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Architectures of World Modernism 1880-1980: General resources

Recommended resources modernist design, focused on Europe and the USA but providing location info for print resources and links for digital resources on modernism as a global phenomenon.

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DoCoMoMo International (International committee for the documentation & conservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the modern movement)

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Arnason, H.H., History of modern art: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, 4th ed., Abrams, N6490.A713 1998

Banham, Reyner, Age of the masters: a personal view of modern architecture, Harper & Row, NA680.B248 1975

Conrads, Ulrich, Programs and manifestoes on 20th-century architecture, MIT Press, NA680.C6213 1970

Curtis, William J.R., Modern architecture since 1900, 3rd ed., Prentice Hall, NA680.C87 1996

Grospierre, Nicolas, Modern forms: a subjective atlas of 20th-century architecture, Prestel, TR659 .G767 2016

Harrison, Charles, et al., Art in theory 1900-1990, Blackwell, N6450.A7167 1992

Huyssen, Andreas, "Geographies of modernism in a globalizing world," New German Critique, #100, 2007, p. 189-207 (PDF via Jstor)

Ibelings, Hans, Modern architecture : a planetary warming history, The Architecture Observer, NA2542.35 I24 2023

Koshalek, Richard, et al., At the end of the century: one hundred years of architecture, MOCA, NA680.A9 1998

Lawrence, Amanda Reeser & Ana Miljački (editors), Terms of appropriation: modern architecture and global exchange, Routledge, NA680 .T366 2018

Levenson, Michael H., The Cambridge companion to modernism, Cambridge University Press, PN56.M54C36 1999

Lim, William S. W. & Jiat-Hwee Chang (editors), Non West modernist past: on architecture & modernities, World Scientific Pub., NA682.M66 N663 2011

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Pioneers of modern design, Penguin Books, N6450.P4 1964

Sharr, Adam, Modern architecture: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, NA680 .S523 2018

Wright, Gwendolyn, "Building global modernisms," Grey Room, #7, 2002, p. 125-134 (PDF via Jstor)

Anderson. Sean, “Proving ground [Asmara, Eritrea],” Grey Room, #27, Spring 2007. p. 82-103 (PDF via Jstor)

Denison, Edward, Asmara: Africa's secret modernist city, Merrell, NA1591.6.E652A83 2007

Gordon, April (editor) Understanding contemporary Africa, Rienner Publishers, DT30.5.U536 2007

Herz, Manuel (editor), African modernism: the architecture of independence: Ghana, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia, Park Books, NA1580 .A37 2015

Hess, Janet Berry, Art and architecture in postcolonial Africa, McFarland & Co., N72.N38H47 2006

Judin, Hilton, Architecture, state modernism and cultural nationalism in the apartheid capital, Routledge, NA1592.5.A63 J83 2020

Kultermann, Udo, New directions in African architecture, Braziller, NA1580.K8213 [1969]

Modern Architecture in East Africa around Independence (proceedings of a 2005 conference in Dar es Salaam, HTML full text via ArchNet)

Morton, P. A., Hybrid modernities: architecture and representation at the 1931 Colonial exposition, MIT Press, NA6750.P4E956 2000

Turner, Christopher, Tropical modernism : architecture and independence, V&A Publishing, NA2542.T7 T87 2024

Art Deco & Modernism Society (Based in Melbourne)

Fung Associates, Hawai'i modernism context study, Historic Hawaii Foundation, 2011 (PDF via funghawaii.com)

Gaudin, Mary, Down the long driveway, you'll see it, Mary Gaudin & Matthew Arnold, TR659.G383 2014 (Modernist homes in New Zealand)

Goad, Philip, New directions in tropical Asian architecture, Tuttle, NA1462.G63 2005

Jahn, Graham, Contemporary Australian architecture, Gordon and Breach Arts International, NA1600.2.J35 1994

“Modern Australian Architecture,” Process Architecture, NA6.P94 #22

Zellner, Peter, Pacific edge: contemporary architecture on the Pacific Rim, Rizzoli, NA1559.7.A46 1998

Brillembourg, Carlos, Latin American architecture, 1929-1960: contemporary reflections, Monacelli Press, NA702.5.L38 2004

Bergdoll, Barry, Latin America in construction: architecture 1955-1980, Museum of Modern Art, NA702.5.B47x 2015

Burain, Edward R., Modernity and the architecture of Mexico, University of Texas Press, NA755.B87 1997

Carranza, Luis E., et al., Modern architecture in Latin America: art, technology, and utopia, University of Texas Press, NA702.5.C37 2015 (also available as ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Cavalcanti, Lauro, When Brazil was modern: guide to architecture, 1928-1960, Princeton Architectural Press, NA855.5.M63C38 2003

Cavalcanti, Lauro & Marta Caldeira, "The role of modernists in the establishment of Brazilian cultural heritage," Future Anterior, Vol.6, #2, 2009, p.14-31 (PDF via Jstor)

Del Real, Patricio & Helen Gyger, Latin American modern architectures: ambiguous territories, Routledge, NA702.5.L39 2013

Deupi, Victor, Cuban modernism : mid-century architecture 1940-1970, Birkhäuser, NA803 .D48 2021

Eggener, Keith, “Postwar modernism in Mexico: Luis Barragán's Jardines del Pedregal and the international discourse on architecture and place,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 1999, p. 122-145 (PDF via Jstor)

Expressions of Modernity in Latin American Architecture,” Journal of Architectural Education, May 2002 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)

Fraser, Valerie, Building the new world: studies in the modern architecture of Latin America, 1930-1960, Verso, NA702.5.F73 2000

Hernández, Felipe, Transculturation: cities, spaces and architectures in Latin America, Rodopi, NA2543.S6T73 2005

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, Latin American architecture since 1945, Museum of Modern Art, NA702.H5 [1955]

Hyde, Timothy, Constitutional modernism : architecture and civil society in Cuba, 1933-1959, University of Minnesota Press, NA2543.S6 H93 2012

Lara, Fernando Luiz, "One step back, two steps forward: the maneuvering of Brazilian avant-garde," Journal of Architectural Education, #4, 2002, p. 211-219 (PDF via Jstor)

O'Rourke, Kathryn E., "Mies and Bacardi: mixing modernism, c.1960," Journal of Architectural Education, October 2012, p.57-71 (PDF via Jstor)

Quesado Deckker, Zilah, Brazil built: the architecture of the modern movement in Brazil, Spon, NA855.5.M63Q47 2001

Rodríguez, Eduardo Luis, The Havana Guide: modern architecture 1925-1965, Princeton Architectural Press, NA804.H3R63 1999

Ashihara, Yoshinobu, The hidden order: Tokyo through the twentieth century, Kodansha International, NA1557.T6A84 1989

Gandelsonas, Mario, Shanghai reflections: architecture, urbanism, and the search for an alternative modernity, Princeton Architectural Press, NA1547.S5G36 2002

Koditek, Walter, Hong Kong modern : architecture of the 1950s-1970s, Apsara Books; DOM publishers, NA1547.H6 K63 2023

Lee, Leo Ou-fan, Shanghai modern: the flowering of a new urban culture in China, 1930-1945, Harvard University Press, DS796.S25L43 1999

Reynolds, Jonathan M., Maekawa Kunio and the emergence of Japanese modernist architecture, University of California Press, NA1555.R49 2001

Rowe, Peter G., Shanghai: architecture and urbanism for modern China, Prestel, NA1545.S53 2004

Shi, Yaohua, "Reconstructing modernism: the shifting narratives of Chinese modernist architecture," Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, #1, 2006, p. 30-84 (PDF via Jstor)

Stewart, David B., The Making of a modern Japanese architecture: 1868 to the present, Kodansha International, NA1554.5.S74 1987

Arbid, George & Philipp Oswalt (editors), Designing modernity : architecture in the Arab world, 1945-1973, Jovis, NA1465.3 .D47 2022

Babaie, Sussan, "Voices of authority: locating the "modern" in "Islamic" arts," Getty Research Journal , #3, 2011, p. 133-149 (PDF via Jstor)

Bani-Masoud, Amir, Contemporary architecture in Iran : from 1925 to the present, [independently published], NA1480 .B36 2021

Camacho, Ricardo, et al (editors), Essays, arguements & interviews on Modern architecture Kuwait, Niggli, NA1472.5 .E87 2018

Camacho, Ricardo, et al, Pan-Arab Modernism 1968-2018 : the history of architectural practice in the Middle East, Actar, NA1465.3 .C36 2021 (eBook also available via Proquest Ebook Central)

Confurius, Gerrit, “Tel Aviv and the transportability of the Modern Movement,” Daidalos, #54, 1994, p. 52-61

Efrat, Zvi, The object of Zionism: architecture of Isreal, Spector Books, NA1477 .E37 2018

El-Solh, Nayla, The PM's Beirut mansion : if walls could speak, Unicorn Publishing, NA7515.L4 L42 2021

Fiedler, Jeannine, Social utopias of the twenties: Bauhaus, Kibbutz, and the dream of the new man, Müller + Busmann Press, N332.G33B4795 1995

Gitler, Inbal Ben-Asher & Anat Geva, Israel as a modern architectural experimental lab, 1948-1978, Intellect, NA1477 .I87 2020

Isenstadt, Sandy & Kishwar Rizvi (editors), Modernism and the Middle East: architecture and politics in the twentieth century, University of Washington Press, 2011 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Kamp-Bandau, Irmel, Tel Aviv modern architecture, 1930-1939, Wasmuth, NA1478.T45K3613 1994

Mimar magazine, published 1981-1992, covered architecture in the Islamic world (full text via ArchNet)

Nitzan-Shiftan, Alona, "Contested Zionism—alternative modernism: Erich Mendelsohn and the Tel Aviv Chug in Mandate Palestine," Architectural History, 1996, p. 147-180 (PDF via Jstor)

Stanek, Lukasz, Architecture in global socialism : Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War, Princeton University Press, NA680 .S79 2020

Stephan, Regina (editor), More than Bauhaus : the architecture of the White City Tel Aviv, Spurbuchverlag, NA1478.T45 M67 2019

ARCH+ (editors), Contested modernities: postcolonial architecture and the construction of identities in Southeast Asia, ARCH+; Birkhauser, NA3 .A68 2021

Bishop, Ryan, et al (editors), Postcolonial urbanism : Southeast Asian cities and global processes, Taylor & Francis Group, 2003 (e-book via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Chua, Lawrence, Bangkok utopia : modern architecture and Buddhist felicities, 1910-1973, University of Hawai'i Press, HT169.T52 B3634 2021

D'Alfonso, Maddalena, Warm modernity: Indian architecture : building democracy, Silvana Editoriale, NA1504 .W37 2016

Desai, Madhavi, Women architects and modernism in India : narratives and contemporary practices, Routledge, NA1997 .D47 2019

Gast, Klaus-Peter, Modern traditions: contemporary architecture in India, Birkhäuser, 2007 (ebook via SpringerLink)

Hosagrahar, Jyoti, "South Asia: looking back, moving ahead-history and modernization," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, #3, 2002, p. 355-369 (PDF via Jstor)

Jazeel, Tariq, “Tropical Modernism/Environmental Nationalism: The Politics of Built Space in Postcolonial Sri Lanka,” University College London [2017]

Phú Vinh, Phòam, Poetic significance : Sài Gòn mid-century modernist architecture, Architecture Vietnam Books, NA1514.2.H6 P48 2021

Robson, David G., Beyond Bawa: modern masterworks of monsoon Asia, Thames & Hudson, NA1511 .R63 2014

Schenck, Mel, Southern Vietnamese modernist architecture : mid-century vernacular modernism, Architecture Vietnam Books, NA1513 .S35 S6 2020

SEAARC Symposium, Southeast Asia's modern architecture : questions of translation, epistemology, and power, National University of Singapore, NA1511 .S43 2015

Stierli, Martino, et al (editors), The project of independence : architectures of decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985, The Museum of Modern Art, NA1500 .P765 2022

Tillotson, Giles, The Tradition of Indian Architecture: continuity, controversy, and change since 1850, Yale University Press, NA1503.T55 1989

Turner, Christopher, Tropical modernism : architecture and independence, V&A Publishing, NA2542.T7 T87 2024

Véret, Jean-Louis, et al., Architectures en Inde, Electa Moniteur, NA1501.A87 1985

Wangroongaroona, Chadanuch, Thailand two decades of building design 1968-1989, Creative Print, NA1521.T43 1989

Amazing Archigram: a supplement,” Perspecta, v. 11, 1967, p. 131-154 (PDF via Jstor)

The Archigram Archival Project (University of Westminster online archive of over 10,000 digitized documents)

Banham, Reyner, "Archigram," Oxford Art Online

Cook, Peter, Archigram, Princeton Architectural Press, NA680.A68 1999

Sadler, Simon, "The Brutal birth of Archigram," Twentieth Century Architecture, 2002, p. 120-128 (PDF via Jstor)

Whiteley, Nigel, ”Toward a throw-away culture,” Oxford Art Journal, #2, 1987, p. 3-27 (PDF via Jstor)

Art Deco Society Los Angeles (part of the International Coalition of Art Deco Societies)

Benton, Charlotte, et al., Art deco 1910-1939, V&A Publications, N6494.A7 A622 2003

Dell, Simon, “The Consumer and the making of the Exposition Internationale,” Journal of Design History, # 4, 1999, p. 311-325 (PDF via Jstor)

Duncan, Alastair, "Art deco lighting," The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, #1, 1986, p. 20-31 (PDF via Jstor)

Dyer, Geoff, "The Despair of art deco," The Threepenny Review , #89, 2002, p. 5-6 (PDF via Jstor)

Gebhard, David & Harriette von Breton, Los Angeles in the Thirties, Peregrine Smith, NA735.L55G42 1989

Hillier, Bevis, Art Deco Style, Phaidon, N6494.A7H557 1997

Ivers, Louise H, "The Evolution of modern architecture in Long Beach," Southern California Quarterly, #3, 1986, p. 257-291 (PDF via Jstor)

Striner, Richard, "Art deco: polemics and synthesis," Winterthur Portfolio, #1, 1990, p. 21-34 (PDF via Jstor)

Tise, Suzanne, "Art deco," Oxford Art Online

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

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

Windover, Michael, "Exchanging looks: ‘art dekho’ movie theatres in Bombay," Architectural History, 2009, p. 201-232 (PDF via Jstor)

De Riquer, Borja, Modernismo: architecture and design in Catalonia, Monacelli Press, NX562.B37M6313 2003Escritt, Stephen, Art & Ideas: Art nouveau, Phaidon, N6465.A7 E737 2000

Lavallée, Michèle, "Art nouveau," Oxford Art Online

Makela, Maria, et al., "Secession," Oxford Art Online

Murrell, Kathleen Berton, Moscow art nouveau, Philip Wilson Publishers, NA1188.5.A7M87 1997

Tahara, Keiichi, Art Nouveau architecture, Universe, N6465.A7T22 2000

Teyssot, Georges, "The Wave: Walter Benjamin's lost essay on Jugendstil," AA Files , #61, 2010, p. 23-37 (PDF via Jstor)

Theiding, Kara Olsen, “Anxieties of influence: British responses to art nouveau, 1900-04,” Journal of Design History, #3, 2006, p. 215-231 (PDF via Jstor)

Varnedoe, Kirk, et al., Vienna 1900, Museum of Modern Art, N6810.V5V37 1986

(Search also for Arte joven, Glasgow style, JugendstilLes XXModernismeSezessionstilStile LibertyStyle MétroStyle 1900, Vienna Secession)

Bergdoll, Barry, et al., Bauhaus 1919-1933: workshops for modernity, Museum of Modern Art, N332.G33B42455 2009

Blümm, Anke & Martina Ullrich (editors), Haus am Horn: Bauhaus architecture in Weimar, Hirmer, NA7351.W37 H38 2019

Brejzek, Thea, et al. (editors), Bauhaus x IKEA : legacies of modernism, Uro Publications, HD9773.S84 B38 2022

Itten, Johannes, Design and form: the basic course at the Bauhaus and later, Van Nostrand Reinhold, N332.G33B44613 1975

James-​Chakraborty, Kathleen (Editor), Bauhaus culture: from Weimar to the Cold War, University of Minnesota Press, N332.G33B4263 2006

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

Schmitt, Erik, American Bauhaus : Saturday, March 7th, 1992, 9:30 A.M. - 4:00 P.M., Slanted Publishers UG, N6490 .S36 2022

Smith, T'Ai, "Limits of the tactile and the optical: Bauhaus fabric in the frame of photography," Grey Room, #25, 2006, p. 6-31 (PDF via Jstor)

Wick, Rainer K., "Bauhaus," Oxford Art Online

Wingler, Hans Maria, The Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago, MIT Press, N332.B38W513 [1969]

Banham, Reyner, "Brutalism," Oxford Art Online

Banham, Reyner, The New brutalism: ethic or aesthetic? Reinhold, NA680.B2463 [1966]

Chadwick, Peter, This Brutal world, Phaidon, NA682.B7C43 2016

Clement, Alexander, Brutalism: post-war British architecture, Crowood, NA682.B7C626 2011

Harwood, Elain, Space, hope, and brutalism: English architecture, 1945-1975, Yale University Press, NA968.H375 2015

May, Kyle, et al., Brutalism, Clog, NA682.B7B913 2013

McLeod, Virginia & Clare Churly (editors), Atlas of brutalist architecture, Phaidon, NA682.B7 A85 2018

Stirling, James, “The Functional tradition and expression,” Perspecta, #6, 1960, p. 88-97 (PDF via Jstor)

Addis, William, Building: 3000 years of design engineering and construction, Phaidon, Office-TH15.A33 2007

Building Technology Heritage Library (The Association for Preservation Technology’s collection of digitized “architectural trade catalogs, house plan books and technical building guides” via Archive.org)

Collins, Peter, Concrete: the vision of a new architecture, 2nd ed., McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Edgerton, David, The shock of the old: technology and global history since 1900, Oxford University Press, T20.E3275 2007

Forty, Adrian, Concrete and culture: a material history, Reaktion, NA4125.F67 2012

Frampton, Kenneth, Studies in tectonic culture: the poetics of construction in nineteenth and twentieth century architecture, MIT Press, NA642 .F72 1995

Francastel, Pierre, Art & technology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Zone Books, N72.T4F713 2000

Goodman, David C., The European cities and technology reader: industrial to post-industrial city, Routledge, T14.5.E955 1999

Jacobs, James A., Detached America: building houses in postwar suburbia, University of Virginia Press, HD7287.82.U6J33 2015

Jester, Thomas C., Twentieth century building materials, McGraw-Hill, TA403.6.T87 1995

Kawada, Tadaki, History of the modern suspension bridge: solving the dilemma between economy and stiffness, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

LePatner, Barry B., Broken buildings, busted budgets: how to fix America's trillion-dollar construction industry, University of Chicago Press, 2008 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Levin, Miriam R., et al., Urban modernity: cultural innovation in the second industrial revolution, MIT Press, 2010 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Schlager, Neil, When technology fails: significant technological disasters, accidents, and failures of the twentieth century, Gale Research, TA169.5.W44 1994

Scott, Felicity D., Architecture or techno-utopia : politics after modernism, MIT Press, NA712.S34 2007

Sebestyen, Gyula, Construction: craft to industry, Taylor & Francis, 2003 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Slaton, Amy E., Reinforced concrete and the modernization of American building, 1900-1930, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Wall, Christine, An architecture of parts: architects, building workers and industrialization in Britain 1940-1970, Routledge, NA2543.B84W34 2013

Bolotin, Norm, The World's Columbian Exposition: the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, University of Illinois Press, T500.B1B64 2002

Brooks, H. Allen, “The early work of the Prairie architects,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, #1, 1960, p. 2-10 (PDF via Jstor)

Brooks, H. Allen, The Prairie school, Norton, NA722.B7 [1976]

Colquhoun, Alan, “Organicism versus classicism: Chicago 1890-1910,” in Modern Architecture, Oxford University Press, 2002 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

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.C4C661964 [1973]

Garner, John S. (editor), The Midwest in American architecture, University of Illinois Press, NA722.M53 1991

Larson, Erik, The devil in the White City: murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America, Crown Publishers, HV6248.M8L37 2003

Levine, Neil, The architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, Princeton University Press, NA737.W7L46 1995

Lewis, Arnold, An early encounter with tomorrow: Europeans, Chicago's Loop, and the World's Columbian Exposition, University of Illinois Press, NA735.C4L49 1997

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

The Prairie School Review, 1965-1973 (published 1964-1976)

Sprague, Paul E., Guide to Frank Lloyd Wright & Prairie School architecture in Oak Park, 5th ed., NA725.O24S67 1986

Zukowsky, John (editor), Chicago architecture, 1872-1922: birth of a metropolis, Prestel, NA735.C4C375 1987

Zukowsky, John (editor), Chicago architecture and design, 1923-1993: reconfiguration of an American metropolis, Prestel, NA735.C4C376 1993

Weintraub, Alan, Frank Lloyd Wright: prairie houses, Rizzoli, NA737.W7H469 2006

Galpin, Christian & Anne Hublin, “A tradition in transition: Ali Tur in Guadeloupe, 1929-1937,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Vol.10, #2, 1999, p.21–32 (PDF via Jstor)

Hertz, John B., "Authenticity, colonialism, and the struggle with modernity," Journal of Architectural Education, May 2002, p.220-227 (PDF via Jstor)

Huppatz, D. J., “Jean Prouvé’s Maison Tropicale: the poetics of the colonial object,” Design Issues, Vol.26, #4, 2010, p.32–44 (PDF via Jstor)

Vletter, Martien de, "Tradition and modernity in the Netherlands East Indies" in The past in the present: architecture in Indonesia, edited by Peter J.M. Nas, NAi, NA1526 .P37 2006

Wright, Gwendolyn, “Tradition in the service of modernity: architecture and urbanism in French colonial policy, 1900-1930,” The Journal of Modern History, June 1987, p.291-316 (PDF via Jstor) 

Blau, Eve, et al., Architecture and cubism, MIT Press, NA958.5.C83A73 1997

Elderfield, John (Editor), Essays on assemblage, Museum of Modern Art, N6512.S79 1992 no. 2

Green, Christopher & John Musgrove, "Cubism," Oxford Art Online

Kachur, Lewis, "Collage," Oxford Art Online

Krauss, Rosalind E., The Picasso papers, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, N6853.P5K73 1998

Revising cubism,” Art Journal, Winter 1988 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)

Rubin, William, Picasso and Braque: pioneering cubism, Museum of Modern Art, N6853.P5A43 1989

Rubin, William, Picasso/Braque: a symposium, Museum of Modern Art, N6848.5.C82P5 1992

Steinberg, Leo, “What About Cubism?” section of “The Algerian Women,” in Other Criteria, Oxford University Press,N6490.S74 [1972]

Bock, Manfred et al., De Stijl, 1917-1931: visions of Utopia, Walker Art Center, N6948.5.S8S8 1982

Crimson, et al., Mart Stam's trousers: stories from behind the scenes of Dutch moral modernism, 010 Publishers, NA1148.C74 1999

Henkels, H., “De Stijl” and "Neo-plasticism,"Oxford Art Online

Mondrian, Piet, Natural reality and abstract reality: an essay in trialogue form, George Braziller, ND1482.R4M66 1995

Mondrian to Dutch design: 100 years of De Stijl” (links to a variety of 2017 centenary events in Holland)

Troy, Nancy J., The De Stijl environment, MIT Press, N6948.5.S8T7 1983

Van Doesburg, Theo, On European architecture: complete essays from Het Bouwbedrijf 1924-1931, Birkhäuser, NA958.D4413 1990

Brunette, Peter, Deconstruction and the Visual Arts: art, media, architecture, Cambridge University Press, N71.D43 1994

Carrier, David, "Deconstruction," Grove Art Online

Installation views of “Deconstructivist architecture, June 23-August 30, 1988, MOMA, in ArtStor

Johnson, Philip & Mark Wigley, Deconstructivist architecture, Museum of Modern Art, NA682.D43J6 1988

Lawlor, Leonard, “Jacques Derrida, Deconstruction,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Papadakis, Andreas, Deconstruction: omnibus volume, Rizzoli, N6490.D377 1989

Wigley, Mark, The architecture of deconstruction: Derrida's haunt, MIT Press, NA682.D43W54 1993

Brott, Simone, "Deleuze and ‘The Intercessors’," Log, #18, 2010, p. 135-151 (PDF via Jstor)

Grosz, Elizabeth, "Deleuze, theory, and space," Log , #1, 2003, p. 77-86 (PDF via Jstor)

Lynn, Greg, et al., Folding in architecture, Academy Editions, Office-NA2728.F63 2004

Marenko, Betti, et al., Deleuze and design, Edinburgh University Press, NK1505.D454 2015

Rajchman, John, The Deleuze connections, MIT Press, 2000 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Smith, Daniel, et al, “Gilles DeleuzeStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

West-Pavlov, Russell, Space in theory, Rodopi, 2009 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Kuenzli, Katherine M.,"Architecture, individualism, and nation: Henry Van De Velde's 1914 Werkbund Theater Building," The Art Bulletin, #2, 2012, p. 251-273 (PDF via Jstor)

Overy, Paul, "Visions of the future and the immediate past: The Werkbund Exhibition, Paris 1930," Journal of Design History, #4, 2004, p. 337-357 (PDF via Jstor)

Röder, Sabine, & Fiona Elliott, "Moderne Baukunst 1900-14: The architectural collection of the Deutscher Werkbund," The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850 - the Present, #22, 1998, p. 4-17 (PDF via Jstor)

Schwartz, Frederic J., The Werkbund: design theory and mass culture before the First World War, Yale University Press, NK951.S375 1996

Stratigakos, Despina, “Women and the Werkbund: gender politics and German design reform, 1907-14,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 2003, p. 490-511 (PDF via Jstor)

Werkbund” in ArtStor

Whyte, Iain Boyd, "Deutscher Werkbund," Oxford Art Online

Barber, Daniel A., Modern architecture and climate : design before air conditioning, Princeton University Press, NA2541 .B37 2020

Bergman, David, Sustainable design: a critical guide for architects and interior, lighting, and environmental designers, Princeton Architectural Press, 2012 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Brand, Stewart, The Whole Earth epilog, Penguin Books, TS199.W49 1974

Brulle, Robert J., Agency, democracy and nature: the U.S environmental movement from a critical theory perspective, MIT Press, 2000 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Callenbach, Ernest, Ecotopia: the notebooks and reports of William Weston, Banyan Tree Books, PS3553.A424E35 [1975]

Crosbie, Michael J., Green architecture: a guide to sustainable design, Rockport, NA2542.3.C76 1994

Design, Ecology, Technology,” Journal of Design History, #3, 1993 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)

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

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

Hosey, Lance, The Shape of green: aesthetics, ecology, and design, Island Press, 2012 (ebook from ProQuest Ebrary)

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

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

McDonough, William, Cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make things, North Point Press, TD794.5.M395 2002

McHarg, Ian, Design with nature, John Wiley, HC110.E5M394 1992 (originally published 1969)

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Colquhoun, Alan, “Return to order: Le Corbusier and modern architecture in France 1920-35,” in Modern Architecture, Oxford University Press,, 2002 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Eliel, Carol S., et al., L'Esprit nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918-1925, LACMA, N6848.5.P8 E44 2001

L'Esprit nouveau (Reprint of the original magazine, 1920-1925; Shelved with the bound magazines)

Gronberg, Tag, “Speaking volumes: The Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau,” Oxford Art Journal, #2, 1992, p. 58-69 (PDF via Jstor)

Benson, Timothy O., Expressionist Utopias, LACMA, N6868.5.E9B46 1993

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Ghirardo, Diane, “Italian Architects and fascist politics: an evaluation of the rationalist's role in regime building,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, May, 1980, p. 109-127 (PDF via Jstor)

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Rüedi, Katerina, et al., Desiring practices: architecture, gender, and the interdisciplinary, Black Dog Press, NA2543.W65D47 1996

Tickner, Lisa, “Feminism and art,” Oxford Art Online

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Crampton, Jeremy W., “Space, Territory, Geography,” in Christopher Falzon, et al., A Companion to Foucault, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Fontana-Giusti, Gordana, Foucault for architects, Routledge, B2430.F724 F584 2013

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Gutting, Gary, Foucault: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, 2005 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

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Rajchman, John, "Foucault's art of seeing," October , #44, p. 1988, p. 89-117 (PDF via Jstor)

Wright, Gwendolyn, "Europeans, Americans, and the meanings of space," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, #4, 2005, p. 436-440 (PDF via Jstor)

[1965 Functionalism debate] featuring Theodor W. Adorno’s “Functionalism today,” Ernst Bloch’s “Formative education, engineering form, ornament,” and two commentaries, Oppositions, #17, 1979

Anderson, Stanford, "The Fiction of function," Assemblage, #2, 1987, p. 19-31 (PDF via Jstor)

Bergdoll, Barry, et al., Home Delivery: fabricating the modern dwelling, Museum of Modern Art, NA7145.H66 2008

Biggs, The Rational factory: architecture, technology, and work in America's age of mass production, Johns Hopkins University Press, TS178.B54 1996

Cupers, Kenny (editor), Use matters: an alternative history of architecture, Routledge, NA2543.S6U84 2013

Jones, Peter Blundell, "Functionalism," Oxford Art Online

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Sharp, Dennis, The Rationalists: theory and design in the modern movement, Architectural Press, NA680.R38 1979

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Apollonio, Umbro, Futurist Manifestos, Viking Press, NX600.F8A6513 1973

Banham, Reyner, Theory and design in the first machine age, Praeger, NA680.B25 1980

Coen, Ester & John Musgrove, "Futurism," Oxford Art Online

Crispoliti, Enrico, Architettura futurista: attraverso l'architettura futurista, Galleria Fonte d'Abisso, NA1118.5.F87A7 1984

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Greene, Vivien, et al., Italian Futurism 1909-1944: reconstructing the universe, Guggenheim Museum, N6918.5.F8I85 2014

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Lim, William S.W. & Jiat-Hwee Chan, Non West modernist past : on architecture & modernities, World Scientific Pub., NA682.M66 N663 2011

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Prakash, Vikramaditya, et al (editors), Rethinking global modernism : architectural historiography and the postcolonial, Routledge, NA682.M63 R48 2022

Rose, Sam, Art and form : from Roger Fry to global modernism, Penn State University Press, 2019 (ebook available via Proquest Ebook Central)

Till, Jeremy, "Here, there and north of nowhere," Building Material, Spring 2009, #18, p.13-18 (PDF via JStor)

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“British High-Tech,” Architectural Review, July 1983 (Theme issue)

“High-tech design,” Progressive architecture, July 1978 (Theme issue)

Kron, Joan & Suzanne Slesin, High-tech: the industrial style and source book for the home, Crown Publishers, NK2115.5.I55K76 1978

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“Sci-fi architecture,” Architectural Design, March/April 1999 (Theme issue)

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Mumford, Eric Paul, The CIAM discourse on urbanism, 1928-1960, MIT Press, NA680.I475M86 2000

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Arnold, Amy L. & Brian D. Conway (editors), Michigan modern : design that shaped America, Gibbs Smith, NK1410.M5 M53 2016

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In the late 1960s Braziller published a series of regional surveys titled, New Directions in …

… African architecture (NA1580.K8213 [1969])

… American architecture (NA712.S7 [1969])

… British architecture (NA968.L3 [1968])

… German architecture (NA1068.F413 [1968])

… Italian architecture (NA1118.G6813 [1968])

… Japanese architecture (NA1555 .B6 [1968])

… Latin American architecture (NA702.B77 [1969])

… Swiss architecture (NA1348.B313 [1969])

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ARCH+ (editors), Contested modernities: postcolonial architecture and the construction of identities in Southeast Asia, ARCH+; Birkhauser, NA3 .A68 2021

Bishop, Ryan, et al (editors), Postcolonial urbanism : Southeast Asian cities and global processes, Taylor & Francis Group, 2003 (e-book via ProQuest Ebook Central)

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Lavin, Sylvia, Architecture itself and other postmodernization effects, Canadian Centre for Architecture, NA682.P67 L38 2020

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Portoghesi, Paolo, Postmodern, the architecture of the post-industrial society, Rizzoli, NA682.P67P67513 1983

Radice, Barbara, Memphis: research, experiences, results, failures, and successes of new design, Rizzoli, NK1396.M46R3213 1995

Rifkind, David, "Post-modernism: critique and reaction," in A critical history of contemporary architecture: 1960-2010, Elie G. Haddad & D. Rifkind (editors), Ashgate, NA680 .C758 2014, p.31-50 (ebook also available via Proquest Ebook Central)

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

Canizaro, Vincent B. (editor), Architectural regionalism: collected writings on place, identity, modernity, and tradition, Princeton Architectural Press, NA682.R44 A73 2007 (also available via ebook)

Chang, Jiat-Hwee, "Race and tropical architecture: the climate of decolonization and "Malayanization," in Race and modern architecture: a critical history from the enlightenment to the present, edited by Irene Cheng, et al, University of Pittsburgh Press, NA2543.R37 R336 2020 (ebook also available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

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Lu, Duanfang (editor), Third world modernism : architecture, development and identity, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010, (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Pieris, Anoma, Architecture and nationalism in Sri Lanka: the trouser under the cloth, Routledge, 2013 (e-book via Proquest Ebook Central) 

Scriver, Peter & Amit Srivastava, "Nation building: architecture in the service of the postcolonial state, 1947-1960s" in, India : Modern Architectures in History, Reaktion Books, Limited, 2016 (e-book via Proquest Ebook Central)

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Dobbins, Michael, et al., "The Achievement of Finnish architecture: social responsibility and architectural integrity," Perspecta , #8, 1963, p. 3-36 (PDF via Jstor)

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Postiglione, Gennaro, et al., Funzionalismo norvegese: Oslo 1927-1940, Officina, NA1270.F85 1996

Selkurt, Claire, "New classicism: design of the 1920s in Denmark," The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, #4, 1987, p. 16-29 (PDF via Jstor)

Smith, G. E. Kidder, Sweden builds, Reinhold, NA1288 .S6 1957

Certeau, Michel de, The practice of everyday life, University of California Press, HN8.C431 1984

Constant, The activist drawing: retracing situationist architectures from Constant's New Babylon to beyond, MIT Press, Office-NA2707.C63A83 2001

Coverley, Merlin, Psychogeography, Oldcastle Books, 2010 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Debord, Guy, Society of the spectacle, Zone Books, HM291.D413 1993

Guy Debord and the Internationale Situationniste,” October, #79, Winter 1997 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)

Kurczynski, Karen, "Situationism," Oxford Art Online

Lefebvre, Henri, The Production of space, Blackwell, BD621.L4813 1991

Lefebvre, Henri, Writings on Cities, Blackwell, HT153.L345 1996

Situationist International text library at nothingness.org

Stracey, Frances, Constructed situations: a new history of the Situationist International, Pluto Press, 2014 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Sussman, Elizabeth, et al., On the passage of a few people through a rather brief moment in time : the Situationist International, 1957-1972, MIT Press, NX542.O5 1989

Barron, Stephanie, The Avant-garde in Russia, 1910-1930: new perspectives, LACMA, NX556.A1A93 [1980]

Cohen, Jean-Louis, "Preserving modernism: a Russian exception?Future Anterior, #1, 2008, p. x-xvi (PDF via Jstor)

Gan, Aleksei, Constructivism, Editorial Tenov, N6988.5.C64G3513 2013 (first published 1922)

Ginzburg, Moisei, Style and epoch, MIT Press, NA2543.H55G5313 1982

The Great Utopia: the Russian and Soviet avant-garde 1915-1932, Guggenheim Museum, N6988.G7413 1992

Ioffe, Dennis G., The Russian avant-garde and radical modernism: an introductory reader, Academic Studies Press, 2012 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Lodder, Christina, "Constructivism," & "Vkhutemas," Oxford Art Online

Lodder, Christina, et al., Utopian reality: reconstructing culture in revolutionary Russia and beyond, Brill, 2013 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Margolin, Victor, The Struggle for utopia, University of Chicago Press, N6494.M64M36 1997

Milner, John, "Suprematism," Oxford Art Online

Pare, Richard, The lost vanguard: Russian modernist architecture 1922-1932, Monacelli Press, NA1188 .P37 2007

Russian/Soviet Theme Issue,” The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, #5, Summer 1987 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)

Åman, Anders, Architecture and ideology in Eastern Europe during the Stalin era, MIT Press, NA958.A4713 1992

Anderson, Richard, "USA/USSR: architecture and war," Grey Room, #34, 2009, p. 80-103 (PDF via Jstor)

Banks, Miranda, Aesthetic arsenal: socialist realism under Stalin, P.S. 1 Museum, N6988.A33 1993

Bowlt, John E., "Stalin as Isis and Ra: socialist realism and the art of design," Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, #24, 2002, p. 34-63 (PDF via Jstor)

Brumfield, William Craft & Blair A. Ruble, Russian housing in the modern age: design and social history, Cambridge University Press, NA7367.R88 1993

Design, Stalin and the Thaw,” Journal of Design History, #2, 1997 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)

Dobrenko, Evgeny, et al., Landscape of Stalinism: the art and ideology of soviet space, University of Washington Press, 2011 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Elliott, David, "Socialist realism," Oxford Art Online

Paperny, Vladimir, Architecture in the age of Stalin, Cambridge University Press, NA1188.P313 2002

Ritter, Katharina, et al., Soviet Modernism 1955-1991: unknown history, Park Books, NA1188.S656 2012

Ryabushin, Alexander & Nadia Smolina, Landmarks of Soviet architecture, 1917-1991, Rizzoli, NA1188.R48 1992

Stanek, Lukasz, Architecture in global socialism: Eastern European, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War, Princeton University Press, NA680 .S79 2020

Tarkhanov, Alexei & Sergei Kavtaradze, Architecture of the Stalin era, Rizzoli, NA1188.T36 1992

Udovički-Selb, Danilo, "Between modernism and socialist realism: Soviet architectural culture under Stalin's revolution from above, 1928–1938," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, #4, 2009, p. 467-495 (PDF via Jstor) 

Bosman, Jos, "CIAM," and “Team Ten,” Oxford Art Online

The Independent Group,” October, #94, Autumn 2000 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)

Massey, Anne, "Independent Group,” Oxford Art Online

Massey, Anne, The Independent Group: modernism and mass culture in Britain, 1945-59, Manchester University Press, N6768.5.I53M37 1995

Massey, Anne, Out of the ivory tower: the Independent Group and popular culture, Manchester University Press, N6768.5.I53M376 2013

Pedret, Annie, Team 10: an archival history, Routledge, NA682.T43P43 2012

Risselada, Max, et al., Team 10: 1953-81, in search of a utopia of the present, Nai, Office-NA682.T43A4 2005

Smithson, Alison, Team 10 meetings: 1953-1984, Rizzoli, Office-NA682.T43T4 1991

Smithson, Alison, et al., Team 10 primer, MIT Press, Office- NA2560.S6644 1968

Chang, Jiat-Hwee, "Deviating discourse: Tay Kheng Soon and the architecture of postcolonial development in tropical Asia,” Journal of Architectural Education, March 2010, p.153–58 (PDF via JSTOR)

Chang, Jiat-Hwee, "Race and tropical architecture: the climate of decolonization and "Malayanization," in Race and modern architecture: a critical history from the enlightenment to the present, edited by Irene Cheng, et al, University of Pittsburgh Press, NA2543.R37 R336 2020 (ebook also available via ProQuest Ebook Central) 

Jazeel, Tariq, “Tropical Modernism/Environmental Nationalism: The Politics of Built Space in Postcolonial Sri Lanka,” University College London [2017]

Klanten, Robert & Masha Erman (editors), Concrete jungle : tropical architecture and its surprising origins, Gestalten, NA2542.T7 C66 2023

Nas, Peter J.M. (editor), The past in the present: architecture in Indonesia, NAi, NA1526 .P37 2006

Robson, David G., Beyond Bawa: modern masterworks of monsoon Asia, Thames & Hudson, NA1511 .R63 2014

Turner, Christopher, Tropical modernism : architecture and independence, V&A Publishing, NA2542.T7 T87 2024

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