Readings

Bibliography of Surveys

• Authors A: Aalto, Albrecht, Alexander, APAO, AR, Argan
  1. A. Aalto, "Architect's Conscience" in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  2. D. Albrecht, introduction to WWII and the American Dream
  3. C. Alexander, "A City is Not a Tree," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  4. APAO, "Constitution" in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  5. "The New Empiricism: Sweden's Latest Style" in Architectural Review, 1947
  6. G.C. Argan, "Architecture and Ideology," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
• Authors B: Bachelard, Backstorm, Bakem, Banham, Barnstone, Bergdoll, Bill, Bristol, Blundell Jones & Canniffe
  1. G. Bachelard, "The Oneiric House," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  2. S. Backstorm, "Swede Looks at Sweden" in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  3. D. Bakema, "Doorn Manifest" in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  4. R. Banham, "A Home is Not a House," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  5. R. Banham, "The New Brutalism," The Architectural Review
  6. D.A. Barnstone, The Transparent State: Architecture and politics in postwar Germany [note: pdf may be longer than assigned reading]
  7. B. Bergdoll, introduction to Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
  8. M. Bill, "Education & Design" in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  9. P. Blundell Jones and E. Canniffe, Modern Architecture Through Case Studies: 1945-1990, chapter 1 (Eames House), chapter 2 (Ergo Eiermann, German Pavillion), chapter 3 (Aldo van Eyck, Orphanage), chapter 4 (Gottfried Bohm, Bensberg Town Hall), chapter 5 (Smithsons, Economist Building), chapter 6 (Stirling and Gowan, Leicester Engineering), chapter 8 (Behnisch, Munich Olympics), chapter 13 (Hans Scharoun, National Theatre)
  10. K. Bristol, "The Pruitt Igoe Myth"
• Authors C-D: Caruso, Casciato, Castillo, CIAM, Coderch, Colomina, Conrads, Constant, Cook, Diefendorf
  1. A. Caruso, "Sigurd Lewerentz and a Material Basis for Form," Oase
  2. M. Casciato, "Neorealism in Italian Architecture," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  3. Castillo, introduction to Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design
  4. CIAM, "Reaffirmation" and "Summary of Needs" in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  5. J.A. Coderch de Sentmenat, "It's Not Geniuses We Need Now," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  6. B. Colomina, introduction to Cold War Hothouses, Inventing Postwar Culture
  7. B. Colomina, introduction and chapter one, Domesticity at War
  8. U. Conrads, "The Architecture of Fantasy," in Architecture Fantasy, pp. 8-26.
  9. N. Constant, "The Great Game to Come," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  10. P. Cook, "Zoom and 'Real' Architecture," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  11. J. Diefendorf, introduction to Rebuilding Europe's Bombed Cities
• Authors E-F: Eleb, Epstein Jones, Fiedman, Fuller
  1. Eleb, M., "An Alternative to Functionalist Universalism," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  2. D. Epstein Jones, "Fast, Cheap and In Control," in Re.Building
  3. Y. Friedman, "Program of Mobile Urbanism," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  4. B. Fuller, "Designing a New Industry," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
• Authors G-H: GDR, Giedion et. al., Goldberger, Goldhagen & Legault, Gregotti, Gropius, Howey, Hudnut
  1. GDR, "16 Principles for Restructuring of the Cities" in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  2. S. Giedion et. al., "Nine Points on Monumentality," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  3. P. Goldberger, "The Triumph of Modernism," in The Skyscraper
  4. S.W. Goldhagen and R. Legault, introduction to Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  5. S.W. Goldhagen, "Coda: Reconceptualizing the Modern," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  6. S.W. Goldhagen, "Freedom's Domiciles: Three Projects by Alison and Peter Smithson," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  7. V. Gregotti, "Architecture, Environment, Nature," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  8. V. Gregotti, "Architecture of the Postwar Reconstruction," in New Directions in Italian Architecture
  9. W. Gropius, "Eight Steps Toward a Solid Architecture," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  10. J. Howey, introduction and chapter one ("Philosophies and Results") from The Sarasota School of Architecture: 1941-1966
  11. J. Hudnut, "The Postmodern House," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
• Goldhagen & Legault, excerpts from Anxious Modernisms
  1. M. Casciato, "Neorealism in Italian Architecture," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  2. Eleb, M., "An Alternative to Functionalist Universalism," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  3. S.W. Goldhagen and R. Legault, introduction to Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  4. S.W. Goldhagen, "Coda: Reconceptualizing the Modern," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  5. S.W. Goldhagen, "Freedom's Domiciles: Three Projects by Alison and Peter Smithson," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  6. R. Martin, "Computer Architectures: Saarinen's Patterns, IBM's Brains," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  7. F. Rogier, "The Monumentality of Rhetoric: The Will to Rebuild in Postwar Berlin," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  8. T. Rohan, "The Dangers of Eclecticism: Paul Rudolph's Jewelt Arts Center at Wellesley," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  9. Schwarz, "Concerning the Building Art" in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  10. F. Scott, "Bernard Rudofsky," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  11. J-L. Violeau, "A Critique of Architecture," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  12. C. Wagenaar, "Jaap Bakema and the Fight for Freedom," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  13. C. Wendelken, "Putting Metabolism Back in Place: The Making of a Radically Decontextualized Architecture in Japan," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
• Authors I-L: Isozaki, Jencks, Joedicke, Johnson, Jorn, Kahn, Khrushchev, Le Corbusier, Le Roux, Lods, Lubove
  1. A. Isozaki, "Invisible City," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  2. C. Jencks, "The Post-Modern Agenda"
  3. J. Joedicke, introduction to Architecture Since 1945: Sources and Directions
  4. P. Johnson, "Hunstanton School," The Architectural Review
  5. P. Johnson, "The Seven Crutches of Modern Architecture," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  6. A. Jorn, "Arguments apropos of the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus, Against an Imaginary Bauhaus, and Its Purpose Today," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  7. L. Kahn, "Monumentality," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  8. N. Khrushchev, "Remove Shortcomings in Design, Improve Work of Architects," in Architecture Culture 1943-68
  9. Le Corbusier, "Ineffable Space" in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  10. H. le Roux, "The networks of tropical architecture"
  11. M. Lods, "Return From America," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  12. R. Lubove, "The Pittsburgh Renaissance," in Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh: Government, Business, and Environmental Change
• Authors M-P: Maki & Ohtaka, Martin, McHale, Mies van der Rohe, Muller, Mumford, Niemeyer, Ockman, Pelkonen, Plunz, Ponti
  1. F. Maki and M. Ohtaka, "Toward Group Form," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  2. R. Martin, "Computer Architectures: Saarinen's Patterns, IBM's Brains," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  3. J. McHale, "Machine Made America," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  4. L. Mies van der Rohe, "With Infinite Slowness Arises the Great Form," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  5. E. Muller, "Downtown Pittsburgh: Renaissance and Renewal," Chapter 1 in A Geographic Perspective of Pittsburgh and the Alleghenies: From Precambrian to Post-Industrial (2000), p. 17-27
  6. L. Mumford, "The Skyline [Bay Region Style]," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  7. E. Mumford, "CIAM Urbanism after the Athens Charter," Planning Perspectives
  8. E. Mumford, The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960
  9. J. Ockman, introduction to Architecture Culture 1943-1968 and various excerpts on postwar values
  10. O. Niemeyer, "Form and Function in Architecture," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  11. E.-A. Pelkonen & D. Albrecht, "Introduction," in Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
  12. Plunz, "Pathology of Public Housing," in A History of Housing in New York City
  13. G. Ponti, "The Architect, The Artist," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
• Ockman, excerpts from Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  1. Aalto, "Architect's Conscience" in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  2. C. Alexander, "A City is Not a Tree," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  3. APAO, "Constitution" in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  4. G.C. Argan, "Architecture and Ideology," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  5. G. Bachelard, "The Oneiric House," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  6. Backstorm, "Swede Looks at Sweden" in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  7. Bakema, "Doorn Manifest" in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  8. R. Banham, "A Home is Not a House," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  9. Bill, "Education & Design" in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  10. CIAM, "Reaffirmation" and "Summary of Needs" in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  11. J.A. Coderch de Sentmenat, "It's Not Geniuses We Need Now," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  12. N. Constant, "The Great Game to Come," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  13. P. Cook, "Zoom and 'Real' Architecture," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  14. Y. Friedman, "Program of Mobile Urbanism," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  15. B. Fuller, "Designing a New Industry," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  16. GDR, "16 Principles for Restructuring of the Cities" in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  17. S. Giedion et. al., "Nine Points on Monumentality," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  18. V. Gregotti, "Architecture, Environment, Nature," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  19. W. Gropius, "Eight Steps Toward a Solid Architecture," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  20. J. Hudnut, "The Postmodern House," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  21. A. Isozaki, "Invisible City," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  22. P. Johnson, "The Seven Crutches of Modern Architecture," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  23. A. Jorn, "Arguments apropos of the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus, Against an Imaginary Bauhaus, and Its Purpose Today," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  24. L. Kahn, "Monumentality," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  25. N. Khrushchev, "Remove Shortcomings in Design, Improve Work of Architects," in Architecture Culture 1943-68
  26. Le Corbusier, "Ineffable Space" in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  27. M. Lods, "Return From America," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  28. F. Maki and M. Ohtaka, "Toward Group Form," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  29. J. McHale, "Machine Made America," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  30. L. Mies van der Rohe, "With Infinite Slowness Arises the Great Form," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  31. L. Mumford, "The Skyline [Bay Region Style]," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  32. O. Niemeyer, "Form and Function in Architecture," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  33. J. Ockman, introduction to Architecture Culture 1943-1968 and various excerpts on postwar values
  34. E.N. Rogers, "Preexisting Conditions and Issues of Contemporary Building Practice," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  35. E.N. Rogers, "The Evolution of Architecture: Reply to the Custodian of Frigidaires," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  36. Schwarz, "Concerning the Building Art" in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  37. A. and P. Smithson, "New Brutalism," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  38. J. Stirling, "Regionalism and Modern Architecture," in Architecture Culture 1943-68
  39. K. Tange, "A Plan for Tokyo, 1960: Toward a Structural Reorganization," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  40. A. van Eyck, "Steps Toward a Configurative Discipline," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
• Authors Q-T: Reed, Rogers, Rogier, Rohan, Rowe & Slutzky, Scott, Scully, Smithsons, Stirling, Tange
  1. P. Reed, "Enlisting Modernism," in WWII and the American Dream
  2. E.N. Rogers, "Preexisting Conditions and Issues of Contemporary Building Practice," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  3. E.N. Rogers, "The Evolution of Architecture: Reply to the Custodian of Frigidaires," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  4. F. Rogier, "The Monumentality of Rhetoric: The Will to Rebuild in Postwar Berlin," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  5. T. Rohan, "The Dangers of Eclecticism: Paul Rudolph's Jewelt Arts Center at Wellesley," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  6. C. Rowe and R. Slutzky, "Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal," Perspecta
  7. Schwarz, "Concerning the Building Art" in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  8. F. Scott, "Bernard Rudofsky," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  9. V. Scully, "Rethinking Saarinen," in Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
  10. A. and P. Smithson, "New Brutalism," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  11. J. Stirling, "Regionalism and Modern Architecture," in Architecture Culture 1943-68
  12. J. Stirling, "Ronchamp," The Architectural Review
  13. K. Tange, "A Plan for Tokyo, 1960: Toward a Structural Reorganization," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
• Authors U-Z: van Eyck, Violeau, Wagenaar, Wendelken, Wright, Zevi
  1. A. van Eyck, "Steps Toward a Configurative Discipline," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968
  2. J-L. Violeau, "A Critique of Architecture," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  3. C. Wagenaar, "Jaap Bakema and the Fight for Freedom," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  4. C. Wendelken, "Putting Metabolism Back in Place: The Making of a Radically Decontextualized Architecture in Japan," in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture
  5. G. Wright, "The New Suburban Expansion and the American Dream"
  6. G. Wright, "Public Housing for the Worthy Poor"
  7. B. Zevi, "Three Periods of Expressionist Architecture," in Barron & Dubbe, eds. German Expressionism: Art & Society (1997), pp. 99-149.