Issues of Landscape and Urbanism

Buildings that extend as infrastructure or minimal interventions that modify an existing fabric. Design that focuses on an issue of urban architecture such as the social spaces between sidewalk and interior, or strategies for multiple, repeated units, or issues of scale/size in the city, or how two contrasting programs might intersect. Buildings that explore a specific issue of urbanism or landscape such as multiple scales of motion, marking the city, bringing the natural world into the city, defining urban corridors, edges, or nodes. Buildings that use strategies of landscape architecture such a composing continuous paths and views, manipulating the ground plane, using plants and natural materials, engaging natural systems.

Architects: Steven Holl, Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano, Rem Koolhaas, Stan Allen, Alvero Siza, James Stirling, Aldo van Eyck, Venturi & Scott-Brown, Erich Mendelsohn, Gunnar Asplund, Antonio Gaudí, Benjamin Thompson, Hans Hollein

Books and Articles:

Allen, Smout. Augmented Landscapes Pamphlet Architecture: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007.

Allen, Stan. "From Object to Field." Architectural Design 67, no. 5-6 (1997): 24-32.

———. Points and Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City. NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999.

Borden, Iain, ed. The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2000.

Boyarsky, Nicholas, and Peter Lang, eds. Urban Flashes Asia. London: AD, 2003.

Boyer, M. Christine. The City of Collective Memory. Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 1996.

Brouwer, Joke, Philip Brookman, and Arien Mulder, eds. Transurbanism. Rotterdam: V2 Publishing/NAi 2002.

Burns, Carol, and Andrea Kahn, eds. Site Matters. London: MIT Press, 2005.

Chow, Renee. Suburban Space: The Fabric of Dwelling. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Duany, Andres, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Robert Alminana. New Civic Art. Ny: Rizzoli, 2003.

Foucault, Michael. " Of Other Spaces." Diacritics 16, no. no. 1 (1986): 22-27.

Gandelsonas, Mario. The Urban Text. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991.

Gans, Deborah, ed. Extreme Sites: The 'Greening' of Brownfield, Architectural Design. London: Academic Press, 2004.

Garcia, Mark, ed. Architextiles, Architectural Design. London: Academic Press, 2007.

Halprin, Lawrence. Cities. NY: Reinhold, 1963.

Holl, Steven. Edge of a City. NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1991.

Holl, Steven, and Lebbeus Woods. Steven Holl: Architecture Spoken. NY: Rizzoli, 2007.

Koolhaas, Rem. Delirious New York. NY: Monacelli, 1997.

Kwon, Miwon. One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2001.

Laporte, Dominique. History of Shit. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2000.

Latour, Bruno, and Dennis Weibel, eds. Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2005.

Leatherbarrow, David. The Roots of Architectural Invention: Site, Enclosure, Materials. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

———. Topographical Stories. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Lynch, Kevin. The Image of the City. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Technology Press, 1960.

Mitchell, William. E-Topia: "Urban Life, Jim - but Not as We Know It". Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1999.

Rossi, Aldo. The Architecture of the City. Translated by Diane Ghirardo and Joan Ockman, Oppositions Books. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982.

Ruby, Ilka, ed. The Challenge of Suburbia, Architectural Design. London: Academic Press, 2005.

Rykwert, Joseph. The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1988.

Sadler, Simon. The Situationist City. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1999.

Sennett, Richard. The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities. NY: Knopf, 1990.

Shane, David Grahame, ed. Sensing the 21st Century City: The Net City Close-up and Remote, Architectural Design. London: Academic Press, 2005.

Spens, Michael, ed. Landscape, Architectural Design. London: Academic Press, 2007.

Topos. Urban Squares: Recent European Promenades, Squares, and City Centres.

Upton, Dell. Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.

Venturi, Robert. Complexity and Contradiction. NY: Museum of Modern Art, 2002 (1966).

Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott-Brown, and Steve Izenour. Learning from Las Vegas. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1977.

Whyte, William Hollingsworth. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. L.A.: Direct Cinema Ltd., 1988.

Williams, Rosalind. Notes on the Underground. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.