Course Readings

Update in Progress

Bachman, Leonard R. "Integrated Building Systems" from Integrated Buildings: The Systems Basis of Architecture. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2003. pp 32 - 47. Download

Beeby, Thomas H. "Toward a Technological Architecture?" Perspecta 31 Reading Structures. Journal of Yale School of Architecture. Foug, Carolyn Ann and Sharon L. Joyce, ed. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000, pp. 10-21.

LeCuyer, Annette. "Concept + Construct". advance copy of paper to appear in Proceedings of BTES 2: Assembling Architecture. Fall 2009.

Ford, Edward. "Preface" and "What is a Detail?. The Architectural Detail. Princeton University Press, New York: 2011. PP 9-48.

Bibliography

General Readings

Bachman, Leonard R. Integrated Buildings: The Systems Basis of Architecture. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2003.

Frampton, Kenneth, John Cava, ed. Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.

Rush, Richard D, AIA, Editor. The Building Systems Integration Handbook. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1986.

Collections of Integrative Case Studies

Buchanan, Peter. Renzo Piano Building Workshop Vols.1-4. Phaidon Press, 1999 – 2003.

Ford, Edward R. The Details of Modern Architecture, Vol. 1, 1990.

Ford, Edward R. The Details of Modern Architecture, Vol. 2, 1996.

Killory, Christine and Rene Davids, ed. Detail in Process. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. 2008.

Integrative Case Studies

Herzog Thomas, ed. Hall 26. Munich: Prestel, 1996.

Herzog, Thomas, ed. Sustainable Height. Munich: Prestel, 2000.

Ojeda, Oscar Riera, ed. Phoenix Central Library, bruderDWLarchitects. Gloucester, MA: Rockport Publishers, Inc. 1999.