READINGS
REQUIRED TO PURCHASE:
1) This Sourcebook: INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, on
sale at Copy Cat, 3945 Forbes, 8 am to midnight. (Unless you're printing
it out from the Web.)
2) The class text: Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman, Architecture:
From Prehistory to Post-Modernism, on sale at the University Book Centre.
- REQUIRED READING ON THE RESERVE SHELF IN FRICK LIBRARY:
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- 1) Both the Sourcebook and Architecture are also on reserve in Frick
Library.
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- 2) For the section meetings on Gothic architecture in October:
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- Robert Mark, "Structural Analysis of Gothic Cathedrals: Chartres
and Bourges," in Scientific American 227 (1972):90-99;
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- John Summerson, "Heavenly Mansions: An Interpretation of Gothic,"
in Summerson, Heavenly Mansions, pp. 1-28.
SUGGESTED BUT OPTIONAL READING ON RESERVE:
Labelle Prussin, "An Introduction to Indigenous African Architecture,"
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 33 (1974):183-194 and
205;
Suzanne Preston Blier, "Houses Are Human: Architectural Self-images
of Africa's Tamberma," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
42 (1983):371-382.
TWO PERSONALIZED VIEWS ON LOOKING AT ARCHITECTURE, AS POSSIBLE ADJUNCTS
TO THE MAIN TEXT AND THE LECTURES:
Christian Norberg-Schulz's Meaning in Western Architecture;
Steen Eiler Rasmussen's Experiencing Architecture (this is a required
purchase for students in the Writing sections).
THREE MODELS FOR EFFECTIVE WRITING ON ARCHITECTURE:
-"The curious Walls of Larsen Hall," Architectural Forum 124
(March 1966):47-53 (consists of two critiques of the Harvard School of Education
building: one on pp. 47-49 by Donald Canty; a second on pp. 50-51, by James
Ackerman, with a reply by Canty on p. 52 and a site photograph on p. 53)
-Peter Barnett, "A Gateway for the Creative Arts," Connection
(Winter 1967): 7-11 (four copies)
-Franklin Toker, "In the Grand Manner: The P&LE Station in Pittsburgh,"
Carnegie Magazine 53/3 (1979):4-21
TWO USEFUL BOOKS FOR ISSUES OF STYLE IN WRITING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE:
-Sylvan Barnet, A Short Guide to Writing About Art;
-John Blumenson, Identifying American Architecture
- In addition the following books are in the regular Frick collection
(those marked + are housed in the reference room) as supplementary reading
for architectural traditions you may want to learn more about:
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- R. Branner, Gothic Architecture
- F. Brown, Roman Architecture
- Julius Gl¸ck, "African Architecture," in D. Fraser,
ed., The Many Faces of Primitive Art, pp 224-243.
- L. Grodecki, Gothic Architecture
- +C. Harris, Historic Architecture Sourcebook
- +Harris and Lever, Illustrated Glossary of Architecture 850-1830
- + International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture. 2 vols.
In Reference Room at NA40.I48. A most useful set of sketches of major buildings
and architects in the western tradition.
- +The dictionary of art (34 v., 1996: reference room N31 D5 1996): lists
all major architects & building styles
- R. F. Jordan, Victorian Architecture
- S. Kostof, A History of Architecture
- H.E. Kubach, Romanesque Architecture
- B. Lowry, Renaissance Architecture
- S. Lloyd, et al., Ancient Architecture: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Crete,
Greece
- W. MacDonald, Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture
- +R. Mair, Key Dates in Art History
- C. Mango, Byzantine Architecture
- +Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects, 4 vols.
- R. Middleton, Neoclassical and Nineteenth Century Architecture
- H. Millon, Baroque and Rococo Architecture
- +H. Millon, Key Monuments in the History of Architecture
- P. Murray, Architecture of the Renaissance
- C. Norberg-Schulz, Baroque Architecture
- C. Norberg-Schulz, Late Baroque and Rococo Architecture
- J. Norwich, ed., The World Atlas of Architecture
- E. Panofsky, Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism
- N. Pevsner, Outline of European Architecture
- +N. Pevsner, Fleming, and Honour, Dictionary of Architecture
- +J. Pierce, From Abacus to Zeus: A Handbook of Art History (defines
many art terms, including those used in description and analysis of architecture)
- R. Scranton, Greek Architecture
- J. Summerson, The Architecture of the Eighteenth Century
- J. Summerson, Heavenly Mansions
- J. Varriano, Italian Baroque and Rococo Architecture
- J.B. Ward-Perkins, Roman Architecture
- D. Watkin, History of Western Architecture
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