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		Preface Including W3645y course syllabus and requirements

		Library A compendium of texts and links relating to the study of 20th Century Architecture and City Planning

		Visual Resources Image portfolios organized in chronological, thematic, and/or media specific groupings

Seminar Essay Assigment(pdf)

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		Seminar Essay Assignment

Lists of Architects (pdf)

		Art Nouveau in Brussels and Paris

		Art Nouveau in Vienna

		Chicago School and New Theories of the City 1

		Chicago School and New Theories of the City 2

		New Theories of the City and Frank Lloyd Wright vs. the Academic Establishment

		The modernization of French Rationalism: Aguuste Perret and Tony Garnier

		The modernization of French Rationalism and Italian Futurism

		The German Werkbund and Peter Behrens’

		The Bauhaus

		The De Stijl Movement

		Le Corbusier

		Mies van der Rohe and "International Architecture"

		"International Architecture" vs. "Interntional Style"

Architectural Essays (pdf)

		Frank Llyod Wright, "The Art and Craft of the Machine"

		Frank Llyod Wright, "In the Cause of Architecture"

		Le Corbusier, "Five Points Towards a New Architecture"

Course Bibliography

* Indicates a book ordered at Labyrinth Books. You should purchase any titles you wish to own before the midterm as the store begins to return unsold copies to publishers during the second half of the term.

# Indicates a title on course reserve in Avery Library.

Required readings will be drawn from the following books. In addition Xeroxed articles will be placed on reserve in Avery Library as required.

Click to download a pdf of the course syllabus, including the reading list below and a short bibliography of standard works on 20th century architecture.

		Banham, Reyner. Theory and Design in the First Machine Age. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2nd edition, 1960. #

		Benevelo, Lionello. History of Modern Architecture. 2 volumes. Cambridge, Mass., 197l.

		Benton, Tim and Charlotte; and Sharp, Dennis. Form and Function: A Source Book for the History of Architecture and Design, 1890-1939. London: The Open University, 1975.#

		Bletter, Rosemarie, "Expressionism and the New Objectivity," Art Journal 43, no. 2 (Summer 1983): 108-120. Xerox on reserve.#

		Brooks, H. Allen (ed). Le Corbusier. New York: Garland, 1987. A collection of the essays that appeared in the 32 volumes of The Le Corbusier Archives. #

		Casciato, Maristella (ed.), The Amsterdam School. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1996. #

		Colquhoun, Alan. Essays in Architectural Criticism. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1981. #

		Colqhoun, Alan. Modernity and the Classical Tradition: Architectural Essays, 1980-1987. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1989. #

		Conrads, Ulrich. Programs and Manifestos on 20th century architecture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 197l.* #

		Curtis, William. Modern Architecture since 1900. Englewood Cliffs, NJ., 1983; 3rd edition, 1996. *#

		Dal Co, Francesco. Figures of Architecture and Thought: German Architecture Culture 1890-1920. New York: Rizzoli, 1990. AA/656/D15. #

		Fishman, Robert. Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1982. *#

		Frampton, Kenneth. Modern Architecture, a critical history. New York: Oxford University Press, Revised edition, 1985. *#

		Goldhagen, Sarah Williams and Réjean Légault. Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press and Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2000. AA 650/An 95 #

		Greenlagh, Paul. (ed.). Art Nouveau 1890-1914. London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 2000. AK 778/ Ar 748 #

		Hays, Michael. Architecture Theory Since 1968. #

		Heynen, Hilda, Architecture and Modernity, A Critique. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. *#

		Hitchcock, Henry-Russell and Johnson, Philip. The International Style. New York, 1932. Norton paperback edition, first printed 1966, with new introduction and reprinted articles by Hitchcock and Johnson. #

		Jordy, William. American Architects and Their Buildings. vol. 4. #

		Lambert, Phyllis (ed.). Mies in America. New York: Abrams, 2001. #

		Lampugnani, V. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture. New York: Abrams, 1986. Nb: This volume can be found in Avery reference, not on reserve.

		Le Corbusier (P.C. Jeanneret). The City of Tomorrow. London, 19xx. (English translation of Urbanisme. Paris, 1925). This is on the permanent LC reserve and not on our course reserve list. #

		Le Corbusier (P. C. Jeanneret). Towards a New Architecture. London, 1937 (English translation of Vers une Architecture. Paris, 1923; itself based on articles which had already appeared in L'Esprit Nouveau). Dover paperback edition. This is on the permanent LC reserve and not on our course reserve list. #

		Le Corbusier, Oeuvre complète. Zurich, 8 volumes, 1964ff. These volumes are part of the Le Corbusier Reserve at Avery, #23. This is on the permanent LC reserve and not on our course reserve list. #

		Loos, Adolf. Spoken into the Void, Collected Essays 1897-1900. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982. AA 775/L87 #

		Ockman, Joan. Architecture Culture 1943-1968, A Documentary Anthology. New York: Columbia Books of Architecture and Rizzoli, 1993. *#

		Passanti, Francesco "The Vernacular, Modernism, and Le Corbusier," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 56 (December 1997): 438-451. Xerox on reserve. #

		Pevsner, Nikolaus. Pioneers of Modern Design from William Morris to Walter Gropius. New York: Penguin paperback, 1960 (based on the book of 1936).

		Pommer, Richard and Otto, Christian. The Weissenhof 1927 and the Modern Movement in Architecture. Chicago, 1991.

		Reed, Peter. Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism. New York: Museum of Modern At, 1998. #

		Riley, Terence and Barry Bergdoll (eds.). Mies in Berlin. New York: Museum of Modern Art and Abrams, 2001. #

		Riley, Terence (ed.). Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect. New York: the Museum of Modern Art, 1994. #

		Roth, Leland (ed.). America Builds. New York: Harper & Row, 1983. #

		Rowe, Colin. The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1976. *#

		Russell, Frank. Art Nouveau Architecture. New York, 1982. #

		Scheer, T. (ed.) City of Architecture/Architecture of the City, Berlin 1900-2000. Exhibition catalogue edited by T. Scheer, J.P. Kleihues, and Paul Kahlfeldt, Berlin: Nicolai, 2000. AA/656/St11. #

		Somol, Robert (ed.). Autonomy and Ideology: Positioning an Avant-Garde in America. New York: Monacelli Press, 1997. #

		Tafuri, Manfredo and Dal Co, Francesco. Modern Architecture. New York, 1979. #

		Venturi, Robert. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. New York: MOMA, 1966. #

		Venturi, Robert; Scott-Brown, Denise; and Izenour, Stephen. Learning from Las Vegas. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1972. #

		Von Moos, Stanislaus. Le Corbusier: Elements of a Synthesis. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1979. *#

		Whitford, Frank. Bauhaus. London: Thames & Hudson, 1984. #

Columbia University Library Web Resources

		Columbia University Library Online Catalogue: CLIO

		Research Databases avaialble through Columbia University: Art, Architecture & Music

Useful Web resources

		Columbia University, Department of Art History and Archaeology Web site index.

		Bartelby.com offers searching within a repository of research texts including the Columbia Encyclopedia, Bulfinch's Mythology and the King James Bible

		The Getty Research Institute Vocabulary Programs: The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) The AAT is a structured vocabulary of around 125,000 terms, scope notes, and other information for describing fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture.

		The Getty Research Institute Vocabulary Programs: The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) The ULAN is a structured vocabulary containing around 220,000 names and biographical information about artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants.

		The Getty Research Institute Vocabulary Programs: The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) The TGN is a structured vocabulary of around 1,000,000 geographic names, including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, and place types, and focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture.

		The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) and its members invite the support and active participation of all who share our interest in architecture—past, present, and future. Founded in 1940, the Society encourages scholarly research in the field and promotes the preservation of significant architectural monuments that are an integral part of our worldwide historical and cultural heritage.

		Society of Architectural Historians Web Resources Page

		American Memory Project American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating tothe history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.

		The Great Buildings Collection This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds.

		Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Web site This Web resource draws from both the "Mies in Berlin" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and the "Mies in America" exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

		The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910–1934 This Web resource accompanies the "The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910–1934" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art