Readings

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The following works cover the topics and issues addressed by this course. It is presented here as a guide to additional reading for those whose interests extend beyond the basic material covered in the course, and it is intended to serve as a basic reference for papers assigned during the semester. Items denoted by an asterisk are listed as reading assignments in the calendar.

Theory: Phenomenology, Sense of Place, Anthropological Perspective

Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. Chicago: The Univ. of Chicago Press, 1958.
Bourdier, Jean-Paul, and Nezar Alsayyad, eds. Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition: Cross-cultural Perspectives. Lanham, MD: Univ. Press of America, 1989.
*Crowe, Norman. Nature and the Idea of a Man-made World. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.
Eliade, Mircea. The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion. Trans. By Willard R. Trask. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace & and Jovanovich, 1959.
Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Society. Trans. by John Wilkinson. New York: Random House, 1964.
Hall, Edward T. Beyond Culture. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1976.
Hall, Edward T. The Hidden Dimension. New York: Anchor Books, 1982.
Harries, Karsten. The Ethical Function of Architecture. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.
Jackson, J. B. The Necessity for Ruins and Other Topics. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1980.
Lawlor, Anthony. The Temple in the House: Finding the Sacred in Everyday Architecture. New York: Putnam, 1994.
Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture. New York: Rizzoli, 1980.
Seamon, David, ed. Dwelling, Seeing, and Designing. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1993.
Sennett, Richard. The Fall of Public Man. New York: Norton, 1992.
*Crowe, Norman. "The Influence of Historical Scholarship on Design" in The Green Braid: Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy, and Equity. Edited by Kim Tanzer and Rafael Longoria. New York: Rutledge, 2007.
Walter, Eugene Victor. Placeways: A Theory of the Human Environment. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Ecomomics

*Edwards, Andres R. The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift. Gabriola, BC: New Society Publishers, 2005.
*Hawken, Paul, Amory B. Lovins, and L, Hunter Lovins. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1999.
Wessels, Tom. The Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future. Lebanon, NH: Univ. Press of New England, 2006.

Regionalism in Architecture

Eldredge, Niles. Dominion. New York: H. Holt, 1995.
Hawkes, Dean, and Wayne Forster. Energy Efficient Buildings: Architecture, Engineering, and Environment. New York: Norton, 2002.
Hemenway, Priya. Divine Proportion: � (Phi) in Art, Nature, and Science. New York: Sterling Publishing, 2005.
Jacobs, Jane M. "Tradition is (not) Modern: Deterritorializing Globalization," in The End of Tradition? Edited by Nezar AlSayyad. London: Routledge, 2004.
Jones, David Lloyd. Architecture and the Environment: Bioclimatic Building Design. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1998.
Lenssen, Nicholas, and David Malin Roodman. "Making Better Buildings," State of the World: 1995, Edited by Linda Starke. New York: Norton, 1995.
March, Lionel. Architectonics of Humanism: Essays on Number in Architecture. Chichester: Academy Editions, 1998.
Orr, David. The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002.
Seamon, David, ed. Dwelling, Seeing, and Designing: Toward a Phenomenological Ecology. Albany: State Univ. of New York, 1993.
Steele, James. Architecture for a Changing World. London: Academy Editions, 1992.
Smith, Jonathan Z. To Take Place: Toward Theory in Ritual. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1987.
Wilson, Chris. Facing Southwest: The Life and Houses of John Gaw Meem. New York: Norton, 2001.
Wilson, Chris. The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1997.

Practice: Principles and Technology of Passive Energy Design

*Barnett, Dianna Lopez, and William D. Browning. A Primer on Sustainable Building. Snowmass, CO: Rocky Mountain Institute, 1995.
Bartuska, Tom J., and Gerald L. Young. The Built Environment: A Creative Inquiry into Design and Planning. Menlo Park, CA: Crisp Publication, 1994.
* The European Commission, Directorate General XVII for Energy and the Architect's Council of Europe. A Green Vitruvius: Principles and Practices of Sustainable Architectural Design. London, James & James,1999.
*Croxton Collaborative Architects and The National Audubon Society. Audubon House: Building the Environmentally Responsible, Energy-Efficient Office. New York: J. Wiley, 1994.
Fathy, Hassan. Natural Energy and Vernacular Architecture: Principles and Examples with Reference to Hot Arid Climates. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1986.
*Givoni, Baruch. Passive and Low Energy Cooling of Buildings. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994.
Robert, and Maria Wall. Sustainable Solar Housing 1: Strategies and Solutions. London and Sterling, VA: Earthscan & International Energy Agency, 2007.
Robert, and Maria Wall. Sustainable Solar Housing1: Exemplary Buildings and Technologies. London and Sterling, VA: Earthscan & International Energy Agency, 2007.
*Hawkes, Dean. The Environmental Tradition: Studies in the Architecture of Environment. London: E & FN Spon, 1996.
*Kwok, Alison G., and Walter T. Grondzik. The Green Studio Handbook: Environmental Strategies for Schematic Design. Oxford: The Architectural Press, 2007.
Lane, Jonathan. Energy-Efficient Housing Design: A Combined Approach. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1986.
*McDonough, William, and Michael Braungart. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. New York: North Point Press, 2002.
*Watson, Donald, and Kenneth Labs. Climatic Building Design: Energy-Efficient Building Principles and Practice. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983.
*Watson, Donald, ed. The Energy Design Handbook. Washington, D.C.: The American Institute of Architects Press, 1993.
Wright, David, and Dennis A. Andrejko. Passive Solar Architecture: Logic and Beauty. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1982.

Practice: Urbanism, Site Planning, and Principles of Sustainable Design

Calthorpe, Peter. The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.
Dutton, John A. New American Urbanism: Re-forming the Suburban Metropolis. Milano: Skira, 2000.
Fein, Albert. Fredrick Law Olmsted and the American Environmental Tradition. New York: G. Braziller, 1972.
Kunstler, James Howard. Home from Nowhere: Remaking our Everyday World for the Twenty-first Century. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.
Kunstler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-made Landscape.  New York, Simon and Schuster, 1994.
Lozano, Eduardo E. Community Design and the Culture of Cities: The Crossroad and the Wall. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990.
McHarg, Ian L. Design with Nature. New York: J. Wiley, 1992.
Sennett, Richard. The Fall of Public Man. New York: Norton, 1974.
Sorkin, Michael. Local Code: The Constitution of a City at 42° N Latitude. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.
Van der Ryn, Sim, and Stuart Cowan. Ecological Design. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1996.
Yeang, Ken. Designing with Nature: The Ecological Basis for Architectural Design. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Environmentalism and Environmental Science and History

Allaby, Michael. Basics of Environmental Science. London: Routledge, 1996.
Brown, Lester R., Hal Kane, and David Malin Roodman. Vital Signs 1994: The Trends that are Shaping Our Future. New York: Norton, 1994.
Starke, Linda, ed. State of the World: 1995: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society. New York: Norton, 1995.
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962, 1994.
Eisenberg, Evan. The Ecology of Eden. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
Eldridge, Niles. Dominion. New York: H. Holt, 1995.
Evernden, Neil. The Natural Alien: Humankind and Environment. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1993.
Gore, Al. Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.
Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 2006.
Goudie, Andrew. The Human Impact on the Natural Environment. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986.
Hawkes, Jacquetta. The Atlas of Early Man. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976.
Martin, Calvin Luther. In the Spirit of the Earth: Rethinking History and Time. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1992.
McLuhan, T.C. The Way of the Earth: Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Postman, Neil. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. New York: Vintage Books, Random House, 1993.
Devall, Bill, and George Sessions. Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1985.
Weatherford, Jack. Savages and Civilization: Who will Survive? New York: Crown, 1994.

Environmental Ethics

Armstrong, Susan J., and Richard G. Botzler, eds. Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence. New York: McGraw-Hill,1993.
Bormann, F. Herbert, and Stephen R. Kellert, eds. Ecology, Economics, Ethics: the Broken Circle. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1991.

References for Urban History and Special Issues in Urbanism

Benevolo, Leonardo. The History of the City. Trans. By Geoffrey Culverwell. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988.
Duany, Andres, and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Robrt Alminana. The New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2003.
Owens, E.J. The City in the Greek and Roman World. London: Routledge, 1992.
Sennett, Richard. Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization. New York: Norton, 1994.
Van Pelt, Jan, and Carroll William Westfall. Architectural Principles in the Age of Historicism, New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1991.