JUNIOR SEMINAR
ARCHITECTURE: FORMS AND STRUCTURES
 

SELECTED RESOURCES

INTERNET SITES

American Institute of Architects  
National Register of Historical Landmarks
Society of Architectural Historians
Virtual Library of Architecture
Voice of the Shuttle 

Adair Historical Society
State Historical Society of Missouri
Illinois State Historical Society
State Historical Society of Iowa
United States Census Browser
Missouri Census Trends

About Architecture
Vernacular Architecture in Small Towns in Missouri

Looking at Buildings

A SELECTION OF BOOKS AND VIDEOS

*All of these selections are available in Pickler Memorial Library.

James Stevens Curl.  A Dictionary of Architecture  (1999).
Howard Davis.  The Culture of Buliding  (1999).
Hilary French.  Architecture: A Crash Course  (1998).
Donald Friedman.  The Investigation of Buildings  (2000).
The Great Buildings Collection.  Interactive Multimedia.
Julienne Hanson.  Decoding Homes and Houses  (1998).
Patrick Nuttgens.  The Story of Architecture  (1997).
Witold Rybczynski.  Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture  (1993).
Paul Shepard.  What is Architecture?  (2000).
James G. Scoot.  Architectrual Building Codes: A Graphic Reference  (1997).
Virtual Architecture.  Video.
Henry F. Withey.  Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (1996).

ARCHITECTURAL STYLES

Robert Adam.  Classical Architecture: A Comprehensive Handbook to the Tradition of Classical Style  (1991).
American House: Guide to Architectural Styles.  Video.
Architecture of the Technological Revolution: The Disorders of Insecurity.  Video.
Artful Architecture: The Getty Center and the Guggenheim Museum, Blibao.  Video.
Rachel Carley.  The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture  (1997).
Civic vs. Public: The Orders of Athens and Rome.  Video.
William Curtis.  Modern Architecture since 1900 (1996).
The Greek Temple.  Video.
Cyril M. Harris.  Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture (1983).
Steven J. Phillips.  Old-House Dictionary: An Illustrated Guide to American Domestic Architecture  from 1600-1940  (1996).
John C Poppeliers.  What Style Is It? A Guide to Amreican Architecture  (1996).
Rome: Art and Architecture.  Video.
Skyscraper: The Vertical Masterpiece.  Video.
Marcus Whiffen.  American Architecture Since 1780: A Guyide to the Styles  (1992).

ARCHITECTURAL THEORY

Ben Farmer.  Companion to Contemporary Architectural Thought  (1993).
Gevork Hartoonian.  Ontology of Construction: On Nihilism of Technology in Theories of Modern Architecture (1994).
K. Michael Hays.  Architecture Theory Since 1968  (1998).
Bill Hillier.  Space is the Machie: A Configurational Theory of Architecture  (1996).
Introduction to Patterns of Social Order as Reflected by Architecture.  Video.
Paul-Alan Johnson.  The Theory of Architecture; Concepts, Themes and Practices  (1994).
Neil Leach.  Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory  (1997).

THE BUILDING AND AESTHETICS

Grant Hildebrand.  Origins of Architectural Pleasure (1999).
Richard Hill.  Designs and Their Consequences: Architecture and Aesthetics  (1999).

THE BUILDING AND PHILOSOPHY

Karsten Harries.  The Ethical Function of Architecture  (1996).
Paul Heyer.  American Architecture: Ideas and Ideologies in the Late Twentieth Century (1993).

THE BUILDING AND MATHEMATICS

Architecture: The Science of Design.  Video.
Circle Within the Square.  Video.
H.E. Huntley.  The Divine Proportion: A Study in Mathematical Beauty  (1999).
The Mathematics of Architecture:  Building By Numbers.  Video.
I.M. Pei and the Mathematics of Architecture.  Video.
William Mills Ivins.  Art and Geometry: A Study in Space Intuitions  (1964)
Lionel March.  Architectonics of Humanism: Essays on Number in Architecture  (1998).

THE BUILDING AND SCIENCE

Lynn T. Courtenay.  The Engineering of Medieval Cathedrals  (1997).
Peter Galison.  The Architecture of Science  (2000).
Jacques Heyman.  The Stone Skeleton: Structural Engineering of Masonry Architecture (1995).
The Mechanics of Materials.  Video  (2000).

THE BUILDING AND ECOLOGY

Stewart Brand.  How Buidlings Learn: What Happens After They're Built  (1994).
John Farmer.  Green Shift: Towards a Green Sensibility in Architecture  (1996).
James Marston Fitch.  American Building: The Environmental Forces that Shape It (1999).
Sustainable Architecture (1994).  Video.
Ken Yeang.  Designing with Nature: The Ecological Basis for Architectural Design (1995).

THE BUILDING AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

Norbert Schoenauer.  6,000 Years of Housing  (2000).
Anthony Speaight.  Architect's Legal Handbook  (1995).
Ralf Weber.  On the Aesthetics of Architecture: A Psychological Approach to the Structure and the Order of Perceived Architectural Space  (1995).

THE BUILDING AND GENDER STUDIES

Francesca Hughes.  The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice  (1996).
Linda McDowell.  Space, Gender, Knowledge: Feminist Readings  (1997).

THE BUILDING AND NON-WESTERN APPROACHES TO SPACE

Dora P. Crouch.  Traditions in Architecture: Africa, America, Asia, and Ocerania  (2001).
Johndennis Govert.  Feng Shui: Art and Harmony of Place  (1993).
C. Thomas Mitchell.  Living Design: The Daoist Way of Building  (1998).

THE BUILDING AND RENOVATION

Nora Richter Greer.  Architecture Transformed: New Life for Old Buidlings  (1998).
Christine Madrid.  Dictionary of Building Preservation  (1996).
Norman Tyler.  Historic Preservation: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and Practice (2000).
U.S. Department of Agriculture.  Selecting and Renovating an Old House: A Complete Guide  (2000).

URBAN STUDIES

Christopher Alexander.  Patterns in Architecture.  Video.
John R. Stilgoe.  Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939  (1988).
Marvin Trachtenberg.  Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art, and Power in Early Modern Florence (1997).

ARCHITECTS

Frank Gehry: Architecture in Motion.  Video.
Philip Johnson: Diary of an Eccentric Artist.  Video
Philip Johnson: Looking Back.  Video
Maureen Meister.  H.H. Richardson  (1999).