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Textbooks

Frampton, Kenneth. Modern Architecture : A Critical History. 4th Ed., Rev., Expanded and Updated. ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2007.  [selected chapters, 260 p.]

 

Cohen, Jean-Louis. The Future of Architecture since 1889. London: Phaidon, 2012. [selected chapters, 197 p.] (Can be bought as compendium at Akademika bookstore or used at Amazon or ABE Books on the Internet).

 

 

Compendium [240 p -300 p]

 

Conrads, Ulrich (ed). Programs and Manifestos on 20th-Century Architecture . Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press: 1971. 18-25, 28-31, 34-40, 49-53, 56, 74-75 [25 p.]

 

Loos, Adolph. “Architecture”. On Architecture. Riverside:  Ariadne, 2002. 73-85 [13 p.]

Le Corbusier. Toward an Architecture. Translated by John Goodman. Angeles, Calif: Getty Research Institute, 2007. 131-144, 177-191 [29 p.]

 

Le Corbusier, “Ineffable Space”. New World of Space. New York: Raynal & Hitchcock, 1948. 7-9 [3 p.]

 

Venturi, Robert. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. 2nd ed. The Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture. New York: Museum of Modern Art in Association with the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, 2016. 16-19 [4 p.]

Nebois, Thierry, and Kunstbibliothek Berlin. Architectural Theory : From the Renaissance to the Present. K?ln: Taschen, 2006. 790-801 [6 p.]

 

Rossi, Aldo. The Architecture of the City. Oppositions Books. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1982. 21-24, 27 [5 p.]

 

Jencks, Charles. The Language of Post-modern Architecture. 2th Ed., [rev. Enl.]. ed. London: Academy Editions, 1978. 9-10 [2 p.]

 

Tschumi, Bernard. Architecture and Disjunction. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1994. 207-214 [7 p.]

 

Colomina, Beatriz, and Mark Wigley. Are We Human? : Notes on an Archaeology of Design. Zürich: Lars Müller, 2016. 147-161, 167-177 [24 p.]

Colomina, Beatriz. Privacy and Publicity : Modern Architecture as Mass Media. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1994. 233-281 [49 p.]

 

Vidler, Anthony. The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely [excerpt]. Hays, K. Michael. Architecture Theory since 1968. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1998. 746-757 [8 p.]

 

Damisch, Hubert. “Against the slope”. Noah's Ark. Essays on Architecture . Cambridge/London: MIT Press, 2016. 177-211 [35 p.]

 

Benjamin, Walter. “The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction”. Illustrations. Essays and Reflections. New York: Schocken Books, 2007. 217-251 [35 p]

 

Curtis, William J.R. Modern Architecture since 1900. 3rd ed. London: Phaidon, 1996. 275-285, 305-327, 417-435, 513-529 [72 p.]

 

 

Articles available electronically via the University Library (Free access from computers connected to UiO's network): ca 300 p

 

Brooks, H. Allen. "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Destruction of the Box." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 38, no. 1 (1979): 7-14.

 

Simmel, Georg. “The Metropolis and Mental Life”. The Sociology of Georg Simmel. Glencoe, Ill: Free Press, 1950: 409-424.

 

Hartoonian, Gevork. "Mies Van Der Rohe: The Genealogy of Column and Wall." Journal of Architectural Education 42, no. 2 (1989): 43-50.

Oechslin, Werner. "Les Cinq Points D'une Architecture Nouvelle." Assemblage, no. 4 (1987): 83-93.

 

Jara, Cynthia. "Adolf Loos's Raumplan Theory." Journal of Architectural Education 48, no. 3 (1995): 185-201.

 

Jannière, Hélène. "Distilled Avant-Garde Echoes: Word and Image in Architectural Periodicals of the 1920s and 1930s." Architectural Histories 4, no. 1 (2016): Np.

 

Tournikiotis, Panayotis. "Le Corbusier, Giedion, and the Villa Savoye: From Consecration to Preservation of Architecture." Future Anterior 4, no. 2 (2007): Xii-11.

 

"THE CIAM CHARTER OF ATHENS, 1933: OUTCOME OF A SIMILAR EFFORT." Ekistics 16, no. 95 (1963): 263-67.

 

Bullock, Nicholas. "4000 Dwellings from a Paris Factory: Le Procédé Camus and State Sponsorship of Industrialised Housing in the 1950s." Architectural Research Quarterly 13, no. 1 (2009): 59-72.

 

Vossoughian, Nader. "Standardization Reconsidered: 'Normierung' in and after Ernst Neufurt's 'Bauentwurfshlere'." Grey Room, no. 54 (2014): 34-55.

Cohen, Jean-Louis. "Le Corbusier’s Modulor and the Debate on Proportion in France." Architectural Histories 2, no. 1 (2014): Np.

 

Lambert, Phyllis. ""Stimmung" at Seagram: Philip Johnson Counters Mies Van Der Rohe." Grey Room, no. 20 (2005): 38-59.

 

Friedman, Alice T. "Eero Saarinen: Modern Architecture for the American Century." Places Journal, no. 2010 (2010): Places Journal, 2010, Issue 2010. Np.

 

Avermaete, Tom. "'Comment Vivre Ensemble': Imagining and Designing Community in the Work of Candilis-Josic-Woods." Building Material, no. 16 (2007): 70-75.

 

Banham, Reyner. "The New Brutalism." October, 2011, 19-28.

 

Wigley, Mark. "Network Fever." Grey Room 4 (2001): 82-122.

Doxiadis, Constantinos.“The city(II): Ecumenopolis, world-city of tomorrow”, Impact of Science on Society, v.19, no.2, April - June (1969):179-193. [Doxiadis.org]

Szacka, Léa-Catherine. "Historicism Versus Communication: The Basic Debate of the 1980 Biennale." Architectural Design 81, no. 5 (2011): 98-105.

 

Brown, Denise Scott. "Learning From Pop." Journal of Popular Culture 7, no. 2 (1973): 387-401.

 

Jameson, Frederic. "Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism." New Left Review 146 (1984): 53-92.

 

Wigley, Mark “Deconstructivist Architecture”. Wigley, Mark and Johnson Philip, Deconstructivist architecture. New York: The Museum of Modern, 1988. 10-20 [MoMA Archive]

Koolhaas, R. "Junkspace." October, no. 100 (2002): 175-90.

Deleuze, Gilles. "Postscript on the Societies of Control." October 59 (1992): 3-7.

 

Friedman, Alice T. "American Glamour 2.0: Architecture, Spectacle, and Social Media." Consumption Markets & Culture 20, no. 6 (2017): 575-84.

 

Picon, Antoine. "Learning From Utopia." Journal of Architectural Education 67, no. 1 (2013): 17-23.

Picon, Antoine. "Architecture and Mathematics: Between Hubris and Restraint." Architectural Design 81, no. 4 (2011): 28-35.

Picon, Antoine. "Architecture, Innovation and Tradition." Architectural Design 83, no. 1 (2013): 128-33.

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