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Architecture, Postmodern

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• Architecture, Modern -- 20th century
• Postmodernism
• Architecture

• Postmodern architecture

• An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism (2008), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

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• Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art (based on 1902-1914 editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1988), by Otto Wagner, ed. by Harry Francis Mallgrave (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas: Essays on the History of Ideas (2015), by Ingrid Böck (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• John C. Parkin, Archives, and Photography: Reflections on the Practice and Presentation of Modern Architecture (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by Linda M. Fraser, Michael McMordie, and Geoffrey Simmins (PDF at University of Calgary)
• An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism (2008), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Architecture Beyond Architecture (1995), ed. by Cynthia C. Davidson and Ismail Serageldin (PDF at archnet.org)
• Architecture for Islamic Societies Today (1994), ed. by James Steele (PDF at archnet.org)
• Faith and the Built Environment: Architecture and Behavior in Islamic Cultures, ed. by Suha Ozkan (PDF files at archnet.org (scroll down inset to "Associated documents" for chapter links and downloads))

• Mission 66 Visitor Centers: The History of a Building Type (2000), by Sarah Allaback (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition: A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful of the Architectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (second edition, revised; San Francisco: P. Elder and Co., c1915), by Maud Wotring Raymond and John Hamlin, ed. by Paul Elder, contrib. by Louis Christian Mullgardt (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by William Craft Brumfield (HTML at UC Press)

• Mission 66 Visitor Centers: The History of a Building Type (2000), by Sarah Allaback (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Living Spaces (New York: Whitney Publications, 1952), ed. by George Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early Postmodernism: Foundational Essays (compilation of essays published in "boundary 2"; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), ed. by Paul A. Bové (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Culture of Citizenship: Inventing Postmodern Civic Culture (second edition, 2001), by Thomas Bridges (HTML at crvp.org)
• The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett's Dialogue With Art (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Lois Oppenheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism, by Steven Shivaro (HTML at dhalgren.com)
• Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond, by Douglas Kellner (PDF at UCLA)

• The Electronic Disturbance, by Critical Art Ensemble (PDF files at critical-art.net)

• Absolutes or Not (Springfield, MO: Global University, 2009), by David Kowalski (PDF at globalreach.org)
• Overcoming Onto-Theology: Toward a Postmodern Christian Faith (New York: Fordham University Press, 2001), by Merold Westphal (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• The Charmed Circle of Ideology: A Critique of Laclau and Mouffe, Butler and Žižek (c2008), by Geoff Boucher (PDF with commentary at re-press.org)
• Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism, by Steven Shivaro (HTML at dhalgren.com)
• The Electronic Disturbance, by Critical Art Ensemble (PDF files at critical-art.net)

• Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene (WWW edition), by Arthur Kroker (HTML at archive.org)

• In What Style Should We Build? The German Debate on Architectural Style (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1992), ed. by Wolfgang Herrmann, contrib. by Heinrich Hübsch, Rudolf Wiegmann, Carl Albert Rosenthal, Karl Bötticher, and Johann Heinrich Wolff (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• The Active Eye in Architecture (1977), by George Trevelyan (illustrated HTML with commentary at sirgeorgetrevelyan.org.uk)
• The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture (1922), by Claude Fayette Bragdon (Gutenberg text)
• Architecture and Democracy (1918), by Claude Fayette Bragdon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture (Rochester, NY: Manas Press, 1910), by Claude Fayette Bragdon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cyclopedia of Architecture, Historical, Descriptive, Typographical, Decorative, Theoretical and Mechanical (Home Cyclopedia #7, 2 volumes in 1; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1854), ed. by Robert Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Descriptive Handbook of Architecture (London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, ca. 1905), by Martin A. Buckmaster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Six Lectures on Architecture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1917), by Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas Hastings, and Claude Fayette Bragdon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth (London: Percival and Co., 1892), by Ch. Letourneau (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Crown of Wild Olive (New York: H. M. Caldwell Co., n.d.), by John Ruskin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Formal Structure in Islamic Architecture of Iran and Turkistan, by Klaus Herdeg (PDF files at archnet.org (scroll down in inset to "Associated documents" for chapter links and downloads))

• Beautiful Buildings in France and Belgium, Including Many Which Have Been Destroyed During the War (New York: Hubbell Pub. Co., c1916), by Charles Harrison Townsend (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• In What Style Should We Build? The German Debate on Architectural Style (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1992), ed. by Wolfgang Herrmann, contrib. by Heinrich Hübsch, Rudolf Wiegmann, Carl Albert Rosenthal, Karl Bötticher, and Johann Heinrich Wolff (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799 (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1994), by Friedrich Gilly, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Fritz Neumeyer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Congrès International des Architectes: Cinquième Session, Tenue à Paris du 29 Juillet au 4 Août 1900; Organisation, Compte Rendu et Notices (in French; Paris: Chaix, 1906)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for the Conservation of Heritage Places (2 volumes; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2007), contrib. by Robin Letellier, Werner Schmid, François LeBlanc, Rand Eppich, and Amel Chabbi
  • Volume I (Guiding Principles): PDF at getty.edu
  • Volume II (Illustrated Examples): PDF files at getty.edu

• Livre d'Architecture de Jacques Androuet, du Cerceau; Auquel Sont Contenues Diverses Ordonnances de Plants et Elevations de Bastiments pour Seigneurs, Gentilshommes, et Autres qui Voudront Bastir aux Champs (in French; Paris: J. Androuet, 1582), by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (page images and PDF transcription with commentary at Architectura)
• Livre d'Architecture de Jaques Androuet du Cerceau: Contenant les Plans et Dessaings de Cinquante Bastimens Tous Differens (in French; Paris: B. Prévost, 1559), by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (page images and PDF transcription with commentary at Architectura)

• The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, or, The Art of Drawing and Working the Ornamental Parts of Architecture (London: S. Harding, 1756), by Batty Langley (page images at Wisconsin)
• Guide for Drawing the Acanthus, and Every Description of Ornamental Foliage (London: B. Quaritch, reprinted 1886), by James Page
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Second Livre d'Architecture par Jaques Androuet du Cerceau: Contenant Plusieurs et Diverses Ordonances de Cheminees, Lucarnes, Portes, Fonteines, Puis, et Pavillons, Pour Enrichir Tant le Dedans que le Dehors de Tous Edifices (in French; Paris: A. Wechel, 1561), by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (page images with commentary at Architectura)
• New England Georgian Architecture: 55 Measured Drawings With Full Size Details (New York: Architectural Book Pub. Co., 1913), by Ralph Clarke Kingman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Practical House Carpenter; or the Youth's Instructor (London: William Pain, 1792), by William Pain (page images at Wisconsin)

• Handbook of Technical Terms Used in Architecture and Building and Their Allied Trades and Subjects (London: Scott, Greenwood, and Co.; et al., 1904), by Augustine C. Passmore
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• De Re Aedificatoria (in Latin; Florence: N. di Lorenzo, 1485), by Leon Battista Alberti (page images with commentary at Architectura)
• Di Lucio Vitruuio Pollione De Architectura Libri Dece: Traducti de Latino in Vulgare Affigurati; Comentati e con Mirando Ordini Insigniti (in Italian; 1521), by Vitruvius Pollio, ed. by Cesare Cesariano (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Livre d'Architecture de Jacques Androuet, du Cerceau; Auquel Sont Contenues Diverses Ordonnances de Plants et Elevations de Bastiments pour Seigneurs, Gentilshommes, et Autres qui Voudront Bastir aux Champs (in French; Paris: J. Androuet, 1582), by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (page images and PDF transcription with commentary at Architectura)
• Livre d'Architecture de Jaques Androuet du Cerceau: Contenant les Plans et Dessaings de Cinquante Bastimens Tous Differens (in French; Paris: B. Prévost, 1559), by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (page images and PDF transcription with commentary at Architectura)
• Pain's British Palladio: or, The Builder's General Assistant (London: I. and J. Taylor, 1788), by William Pain (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Practical House Carpenter; or the Youth's Instructor (London: William Pain, 1792), by William Pain (page images at Wisconsin)
• Second Livre d'Architecture par Jaques Androuet du Cerceau: Contenant Plusieurs et Diverses Ordonances de Cheminees, Lucarnes, Portes, Fonteines, Puis, et Pavillons, Pour Enrichir Tant le Dedans que le Dehors de Tous Edifices (in French; Paris: A. Wechel, 1561), by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (page images with commentary at Architectura)
• A Treatise of Architecture: With Remarks and Observations, Necessary for Young People Who Would Apply Themselves to That Noble Art (London: R. Ware, 1732), by Sébastien Le Clerc, trans. by Ephraim Chambers, illust. by John Sturt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Ordonnance for the Five Kinds of Columns after the Method of the Ancients (translated from the 1683 original; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1993), by Claude Perrault, ed. by Alberto Pérez Gómez, trans. by Indra Kagis McEwen (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• The Genius of Architecture; or, The Analogy of That Art with Our Sensations (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1992), by Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Robin Middleton (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, in Ten Books, by Vitruvius Pollio, trans. by Joseph Gwilt (HTML at Chicago)
• Discours Historial de l'Antique et Illustre Cité de Nismes en la Gaule Narbonoise (in French; Lyon: G. Roville, 1559), by Jean Poldo d'Albenas (page images with commentary at Architectura)
• Useful Architecture (London: Robert Sayer, 1760), by William Halfpenny (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Country Gentleman's Pocket Companion, and Builder's Assistant, for Rural Decorative Architecture (second edition; London: Robert Sayer, 1756), by William Halfpenny and John Halfpenny (page images at Wisconsin)

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