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A Selection of Readings on the History of Modern Architecture, Design, and Design-Thinking

Benton, Tim, Charlotte Benton, and Dennis Sharp. Form and Function: A Source Book for the History of Architecture and Design, 1890-1939 (London: Crosby Lockwood Staples, in association with The Open University Press). [CALL NO BSL Main Collection 724.9 F723]

Collins, Peter. Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture (London : Faber and Faber, 1965). [.BSL Main Collection 720.9 C712A 1.2 Copy 1]

Curtis, William J.R. Modern Architecture Since 1900 (Oxford : Phaidon, 1982). [CALL NO BSL Main Collection 724.91 C981m.2]

Fergusson, Russell, ed. At The End of The Century: One Hundred Years of Architecture. Organized by Richard Koshalek and Elizabeth A.T. Smith (Los Angeles : Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles & Harry N. Abrams, 1998). [CALL NO BSL Main Collection 724.6 K86a]

Frampton, Kenneth. Modern Architecture, A Critical History. (London: Thames and Hudson, first published in 1980) [.BSL Main Collection 724.9 F813m.2 Copy 3}

Jencks, Charles, ed. The post-modern (London and New York: Academy Editions/St Martin's Press, 1992). [CALL NO BSL Main Collection 700.9045 J51p]

Nesbitt, Kate, ed. Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An anthology of Architectural Theory, 1965-1995 (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996). [CALL NO BSL Main Collection 720.1 N458t]

Ockman, Joan, ed. Architecture Culture 1943-1969: A Documentary Anthology. Compiled with the collaboration of Edward Eigen (New York, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation: Columbia books of architecture/Rizzoli, 1993). [CALL NO BSL Main Collection 724.6 O16a]

Kruft, Hanno-Walter. A History of Architectural Theory from Vitruvius to the Present (New York: Princeton Architectural Press/Zwemmer). [CALL NO BSL Main Collection 720.1 K94g]

Tournikiotis, Panayotis, The Historiography of Modern Architecture (Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1999). [CALL NO BSL Main Collection 720.722 T728h]

Other key books and articles

Banham, Reyner. Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (London: The Architectural Press, 1960),

Benevolo, Leonardo. History of Modern Architecture, 2 vols. (Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 1977, first published in Italian in 1960).

Bhatt, Vikram and Peter Scriver. After the masters: contemporary Indian architecture (Ahmedabad and New York: Mapin Pub, 1990) CALL NO BSL Main Collection 720.954 B575a

Peters, Tom F., Building the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996).

Blau, Judith R. Architects and firms: a sociological perspective on architectural practice (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1984).

Boyd, Robin. The Australian Ugliness (Melbourne: Cheshire, 1960). CALL NO BSL Main Collection 720.994 B789a

Bucci, Frederico. Albert Kahn: Architect of Ford. (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.)

Cuff, Dana. Architecture: The Story of Practice (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995).

Elliot, Cecil D. Technics and Architecture: The Development of Materials and Systems for Buildings (Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 1992).

Fletcher, Banister, Sir. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method, for students, craftsmen and amateurs, 13th edition (London, 1946)

Giedion, Sigfried. Space, Time and Architecture: The growth of a new tradition. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1941).

Hobsbawm, Eric. Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 (London: Abacus, 1995). See in particular, chapter 6: "The Arts, 1914-1945", 178-198.

Irving, Robert Grant. Indian Summer: Lutyens, Baker, and Imperial Delhi. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981).

Jacobs, Jane. The death and life of great American cities (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961). CALL NO BSL Main Collection 711 J17

Jencks, Charles and Karl Kropf. Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture (London: Academy Editions/Wiley, 1997).

Kostof, Spiro. A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals. Second edition with revisions by Greg Castillo (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), chapter 27, 695-719.

Lane, Barbara M.. Architecture and Politics in Germany, 1918-1945 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968).

Lefaivre, Liane and Alexander Tzonis. "The Mechanization of Architecture and the Birth of Functionalism", Via 7 (1984): 121-144.

Lynch, Kevin. The image of the city (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1960). CALL NO BSL Main Collection 711.40973 L987i

Metcalf, T.R. An Imperial Vision: Indian Architecture and Britain's Raj. (London: Faber, 1989).

Newton, Barry. "The Tree of Architecture: Banister Fletcher and the Orders of Precedent." In Garth Rockcastle, ed. Type and the (Im)Possibilities of Convention, Midgard Monographs of Architectural Theory and Criticism, No. 2 (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1991)

Neuhart, John, Marilyn Neuhart, and Ray Eames. Eames design: The work of the Office of Charles and Ray Eames (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1989). CALL NO BSL Main Collection 745.44922 E12.N

Ockman, Joan. "Toward a Theory of Normative Architecture." In Steven Harris and Deborah Berke, eds. Architecture of the Everyday (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997), 123-152.

Scully, Vincent Joseph. American architecture and urbanism (New York : Praeger, 1969) CALL NO BSL Main Collection 720.973 S437

White, Stephen. Building in the Garden: The architecture of Joseph Allen Stein in India and California (Delhi, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).

Tarkhanov, A. and S. Kavtaradze. Architecture of the Stalin Era (New York: Rizzoli, 1992).

Tombesi, Paolo. "The Carriage in the Needle: Building Design and Flexible Specialization Systems," Journal of Architectural Education 52/3 (February 1999): 134-142.

Walker, Paul. "Vagrancy: Asia and the Pacific in Sir Banister Fletcher’s A History of Architecture". In S. Cairns and P. Goad, eds. Building, Dwelling, Drifting: Migrancy and the Limits of Architecture, papers from the 3rd ‘Other Connections Conference’. The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne June 1997 (Melbourne, 1997), 356-362.

Wingler, Hans. Bauhaus (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1969).

Wright, Gwendolyn. The Politics of Design in French Colonial Urbanism. (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1991).