The followingbooks will be used for the lectures and projects of the course. Required texts are recommended for purchase and may be obtained, under the course title and number, at the Syracuse University Bookstore. All texts will be on reserve in the Architecture Reading Room, 102 of Slocum Hall.
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Required Texts:
Alan Johnson, Paul; The Theory Of Architecture - Concepts, Themes And Practices
[Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York]
Baudrillard, Jean; Simulations
[Semiotext(e), Inc. Columbia University, 1983]
Nesbitt, Kate; Theorizing Architecture, An Anthology Of Architectural Theory
[ Princeton Architectual Press ]
Barry, Peter; Beginning Theory, An Introduction To Literary And Critical Theory
[Manchester University Press, 1995]
Reference Texts:
Agrest, I. Diana; Architecture From Without, Theoretical Framings for a Critical Practice
[Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991]
Arnheim, Rudolf; Toward a Psychology of Art
[Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966]
Arnheim, Rudolf; The Dynamics Of Architectural Form
[Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977]
Banham, Reynor; Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
Barthes, Roland; Writing Degree Zero, And Elements Of Semiology
[Noonday Press, NY, 1968, Preface by Susan Sontag]
Barthes, Roland; Mythologies
[MIT Press]
Barthes, Roland; The Rustle of Language
[Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989]
Best, Steven and Kellner, Douglas; Postmodern Theory, Critical Interrogations
[The Guilford Press, 1991]
Broadbent, Geoffrey; Signs, Symbols And Architecture
[London and New York: John Wiley And Sons, 1980]
Colquhoun, Alan; Modernity And The Classical Tradition
[Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991] [cover image p. 36]
Dewey, John; Art As Experience
[New York: Paragon Books, 1979]
Doxiadis, K.A. Architectural Space in Ancient Greece
[Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1972]
Glusberg, J; "Deconstruction, A Student's Guide," In Journal of Architectural Theory and Criticism
[Academy Editions, 1991]
Groden and Kreiswirth; The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
[Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982]
Habermas, Jurgen; The Structural Transformation Of The Public Space
[Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989 (1962)]
Hambidge, Jay; The Elements Of Dynamic Symmetry
[Dover Publications]
Harvey, David; The Condition Of Postmodernity
[Cambridge: Plackwell Pub, 1990]
Holm, Lorens; "Reading Through The Mirror: Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier,
The Invention Of Perspective And The Post-Freudian Eye /I"
Assemblage 18; pp. 21-39
Kepes, Gyorgy; Language of Vision
[USA Poole Bros, 1951]
Kepes, Gyorgy; Structure in Art and Science
[George Brazillier, Inc.]
Kolb, David; Postmodern Sophistications, Philosophy, Architecture and Tradition
[University of Chicago Press, 1990]
Kuhn, Thomas; The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
[University of Chicago Press]
Kaplan, Ann E; Postmodernism And Its Discontents
[London, New York: 1988]
Kahn, Andrea; Drawing Building Text
[Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1991]
Koolhaas, Rem; "Urbanism After Innocence;"
Introduction by Sanford Kwinter; "The Reinvention of Geometry;"
Assemblage 22
Koolhaas, Rem; Delirious New York
[The Monacelli Press, 1978]
Kruft, Hanno Walter; A History Of Architectural Theory
[Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1994]
Lacan, Jacques; Rem Koolhaas. OMA.
[Princeton Architectural Press, 1991]
Lipstadt, H., Mendelsohn, H.; "Philosophy, History and Autobiography:
Manfredo Tafuri and the 'Unsurpassed Lesson' of Le Corbusier"
Assemblage 22; pp. 58-103
Margolin, Victor, ed.; Design Discourse: History, Theory, Criticism
[Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989]
Mumford, Lewis; The Story of Utopias
[New York: Viking Press, 1962]
Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl; Matrix of Man.
[NY, F.A. Praeger Publisher, 1969]
Moneo, Rafael; "On Typology"
Oppositions V13-16; pp. 23-45
Peirce, Charles S.; The Essential Peirce : Selected Philosophical Writings
[Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1992]
Plato; Five Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Republic
[Classic Club, 1942]
Porphyrious, D; " The End of Styles"
Oppositions, Spring 1977:8 pp. 118-133
Russell Hitchcock Henry; The International Style.
[New York, The Norton Library, 1966]
Rowe, Colin; Collage City
[Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press]
Rowe, Colin; The Architecture of Good Intentions
[Academy Editions, 1994]
Rowe, Colin; The Mathematics Of The Ideal Villa and Other Essays
[Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1982]
Russell, Bertrand; The Art of Philosophizing And Other Essays
[Littlefield Adams, 1968]
Scruton, Roger; The Aesthetics of Architecture
[Princeton Architectural Press, 1979]
Stella, Frank; Working Space
[Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1986]
Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1983-1984
Sontag, Susan; Against Interpretation And Other Essays
[New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966]
Tafuri, Manfredo; Theories and History of Architecture
[New York: Harper and Row, 1976]
Truett Anderson, Walter; The Truth About The Truth
[New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995]
Tschumi, Bernard; Architecture of Disjunction
[Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1994]
Tschumi, Bernard; The Manhattan Transcripts.
[Academy Editions, St. Martin's Press, 1981]
Vattimo, Gianni; The End of Modernity
[Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991]
Venturi, Robert; Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.
[New York: The Museum Of Modern Art, New York, Second Edition, 1972]
Venturi, Brown, Izenour; Learning From Las Vegas
[Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1985]
Vidler, Anthony; "The Explosion of Space: Architecture and the Filmic Imaginary"
Assemblage 21; pp. 44-59
Vidler, Anthony; "The Idea Of Type: The Transformation Of The Academic Ideal, 1750-1830"
Oppositions, Spring 1977:8 pp. 95-115
Vidler, Anthony; "The Consumption of Style"
Oppositions, Spring 1977:8 pp. 117
Vidler, Anthony; "The Dream Of A New Architecture"
Oppositions, Spring 1977:8 pp. 117
Vitruvius; The Ten Books of Architecture
Translated by M.L. Morgan
von Meiss, Pierre, Elements of Architecture, From Form to Place.
[New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold International Co. Ltd. Press, 1990]
Wigley, Mark; "White Out: Fashioning the Modern" [part 2]
Assemblage 22; pp. 6-49
Wigley, Mark;
"Architecture After Philosophy: Le Corbusier and the Emperor's New Paint"
Philosophy and Architecture
Wittkower, Rudolf; Architectural Principles in The Age of Humanism
Wodehouse, Lawrence; MOFFET, Marian; A History of Western Architecture
[Mayfield Pub. Co., 1989]
