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Modern Architecture & Design II: Suggested and Recommended Readings

Suggested and Recommended Readings

A selection of books which may be useful in the research and writing of your paper, with links to the library's holdings.  

List created by instructor Warren Ashworth, R.A., M.A.:  

At Home / by Bill Bryson 

Delirious New York: a Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan / by Rem Koolhaus 

The Classical Language of Architecture / by John Summerson 

American Buildings and Their Architects, Vol. I: The Colonial and NeoClassical Styles  / by William H. Pierson, Jr. 

Architecturenineteenth and twentieth centuries / by Henry-Russell Hitchcock 

Early Victorian Architecture in Britain, Vols. I and III / by Henry-Russell Hitchcock* 

The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design / by Nikolas Pevsner 

American Buildings and Their Architects, Vol. II: Technology and the Picturesque, The Corporate and Early Gothic Styles / by William H. Pierson 

The Architecture of Country Houses / by A. J. Downing 

The Only Proper Style, Gothic Architecture in America / by Calder Loth and Julius Trousdale Sadler, Jr. 

Owen Jones: Design, Ornament, Architecture, and Theory in an Age in Transition / by Carol A. Hrvol Jones 

Central Park: an American Masterpiece / by Sara Cedar-Miller 

The Arts and Crafts Movement in America: 1876-1916 / edited by Robert Judson Clark

The Architecture of Frank Furness / by James F. O'Gorman * 

The Architecture of H. H. Richardson and His Times / by Henry-Russell Hitchcock 

Shingle Style: Innovation and Tradition in American Architecture 1874-1982 /text by Leland Roth, photographs by Bret Morgan  

 

*Asterisks indicate the book can be found in one of the Consortium libraries (NYU Bobst Library, Cooper Union Library, or The New School Library).  For more information on the libraries within the consortium, click here