UPENN Pre-March 書單

University of Pennsylvania
School of Design
Department of Architecture
Suggested Reading List, Summer 2011

In anticipation of your arrival for the fall 2010 semester, the Architecture faculty has compiled a reading list to
help you prepare for the program. Although you have all taken History of Architecture courses, the content
and approaches used in such courses can vary widely, and so we provide the enclosed list to help you fill in
gaps you may have missed in your previous education. We expect everyone to have a basic familiarity with
the major arguments and positions of contemporary architecture from the modern movement to the present
day, though we do not expect anyone to read all the books on this list.
History
Banham, Reyner Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, 2d ed. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1980)
Bergdoll, Barry. European Architecture 1750-1890 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
Colquhoun, Alan. Modern Architecture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
Rykwert, Joseph. The First Moderns: The Architects of the Eighteenth Century (MIT Press, 1980)
Contemporary Theory
Allen, Stan. Points and Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City (Princeton Architectural Press, 1999)
Ibelings, Hans. Supermodernism: Architecture in the Age of Globalization (Rotterdam: NAi, 1998)
Kwinter, Sanford. Far from Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture (Actar, 2008)
Lavin, Sylvia and Furjan, Helene, eds. Cribs Sheets: Notes on the Contemporary Architectural
Conversation, (New York: Monacelli, 2005)
Leatherbarrow, David. Uncommon Ground: Architecture, Technology and Topography (Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press, 2000)
Mau, Bruce, Massive Change (New York: Phaidon, 2004)
Reiser, Jesse, Atlas of Novel Tectonics (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006)
Spuybroek, Lars. Architecture of Variation (Thames & Hudson, 2009)
Sterling, Bruce. Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years (New York: Random House, 2003)
Tschumi, Bernard. Architecture and Disjunction (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996)
Witold Rybczynski, The Look of Architecture (Oxford Univ Press, 2003)
Ecology-Technology
Banham, Reyner. The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment. 2nd Edition. (Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press, 1984)
Braham, William and Jonathan Hale. Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory. (London:
Routledge, 2007)
Fernández-Galliano, Luis. Fire and Memory: On Architecture and Energy (MIT Press, 2000)
Kolarevic, Branko ed., Architecture in the Digital Age: Design and Manufacturing (New York: Spon, 2003)
MacDonnough, William, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things (North Point Press, NY:
2002).