Journal of Architectural Education (1984-), August 1991, p.211-224 (PDF via JStor)

Delillo, Don, "The most photographed barn in America," (White Noise, 1985), in Storming the reality studio, edited by Larry McCaffery, Duke University Press, PS374.S35S76 1991

Diamonstein, Barbaralee, American architecture now II, Rizzoli, NA712 .D472 1985

Diani, Marco & Catherine Ingraham (editors), Restructuring architectural theory, Northwestern University Press, NA2500 .R45 1988

Foster, Hal, The Anti-aesthetic: essays on postmodern culture, Bay Press, BH301.M54 A57 1983

Foster, Hal, Vision and Visuality, Bay Press, N72.S6D57 1987

Frampton, Kenneth, “Prospects for a Critical Regionalism,” Perspecta, Vol.20, 1983, p.147-162 (PDF via JStor)

Journal of Architectural Education (1984-present), (PDF via JStor) Continuation of the JAE journal.

McLeod, Mary, “Architecture and politics in the Reagan era: from Postmodernism to Deconstructivism,” Assemblage, February 1989, p.22-59 (PDF via JStor)

Pommer, Richard, “Architecture and the collective consumer,” Assemblage, February 1989, p.124-131 (PDF via JStor)

Saliga, Pauline, “Architecture and design in American museums circa 2000,” Design Issues, Vol.5, #1, 988, p.71-81 (PDF via JStor)

Wallis, Brian, Blasted Allegories: anthology of writings by contemporary artists, MIT Press, NX605.B5 1987

 

APPROPRIATION & NEO EXPRESSIONIST ART IN THE 1980s

Crimp, Douglas, “Pictures,” October, Vol.8. Spring 1979, p.75-88 (PDF via JStor)

“The Critique of Originality,” in Art in theory 1900-1990, edited by Charles Harrison & Paul Wood, N6490.A7167 1992, p.1049-1128

Heartney, Eleanor, “Neo-expressionism,” chapter in Postmodernism, Cambridge University Press, N6494 .P66 H43 2001

Kuspit, Donald, “The appropriation of marginal art in the 1980s,” American Art, Vol.5, #1/2, 1991, p.132-141 (PDF via JStor)

Marshall, Richard, New image painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, ND212.M35

“Paroxysms of Painting,” chapter in Art After Modernism, New Museum of Contemporary Art; D.R. Godine, NX456.5.P66A74 1984 (Essays on neo-expressionism by Benjamin Buchloh, Donald Kuspit & Thomas Lawson)

 

BUILDING TYPES IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1980s

“American Lofts,” Lotus International, no. 66. 1990

Dear, Michael & Jennifer Wolch, Malign Neglect: homelessness in an American city, Jossey-Bass Publishers, HV4506.L67W65 1993

"High Rise Office Buildings," Architectural Record, October 1990 (Theme issue)

Pelli, Cesar, et al, "Skyscrapers," Perspecta, Vol.18, 1982, p.134-151

“Record Houses,” an annual feature of the Mid-May issue of Architectural Record, 1981-1983. After 1983 it appears in the Mid-April issue, 1984-1990.

Scuri, Piera, Late-twentieth-century skyscrapers, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NA6232.S27 1990

Searing, Helen, New American art museums, Whitney Museum of American Art; University of California Press, NA6700.A1 S4 1982

"Skyscraper View," Design Quarterly, #140, 1988 (Theme issue)

"The Third Wave in Skyscrapers," Space Design, September 1987 (Theme issue)

 

RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1980s

“Apartments of the year,” Architectural Record, Mid-May, 1980

“City living: Three states of the art; multifamily housing,” Architectural Record, July 1986 (Building types study)

Gutman, Marta, “Housers and other architects: pragmatism and aesthetics in recent competitions,” Journal of Architectural Education (1984-), February 1993, p.131-146 (PDF via JStor)

"Houses: the contextual response," Progressive Architecture, December 1989 (Theme issue)

"Housing," Architecture, July 1989 (Theme issue)

Process Architecture: low rise housing in America, NA6.P94 #14

"Multifamily Housing," Architectural Record, August 1984 (Building types study)

Rybczynski, Witold, Home: a short history of an idea, Viking Penguin, Inc., NA7125.R9 1986

"Solving the Housing Crisis," Progressive Architecture, October 1988 (Theme issue)

"Subsidized Housing," Progressive Architecture, July 1984 (Theme issue)

 

CITIES & PLANNING IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1980s

Albrecht, Johann, “Towards a theory of participation in architecture: an examination of humanistic planning theories,” Journal of Architectural Education (1984-), Vol.42, #1, 1988, p.24-31 (PDF via JStor)

Alexander, Christopher, et. al., A new theory of urban design, Oxford University Press, NA9031 .A381 1987

Castells, Manuel, Informational city: information technology, economic restructuring and the urban-regional process, B. Blackwell, HC79.I55C37 1989

Hayden, Dolores, “Placemaking, preservation and urban history,” Journal of Architectural Education (1984-), Vol.41, #3, 1988, p.45-51 (PDF via JStor)

Lynch, Kevin, Good City Form, MIT Press, HT166.L96 1984

Perloff, Harvey S., Planning the post-industrial city, Planners Press, HT167 .P43 1980

Places magazine (bound volumes from 1985 are in the stacks)

Planning magazine (bound volumes from 1985 are in the stacks)

Relph, Edward C., The Modern Urban Landscape, Johns Hopkins University Press, HT166 .R347 1987

Urban history in the 1980s,” special issue of Journal of Architectural Education (1984-), Vol.41, #3, Spring, 1988 (PDF via JStor)

 

CONSTRUCTION & TECHNOLOGY IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1980s

Architectural Technology magazine (bound volumes from 1983-6 are in the stacks)

Allen, Edward, Fundamentals of Building Construction, 2nd edition, Wiley, TH145.A4 1990

Beylerian, George M., Mondo Materialis: materials and ideas for the future, H.N. Abrams, NA680.M59 1990

Brand, Stewart, The Media Lab: inventing the future at MIT, Penguin Books, T171.M49B74 1988

Builder magazine (bound volumes from 1982 are in the stacks)

Custom Builder magazine (bound volumes from 1981-9 are in the stacks)

Engineering News Record magazine.

 

DECONSTRUCTIONISTS IN THE 1980s—1990s

Bédard, Jean-François, Cities of artificial excavation: the work of Peter Eisenman, 1978-1988, Canadian Centre for Architecture; Rizzoli International, NA737.E33 A4 1994

Brunette, Peter, Deconstruction and the visual arts, Cambridge University Press, N71.D43 1994

Peter Eisenman, Eisenman inside out: selected writings, 1963-1988, Yale University Press, Office-NA737.E33 A35 2004

Johnson, Philip & Mark Wigley, Deconstructivist architecture, Little, Brown, NA682.D43J6 1988

Koolhaas, Rem, Delirious New York: a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan, Monacelli Press, NA735.N5 K66 1994

Libeskind, Daniel, Countersign, Rizzoli, NA2707.L53 A4 1992

Papadakis, Andreas, Deconstruction: omnibus volume, Academy Editions, N6490 .D377 1989

Wigley, Mark, The architecture of deconstruction: Derrida's haunt, MIT Press, NA682.D43 W54 1993

Woods, Lebbeus, Radical reconstruction, Princeton Architectural Press, Office-NA2543.S6 W665 1997

1990s IN GENERAL

 “The P/A Design Awards,” an annual feature in the January issue of Progressive Architecture magazine, 1991-5. After 1995, the Awards appeared in Architecture magazine: May 1996, January 1997, and April 1998-2000.

 

AESTHETICS, THEORY & PRACTICE IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1990s

Brand, Stewart, How buildings learn: what happens after they're built, Viking, NA2542.4.B73 1994

Chase, John, “The role of consumerism in American architecture,” Journal of Architectural Education, August 1991, p.211-224 (PDF via JStor)

Colomina, Beatriz (editor), Sexuality & space, Princeton Architectural Press, NX650.S8S48 1992

Cuff, Dana, Architecture: the story of practice, MIT Press, NA1996.C84 1991

Dutton, Thomas A., Reconstructing architecture: critical discourses and social practices, University of Minnesota Press, NA1996 .R33 1996 (Also available via Ebook Central )

Friedman, Alice T., “The way you do the things you do: writing the history of houses and housing,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 1999, p.406-413 (PDF via JStor)

Huxtable, Ada Louise, Unreal America: architecture and illusion, New Press, NA712.H88 1993

Jameson, Fredric, Postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of late capitalism, Duke University Press, PN98.P67J33 1991

Kahn, Andrea, Drawing/building/text: essays in architectural theory, Princeton Architectural Press, NA2500 .D7 1991

Kolb, David, Postmodern sophistications: philosophy, architecture, and tradition, University of Chicago Press, BH301.P69 K64 1990

Leach, Neil, Rethinking architecture: a reader in cultural theory, Routledge, NA2500 .R46 1997

Saunders, William S. (editor), Reflections on architectural practices in the nineties, Princeton University Press, NA1996 .R34 1996

Tulane papers: the politics of contemporary architectural discourse,” special issue of Assemblage, August 1995 (PDF via JStor)

Vidler, Anthony, The architectural uncanny: essays in the modern unhomely, MIT Press, PN56.A73 V53 1992

Visual Culture,” October, Vol.77, 1996 (Theme issue)

 

BUILDING TYPES IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1990s

"The American Campus," Architectural Record, February 2000 (Theme issue)

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

“The City in the Clouds,” Domus, September 2001 (Theme issue)

New American Library Design,” Journal of Architectural Education,” February 1994 (Theme issue via JStor)

"Reaching for the Skies," Architectural Design, July/August 1995 (Theme issue)

Riley, Terence, Tall buildings, Museum of Modern Art, NA6230 .N67 2003

 

RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1990s

Golin, Alexander, The new American town house, Rizzoli, NA7208 .G67 1999

"On the House," Assemblage, no. 24, 1994 (Theme issue)

"Housing," Architecture, July 1990 (Theme issue)

"Housing and Community," Harvard Design Magazine, Summer 1999 (Theme issue)

"Housing California," Architecture, January 1993 (Theme issue)

"Housing Reforms," Architecture, August 1997 (Theme issue)

"Multifamily Housing," Architectural Record, July 1990 (Building types study)

“Record Houses,” an annual feature of the Mid-April issue of Architectural Record, 1991-2000.

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

"Social Housing," Architectural Record, July 1992 (Building types study)

 

CITIES & PLANNING IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1990s

Deutsche, Rosalyn, Evictions: art and spatial politics, MIT Press, NA9053.S6 D48 1996

Garreau, Joel, Edge City, Anchor Books, HT334.U5G37 1992

Gottdiener, Mark, The Social Production of Urban Space, 2nd ed., University of Texas Press, HT334.U5G66 1994

Kunstler, James Howard, Home from Nowhere, Simon & Schuster, HT167.K85 1996

Lang, Peter & Tam Miller, Suburban Discipline, Princeton Architectural Press, HT351.S87 1997 (Also available via Ebook Central)

Mitchell, William J., City of bits: space, place, and the Infobahn, MIT Press, TK5105.5.M57 1995

Rowe, Peter G., Making a Middle Landscape, MIT Press, HT352.U6R68 1991

Sassen, Saskia, Global City: New York, London, Tokyo, Princeton University Press, HG184.N5S27 1991 (Also available via Ebook Central)

Sorkin, Michael, Variations on a theme park: the new American city and the end of public space, Hill and Wang, HT123.V37 1992

"Sprawl," Design Quarterly, no. 164, 1995 (Theme issue)

Violence, Space,” Assemblage, April 1993 (Theme issue via JStor)

Waldie, D.J., Holy land: a suburban memoir, W. W. Norton, F869.L217W35 1996

 

CONSTRUCTION & TECHNOLOGY IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1990s

Engineering News Record magazine.

Addleson, Lyall, Performance of Materials in Buildings, Butterworth-Heinemann, TA407.A443 1991

Beckmann, John (editor), The virtual dimension: architecture, representation and crash culture, Princeton Architectural Press, NA2543 .T3 V57 1998

Buck-Morss, Susan, Ground control: technology and utopia, Black Dog Publications, N72.T4B83 1997

Daniels, Klaus, Low-tech light-tech high-tech: building in the information age, Birkhäuser, NA2543.T43D36 1998

Frechette, Leon A., Build smarter with alternative materials, Craftsman Book Company, TA403.8 .F73 1999

Hornbostel, Caleb, Construction Materials, 2nd ed., Wiley, TA403.H5 1991

Penley, Constance & Andrew Ross (editors), Technoculture, University of Minnesota Press, T14.5.T438 1991

Wired magazine (bound volumes from 1993 are in the stacks)

 

ENVIRONMENTALISM IN THE 1990s

"The Architecture of Ecology," Architectural Design, January/February 1997 (Theme issue)

Bryson, Reid A., “Environment, environmentalists, and global change: a skeptic's evaluation,” New Literary History, Vol. 24, #4, 1993, p.783-795 (PDF via JStor)

"Eco-Chic: the unfashionability of ecological design," Design Book Review, #20, 1991 (Theme issue)

Gablik, Suzi, “The Ecological Imperative,” Art Journal, Vol. 51, #2, 1992, p.49-51 (Art and Ecology theme issue; PDF via JStor)

"Green Architecture," Architectural Review, September 1990 (Theme issue)

Jones, David Lloyd, Architecture and the environment: bioclimatic building design, Overlook Press, NA2542.35 .J65 1998

Refuse: good everyday design from reused and recycled materials, Arango Design Foundation, NK1390.A73 1990

Slessor, Catherine, Eco-tech: sustainable architecture and high technology, Thames & Hudson, NA2542.35.E26 1997

Watson, Donald, “Architecture, Technology, and Environment,” Journal of Architectural Education (1984-), November 1997, p.119-126 (PDF via JStor)

Yeang, Ken, The green skyscraper: the basis for designing sustainable intensive buildings, Prestel, NA6230.Y43 1999

Yeang, Ken, Designing with Nature: the ecological basis for architectural design, Mc-Graw Hill, NA2542.35.Y43 1995

 

GLOBALIZATION IN THE 1990s

Beck, Ulrich, What is globalization?, Polity Press, HF1359.B413 2000

Castells, Manuel, The rise of the network society / information age, Blackwell, HC79.I55C373 1996  Vol.1

"Construire à l'étranger," Techniques & Architecture, February-March 1997 (Special issue) (Text in French and English)

"Critical Internationalism," Casabella, January-February 1996 (Special issue)

Ibelings, Hans, Supermodernism: architecture in the age of globalization, NAi Publishers, NA682.P67I23 1998

Li, Victor, “What's in a name? Questioning globalization,” Cultural Critique, #45, 2000, p.1-39 (PDF via JStor)

Natkin, Kenneth H., "Negotiating international contracts," Architecture, September 1993, p.141-143

"Succeeding in a volatile world," Architectural Record, July 1996 (Special issue)

"Why the Americans get the job," Interiors, September 1992 (Special issue)

"Working abroad," Architecture, Spring 1993 (Special issue)

 

NEW URBANISM IN THE 1990s

Congress for the New Urbanism

Duany, Andres & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Towns and Townmaking Principles, Harvard University Graduate School of Design; Rizzoli, NA9051.D8 1991

Hall, Denise D., “Community in the New Urbanism: design vision and symbolic crusade,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Vol.9, #2, 1998, p.23-36 (PDF via JStor)

Kates, Ronald, “New Urbanism meets cinematic fantasyland: Seaside, “The Truman Show”, and new utopias,” Studies in Popular Culture, October 2000, p.93-98 (PDF via JStor)

Katz, Peter, New Urbanism: toward and architecture of community, McGraw-Hill, NA2542.4.K38 1994

Kelbaugh, Doug, “The New Urbanism,” Journal of Architectural Education, November 1997, p.142-144 (PDF via JStor)

Smith, Neil, “Which New Urbanism? The revanchist '90s,” Perspecta, Vol.30, 1999, p.98-105 (PDF via JStor)

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