Sports buildings: General resources

Ballparks of Baseball (Fan site packed with info)

Berg, Nate, “Fan favorite: how Studio-MLA learned to embrace the potential of the sports stadium,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, October 2017, p.144-157

Cassuto, Leonard & Stephen Partridge, The Cambridge Companion to Baseball, 2011 (Cambridge Companions Online)

Fisher, Thomas, “CHS Field, St. Paul, Minn,” Architect, August 2015, p.100-107

Major League Baseball homepage

Podair, Jerald, City of dreams: Dodger Stadium and the birth of modern Los Angeles, Princeton University Press, GV417.D63 P63 2017

Smith, Janet, et al (Editors), The diamonds of American cities, Yale School of Architecture, GV879.5 .S64 2019

World Baseball/Softball Confederation (WBSC)

“Bosque de la Esperanza, Bogota, 2012: Giancarlo Mazzanti,” Lotus International, January 2014, p.78-18 (open air facility)

Courts of the World (Emphasis on public courts)

Grasso, John, Historical dictionary of basketball, Scarecrow Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Inside arenas (“taking you courtside to every NBA arena”)

International Basketball Federation 

Jozsa, Frank P., The National Basketball Association: business, organization and strategy, World Scientific, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

National Basketball Association

Nuijsink, Cathelijne, “Slam dunk: Koizumi Sekkei wraps a house around a basketball court,” Mark: Another Architecture, April/May 2016, p.40-41

International Boxing Association (IBA), formerly Association Internationale de Boxe Amateur (AIBA)

International Sumo Federation (IFS)

The Pugilist/Inside Boxing, http://www.insideboxing.com/ (News)

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) “Octogon”

United World Wrestling (UWW), formerly Fédération Internationale des Luttes Associées (FILA)

World Karate Federation

Arena and indoor football leagues include: the Indoor Football League (est. 2008), National Arena League (est. 2016), Champions Indoor Football (est. 2012), and American Arena League (est. 2016)

Dillon, David & David Pagel, Cowboys Stadium: architecture, art, entertainment in the twenty-first century, Rizzoli, GV417.C69 D55 2010

List of American football stadiums by capacity (Wikipedia)

National Football League

Cory, Gregory L., et al, Golf course development in residential communities, Urban Land Institute, GV975 .U667 2001

Diedrich, Richard J., Building type basics for recreational facilities, Wiley, NA2543.R43D54 2005 (Chapter 2, Golf)

Dodson, Ronald G., Sustainable golf courses, J. Wiley & Sons, GV975.3 .D63 2005

Fazio, Tom, Golf course designs, Harry N. Abrams, GC975 .F38 2000

Gold Channel’s World Golf guide

International Golf Federation (IGF)

Berg, Nate, “Fan favorite: how Studio-MLA learned to embrace the potential of the sports stadium,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, October 2017, p.144-157

Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)

Gaffney, Temples of the Earthbound Gods: Stadiums in the Cultural Landscapes of Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Jaeger, Falk (editor), 3 stadia 2010: architecture for an African dream, Jovis, NA6862.S6 A12 2010

The Stadium Guide (global listing of stadiums with photos, histories and descriptions)

Wimmer, Martin, Construction and design manual: stadium buildings, DOM Publishers, NA6860 .W5613 2016 (Section 4, Football Stadiums)

Diedrich, Richard J., Building type basics for recreational facilities, Wiley, NA2543.R43D54 2005 (Chapter 5, Handball…Indoor Tennis)

International Tennis Federation (ITF)

“Tennis court design: considerations when designing your court,” Charles Lawrence Tennis Courts (U.K.-based business)

Women’s Tennis Federation (WTA)

American Sports Builders Association (ASBA)

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)

Matthew, Peter, Historical dictionary of track and field, Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Meyer, Friederike, “Leicjtathletik in Lausanne," Bauwelt, February 2017, p.14-17 (Stadium competition results. Includes drawings, diagrams, photos, sections, and site plans.)

“Amager Resource Center / ARC, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010,” Architecture & Urbanism, May 2016, #5(548), p.38-47

Diedrich, Richard J., Building type basics for recreational facilities, Wiley, NA2543.R43D54 2005 (Chapter 6, Skiing and Winter Sports)

Fédération Internationale de Ski (FIS)

International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF)

International Skating Union (ISU)

List of National Hockey League arenas (Wikipedia)

Shubert, Howard, Architecture on ice: a history of the hockey arena, McGill-Queen's University Press, GV850.7 .S58 2016

Ski Central (General, international winter sport links)

AMF Bowling center finder

Andreu, David, Skateparks : waves of concrete, Booq Publishing, GV859.8 .A53 2023

Bateman, Anthony & Jeffrey Hill, The Cambridge Companion to Cricket, 2011 (Cambridge Companions Online)

Diedrich, Richard J., Building type basics for recreational facilities, Wiley, NA2543.R43D54 2005 (Chapter 7, Equestrian; Chapter 8, Extreme Action Sports)

Fédération Équestre Internationale (FEI)

Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG, includes “Apparatus norms, 2022”)

Global Bocce

List of cycling tracks and velodromes (Wikipedia)

List of horse racing venues (Wikipedia)

Nichols, Chris, Bowlarama! : the architecture of mid-century bowling, Angel City Press, GV908.N534 2024

The Skatepark Project (non-profit organization founded by Tony Hawk)

Jozsa, Frank P., Global Sports: Cultures, Markets and Organizations, World Scientific, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Levinson, David & Karen Christensen, Encyclopedia of world sport: from ancient times to the present, Oxford University Press, GV567 .E55 1998

Pearson, John, Arena: the story of the Colosseum, McGraw-Hill, DG68.1.P4

Putzi, Sibylla, A to Z World Sports: 175 Countries: Individual Sports Participation, Private Sports Clubs, School Sports, Professional Sports, Major Spectator Sporting Events, World Trade Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

“Philosophy of sport,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Quenell, Peter, The Colosseum, Newsweek, DG68.1.O4

Romano, David Gilman, Athletics and mathematics in archaic Corinth: the origins of the Greek stadion, American Philosophical Society, NA285.C6R65 1993

Miller, Stephen G., Arete: Greek sports from ancient sources, University of California Press, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

Host cities since 1960:

1960 Rome & Squaw Valley, 1964 Tokyo & Innsbruck, 1968 Mexico City & Grenoble, 1972 Munich & Sapporo, 1976 Montreal & Innsbruck, 1980 Moscow & Lake Placid, 1984 Los Angeles & Sarajevo, 1988 Seoul & Calgary, 1992 Barcelona & Alberville,1994 Lillehammer (this year the winter events began a separate schedule), 1996 Atlanta, 1998 Nagano, 2000 Sydney, 2002 Salt Lake City, 2004 Athens, 2006 Turin, 2008 Beijing, 2010 Vancouver, 2012 London, 2014 Sochi, 2016 Rio de Janeiro, 2018 Pyeongchang, 2020 Tokyo, 2022 Beijing, 2024 Paris, 2026 Milano/Cortina, 2028 Los Angeles, 2030 French Alps, 2032 Brisbane

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Broudehoux, Anne Marie, “Images of power: architectures of the integrated spectacle at the Beijing Olympics,” JAE, March 2010, p.52-62 (via JSTOR)

Boykoff, Jules, “The Olympics in the Twenty-First Century: Where does Rio fit in?” From, Rio 2016: Olympic myths, hard realities, Brookings Institute Press, 2017 (via JSTOR)

Carvalho, Solange, “Who is the real winner?: urban redevelopment for the Rio 2016 Olympics,” Topos, September 2013, p.26-31

“Design Histories of the Olympic Games,” Journal of Design History, 2012 (Theme issue via JSTOR)

"A Designer Olympics," Progressive Architecture, June 1988 (Theme issue) (Barcelona 1992)

Dixon, John Morris, "Atlanta's Pragmatic Olympics," Progressive Architecture, July 1995, p.51-59, 102, 104 (Atlanta 1996)

Duarte, Fábio, et al, “Urban transportation and major sporting events – what is left after the games,” Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, February 2016, p.41-58 (via JSTOR)

Gonchar, Joann, “Wave of the future: designers behind the London 2012 Summer Olympics,” Architectural Record, June 2012, p.92-96, 98, 100

Hartman, Hattie, “Marathon not a sprint,” Architects’ Journal, March 15, 2012, p.48-52, 54-55 (London 2012)

Heffernan, Tony, "What’s in the games for downtown Atlanta?" Urban Land, September 1995, p.43-47 (Atlanta 1996)

International Olympic Committee (IOC)

Kavalar, Michael, “Rio gets ready,” Planning, July 2016, p.14-18

"L. A. Olympics," Design Quarterly, 1985, #127 (Los Angeles 1984)

Logan, Katharine, “London calling: as London strives to reduce the impact of the 2012 Summer Olympics, we consider the sustainable legacy of past events,” GreenSource, May/June 2012, p.50-54

"Olympia in Berlin?" Bauwelt, September 25, 1992 (Theme issue) (Berlin 2000?)

Pallister, James & Ruth Slavid (editors), Eastside story. Volume 2, Olympic Park, EMap, NA6682.G72 E37 2012

Sheridan, Mike, “Rio 2016 Olympics: racing to get ready,” Urban Land, March / April 2014, p.94-101

Van Bruggen, Arnold, “Black mark on the Black Sea,” Architectural Review, February 2014, p.16-17 (Sochi 2014)

Wang, Val, “China’s vast adventure: how the Olympic Games changed Beijing,” Planning, July 2008, p.28-31

Wergeland, Even Smith, “When icons crumble – the troubled legacy of Olympic design,” Journal of Design History, 2012, Vol.25, #3, p.304-318 (via JSTOR)