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| 'Lines' (from Outside Lies Magic, John Stilgoe) Whu All the Hoopla? Hal Foster |
| HOME COURSE CRITICS PAST SEMESTERS |
Suitably Attired, William Hamilton |
'You Have to Pay for the Public Life', (from Dimensions, Charles Moore, et al) 'A World Like Santa Barbara', David Hickey (from Harper's Magazine Sept 2000) |
| 'Four Elements of Architecture' (essay by Gottfried Semper) |
'The Idea of Lasting, A Conversation with Rafael Moneo' (from Perspecta 24) 'Stone and Its Substitutes' (from Discovering the Vernacular Landscape, J.B. Jackson) |
| reference |
Reality and Authenticity in the Experience Economy, Michael Benedikt (from Architectural Record 11/01) Quality In Workmanship, David Pye (from The Nature and Art of Workmanship) Seven Points for the Millenium (Kenneth Frampton) The Beholding Eye: Ten Versions of the Same Scene (D.W. Meinig) The Bilbao Effect (Witold Rybczinski) Sustainibility is a Cultural Problem (Wilfried Wang) Getting Coffee Is Hard To Do (Stanley Fish) |
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| Suggested Reading Manifestoes and Rhetoric Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas What Is Architecture?, Paul Shepheard Toward a New Architecture, Le Corbusier Architecture and Disjunction, Bernard Tschumi Complexity and Contradiction, Robert Venturi The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs For An Architecture of Reality, Michael Benedikt How Buildings Learn, Stewart Brand Without Rhetoric, Alison and Peter Smithson Design with Climate, Victor Olgyay Design with Nature, Ian McHarg The Necessity for Ruins, and Other Topics, J.B. Jackson Translations from Drawing to Building, Robin Evans About Looking, John Berger Spoken Into the Void, Adolf Loos Team 10 Primer, ed. Alison Smithson Modern Architecture: A Critical History, Kenneth Frampton Nine Points on Monumentality, Sert, et al. place and occasion, Aldo van Eyck Cities Conscience of the Eye, Richard Sennett The Uses of Disorder, ibid. Boston: A Topographical History, Walter Muir Whitehead Mapping Boston, Alex Krieger, ed. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Mike Davis Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion Landscape(s) The Cultivated Wilderness, Paul Shepheard Denatured Visions, Stuart Wrede, ed. Eccentric Spaces, Robert Harbison The Machine in the Garden, Leo Marx Common Landscape of America 1580-1845, John Stilgoe The Shallow Water Dictionary, ibid. Outside Lies Magic, ibid. Relating Architecture to Landscape, Jan Birksted, ed. Recovering Landscape, James Corner, ed. The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Dana Basin and Range, John McPhee The Control of Nature, ibid. Crabgrass Frontier, Kenneth Jackson Building The Details of Modern Architecture, Vols. 1 and 2, Edward Ford On Weathering, Mohsen Mostafavi and David Leatherbarrow Uncommon Ground, David Leatherbarrow The Nature and Art of Workmanship, David Pye Note: Some number of these may be placed on reserve in the BAC library. |
| other articles of interest |
| Mapping (This American Life) |
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