Barbara and Leonard Littman Architecture Library

List of donated books

Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Aga Khan Award for Architecture: awards 1989. Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Geneva, Switzerland, 1989.

Alberti, Leon Battista.On the art of building in ten books.MIT Press, 1988.

Alexander, Christopher. Notes on the synthesis of form. Harvard University Press, 1964.

Allen, Edward. Architect's studio companion: technical guidelines for preliminary design. Wiley, 1989.

American Institute of Architects. American architecture of the 1980s. American Institute of Architects Press, 1990.

American Institute of Architects. Annual of American architecture. American Institute of Architects Press, 1981.

Architects' Small House Service Bureau of the United States. Your future home. American Institute of Architects Press, 1992.

Armstrong, Leslie. Little house. MacMillan, 1979.

Arnell, Peter. James Stirling: buildings and projects, James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates. Rizzoli, 1984.

Arnheim, Rudolf. Art and visual perception: a psychology of the creative eye. University of California Press, 1974.

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. Architectural schools in North America. Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 1976.

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture / American Wood Council. ACSA / American Wood Council . . . annual student design competition (1991-92, Home EC: a study in affordable housing). Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 1991-92.

Atkin, William Wilson. Architectural presentation techniques. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1976.

Bainbridge, David A. Village Homes' solar house designs: a collection of 43 energy-conscious house designs, Rodale Press, 1979.

Baker, Geoffrey H. Le Corbusier: early works by Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris. Academy Editions, 1987.

Banham, Reyner. Age of the masters: a personal view of modern architecture. Harper and Row, 1975.

Banham, Reyner. Architecture of the well-tempered environment University of Chicago Press 1984

Banham, Reyner. Theory and design in the first machine age. MIT Press, 1980.

Barnett, Jonathan. Elusive city: five centuries of design, ambition, and miscalculation. Harper and Row, 1986.

Berg, Donald J. Country patterns, 1841-1883: a sampler of American country home and landscape designs from original 19th century sources, Main Street Press, 1986.

Block, Jean F. Uses of Gothic: planning and building the campus of the University of Chicago, 1892-1932. University of Chicago Library, 1983.

Boericke, Art. Handmade houses: a guide to the woodbutcher's art. Scrimshaw Press, 1973.

Brett, James. Looking into houses: 60 solutions to design problems. Whitney Library of Design, 1976.

Brooklyn Museum. New Brooklyn Museum: the master plan competition. Rizzoli, 1988.

Brooks, H. Allen.Writings on Wright: selected comment on Frank Lloyd Wright. MIT Press, 1981.

Burden, Ernest E. Living barns: how to find and restore a barn of your own. New York Graphic Society, 1977.

Camesasca, Ettore. History of the house. Putnam, 1971.

Chamberlain, Samuel. Historic Deerfield: houses and interiors. Hastings House, 1965.

Chamberlain, Samuel. Open house in New England. Bonanza Books, 1948.

Chang, Amos Ih Tiao. Tao of architecture. Princeton University Press, 1981.

Chatani, Masahiro. Origami architecture: American houses: pre-Colonial to present.   Kodansha, 1988.

Ching, Frank. Architectural graphics. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975.

Ching, Frank. Architecture, form, space, and order. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979.

Ching, Frank. Building construction illustrated. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975.

Ching, Frank. Building construction illustrated. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991.

Clark, Roger. Precedents in architecture. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985.

Cnudde, Catherine. Stones and marbles of Wallonia. Aux Archives d'Architecture Moderne, 1988.

Cole, Doris Eleanor. Raymond, architect. Art Alliance Press, 1981.

Collins, George Rosenborough. Camillo Sitte: the birth of modern city planning. Rizzoli, 1986.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Legacy from the past: a portfolio of 88 original Williamsburg buildings. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1971.

Conrad, Peter. Art and the city: views and versions of New York. Oxford University Press, 1984.

Conran, Terence. Bed and bath book. Crown Publishers, 1978.

Constant Corbin, Patricia Summer cottages and castles: scenes from the good life E. P. Dutton 1983 ant, Caroline. Palladio guide. Princeton Architectural Press, 1985.

Corbin, Patricia. Summer cottages and castles: scenes from the good life. E. P. Dutton , 1983.

Coulton, John James. Ancient Greek architects at work: problems of structure and design. Cornell University Press, 1977.

Crosbie, Michael J. Jersey Devil design/build book. Peregrine Smith Books, 1985.

Currier, Richard L. City planning in ancient times. Lerner Publications, 1977.

Da Costa, Beverley. Historic houses of America, open to the public. American Heritage Publishing Company, 1971.

Davis, Sam. Form of housing. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977.

De Chiara, Joseph. Time-saver standards for residential development. McGraw-Hill , 1984.

de Wit, Wim. Louis Sullivan: the function of ornament. W. W. Norton, 1986.

Diamonstein, Barbarlee. American architecture now. Rizzoli, 1980.

Dickinson, Duo. Adding on: an artful guide to affordable residential additions. McGraw-Hill, 1985.

Dietsch, Deborah. Architecture in the public realm (Precis, vol. 3). Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, 1981.

Elemond Periodici. Lotus international (#30). Elemond Periodici, 1981.

Elemond Periodici. Lotus international (#40). Elemond Periodici, 1984.

Emanuel, Muriel. Contemporary architects. St. Martin's Press, 1980.

Emmerling, Mary Ellisor. American country, a style and source book. C. N. Potter, 1980.

Fishman, Robert. Urban utopias in the twentieth century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier. MIT Press, 1982.

Forman, Henry. Chandlee Early Nantucket and its whale houses. Hastings House, 1966.

Frampton, Kenneth. Modern architecture: a critical history. Thames and Hudson, 1985.

Frampton, Kenneth. Philip Johnson, processes: the Glass House, 1949, and the AT&T corporate headquarters, 1978. Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1978.

Frampton, Kenneth. Tadao Ando. Museum of Modern Art, 1991.

Frazier, Nancy. Louis Sullivan and the Chicago school. Crescent Books, 1991.

Gans, Herbert J. Levittowners: ways of life and politics in a new suburban community. Columbia University Press, 1982.

Garner, Philippe. Eileen Gray: design and architecture, 1878-1976. Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1993.

Gayle, Margot. Cast-iron architecture in New York: a photographic survey. Dover, 1974.

Gaylord, R. Bruce. Picture book of Greenwich Village. Carol Publishers, 1991.

Geddes, Robert. Principles and precedents: Geddes, Brecher, Qualls, Cunningham (Process architecture # 62). Process architecture, 1985.

Gilliatt, Mary. Kitchens and dining rooms. Viking, 1970.

Goodovitch, I. M. Architecturology: an interim report G. Witterborn, 1967.

Green, Floyd. You can renovate your own home: a step-by-step guide to major interior improvements. Doubleday, 1980.

Greiff, Constance M. Great houses from the pages of the magazine Antiques. Pyne Press, 1973.

Gropius, Walter. Scope of total architecture. Collier Books, 1962.

Grow, Lawrence. Old house book of cottages and bungalows. Main Street Press, 1987.

Halse, Albert O. Architectural rendering: the techniques of contemporary presentation. McGraw-Hill, 1972.

Haneman, John Theodore. Pictoral encyclopedia of historic architectural plans, details, and elements. Dover, 1984.

Haney, Robert. Woodstock handmade houses. Ballantine Books, 1974.

Harmon, Allen Jackson. Guide to home remodeling. Grosset and Dunlap, 1972.

Harris, Bill. New York at night. Bramhall House, 1985.

Harvey, John Hooper. Master builders: architecture in the Middle Ages. McGraw-Hill, 1971.

Hayden, Dolores. Redesigning the American dream: the future of housing, work, and family life. W. W. Norton, 1984.

Hersey, George L. Lost meaning of classical architecture: speculations on ornament from Vitruvius to Venturi. MIT Press, 1988.

Hewitt, Mark A. Architect and the American country house, 1890-1940. Yale University Press, 1990.

Heyer, Paul. Architects on architecture: new directions in America. Walker, 1966.

Hochman, Elaine S. Architects of fortune: Mies van der Rohe and the third reich. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989.

Hollingsworth, Mary. Architecture of the 20th century. Exeter Books, 1988.

Horvat-Pintaric, Vera. Vienna 1900: the architecture of Otto Wagner. Dorset Press, 1989.

Hotton, Peter. So you want to fix up an old house. Little, Brown 1979.

House and Garden. Complete guide to interior decoration. Simon and Schuster, 1970.

Howard, Ebenezer, Sir. Garden cities of to-morrow. MIT Press, 1965.

Irace, Fulvio. Emerging skylines: the new American skyscrapers. Whitney Library of Design, 1990.

Irvine, Chippy. Town house. Bantam Books, 1988.

Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass frontier: the suburbanization of the United States. Oxford University Press, 1985.

Jacobsen, Hugh Newell. Hugh Newell Jacobsen, architect. American Institute of Architects Press, 1988.

Jacobsen, Hugh Newell. Hugh Newell Jacobsen, architect: recent work, 1988-1993. Rockport Publishers, 1994.

Jencks, Charles. Prince, the architects, and new wave monarchy. Rizzoli, 1988.

Kaplan, Peter B. High on New York. H. N. Abrams, 1986.

Kassler, Elizabeth Bauer. Modern gardens and the landscape. Museum of Modern Art, 1984.

Kilham, Walter Harrington. Raymond Hood, architect: form through function in the American skyscraper. Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1974.

Kimball, Fiske. Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early Republic Dover, 1966.

Kinney, Jean Brown. 47 creative homes that started as bargain buildings. Funk and Wagnalls, 1974.

Klotz, Heinrich. History of postmodern architecture. MIT Press, 1988.

Knight, Robert Louis. AutoCAD quick reference. Que Corporation, 1991.

Kostof, Spiro. Architect: chapters in the history of the profession. Oxford University Press, 1986.

Kostof, Spiro. History of architecture: settings and rituals. Oxford University Press, 1985.

Lasdun, Denys. Architecture in an age of scepticism: a practitioners' anthology. Oxford University Press, 1984.

Le Corbusier. 35 works by Le Corbusier: paintings, drawings, collages, and sculptures. Sotheby's, 1987.

Le Corbusier. City of to-morrow and its planning. MIT Press, 1971.

Le Corbusier. Towards a new architecture. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1982.

Lee, Robert. Cities and churches. Westminster Press, 1962.

Lobell, John. Between silence and light: spirit in the architecture of Louis I. Kahn. Shambhala, 1985.

Loos, Adolf. Spoken into the void: collected essays, 1897-1900. Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, 1982.

Lowry, Bates. Building a national image: architectural drawings for the American democracy, 1789-1912. National Building Museum, 1985.

Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir. Letters of Edwin Lutyens to his wife Lady Emily. Collins, 1985.

Maccaulay, David. Pyramid. Houghton Mifflin, 1975.

Mason, Bernard. Sterling Cabins, cottages, and summer homes. A. S. Barnes, 1947.

Maxwell, Robert. Sweet disorder and the carefully careless: theory and criticism in architecture. Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.

McCommons, Richard E. Guide to architecture schools in North America: members and affiliates of the ACSA. Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 1989.

McGuinness, William J. Mechanical and electrical equipment for buildings. Wiley, 1986.

Mitchell, William. John Logic of architecture: design, computation, and cognition. MIT, Press 1990.

Mitz, Rick. Apartment book. Harmony Books, 1979.

Moos, Stanislaus. von Le Corbusier, elements of a synthesis. MIT Press, 1979.

Museum of Finnish Architecture. Profiles: pioneering women architects from Finland. Museum of Finnish Architecture, 1983.

Negroponte, Nicolas. Architecture machine. MIT Press, 1970.

Oehler, Mike. $50 and up underground book. Mole Publishing Company, 1981.

Palladio, Andrea. Four books of architecture. Dover, 1965.

Pevsner, Nikolas, Sir. Pioneers of modern design, from William Morris to Walter Gropius. Penguin 1975.

Piano, Renzo. Renzo Piano and Building Workshop: buildings and projects, 1971-1989. Rizzoli, 1989.

Plumb, Barbara. Houses architects live in. Viking, 1977.

Pool, Mary Jane. House and garden's Book of remodeling: 55 real-life case histories. Viking, 1978.

Porter, Tom. Manual of graphic techniques 4: for architects, graphic designers, and artists. Scribner, 1985.

Portoghesi, Paolo. After modern architecture. Rizzoli, 1982.

Poynor, Rick. Nigel Coates: the city in motion. Rizzoli, 1990.

Pratt, Dorothy. Guide to early American houses. McGraw-Hill, 1956.

Quantrill, Malcolm. Alvar Aalto: a critical study. New Amsterdam, 1989.

Raker, Daniel. Inside AutoCAD: a teaching guide to the AutoCAD microprocessor design and drafting program. New Riders Publications, 1989.

Rasbach, Roger. Provident planner: a blueprint for homes, communities, and lifestyles. Walker, 1976.

Rasmussen, Steen Eiler. London, the unique city. MIT Press, 1982.

Redstone, Louis G. Art in architecture. McGraw-Hill, 1968.

Reif, Rita. Home, it takes more than money. Quadrangle, 1975.

Richards, J. M. Who's who in architecture: from 1400 to the present day. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1977.

Richardson, Margaret. Craft of architects. Rizzoli, 1983.

Risebero, Blll. Modern architecture and design: an alternative history. MIT Press, 1983.

Robertson, Howard. Travels in modern architecture 1925-1930. Architectural Association, 1989.

Rowe, Peter G. Design thinking. MIT Press, 1987.

Royal Barry Wills Associates. More houses for good living. Architectural Book Club, 1968.

Salvadori, Mario George. Art of construction: projects and principles for beginning engineers and architects. Chicago Review Press, 1990.

Salvadori, Mario George. Mathematics in architecture. Prentice-Hall, 1968.

Schwartz, Frederic. Mother's house: the evolution of Vanna Venturi's house in Chestnut Hill. Rizzoli, 1992.

Scully, Vincent. Architecture of Robert Venturi. University of New Mexico Press, 1989.

Scully, Vincent. Joseph Architecture: the natural and the manmade. St. Martin's Press, 1991.

Shanor, Rebecca Read. City that never was: two hundred years of fantastic and fascinating plans that might have changed the face of New York City. Viking, 1988.

 Shearman, John K. G. Mannerism. Penguin, 1967.

 Shelter Publications, Shelter Shelter Publications, 1973.

 Shelter Publications. Shelter II Shelter Publications, 1978.

Shipway, Verna (Cook). Mexican homes of today Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1964.

Shoshkes, Ellen. Design process. Whitney Library of Design, 1989.

Smithson, Alison. Team 10 meetings: 1953-1984. Rizzoli, 1991.

Soleri, Paolo. Bridge between matter and spirit is matter becoming spirit: the arcology of Paolo Soleri. Anchor Books, 1973.

Steele, WIlliam P. Backyard book: ideas and resources for outdoor living. Viking, 1988.

Stern, Robert A. M. Pride of place: building the American dream. Houghton, Mifflin 1986.

Stern, Robert A. M. Robert A. M. Stern, 1965-1980: toward a modern architecture after modernism. Rizzoli, 1987.

Summerson, John Newenham, Sir. Classical language of architecture. MIT Press, 1966.

Summerson, John Newenham, Sir. Classical language of architecture. MIT Press, 1966.

Summerson, John Newenham, Sir. Classical language of architecture. MIT Press, 1966.

Summerson, John Newenham, Sir. Heavenly mansions, and other essays on architecture W. W. Norton, 1963.

Szenasy, Susan S. Home: exciting new designs for today's lifestyles. Macmillan, 1985.

Tafuri, Manfredo. Architecture and utopia: design and capitalist development. MIT Press, 1976.

Taylor, Joshua Charles. Learning to look: a handbook for the visual arts University of Chicago Press, 1981.

Taylor, Lisa Housing: symbol, structure, site. Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1990.

Thorndike, Joseph Jacobs. Magnificent builders and their dream houses. American Heritage Publishing Company, 1978.

Time-Life Books. Old house. Time-Life Books, 1979.

Torre, Susana. Women in American architecture: a historic and contemporary perspective. Whitney Library of Design, 1977.

University of Illinois. Chicago tapes: transcript of the conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago, November 7-8, 1986. Rizzoli, 1987.

Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown. Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown: works and projects, 1959-1985. Karl Kramer, 1986.Venturi, Robert. Learning from Las Vegas: the forgotten symbolism of architectural form. MIT Press, 1977.

Venturi, Robert. View from the Campidoglio: selected essays, 1953-1984. Harper and Row, 1984.

 Vitruvius Pollio. Vitruvius: the ten books on architecture. Dover, 1960.

Walker, Les. Designing houses: an illustrated guide. Overlook Press, 1976.

Weidert, Werner. Private houses, an international survey. Praeger, .

West, Trudy. Timber-frame house in England. Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1971.

Whitehead, Russell F. Early homes of Massachusetts: from material originally published as the White pine series of architectural monographs. Arno Press, 1977.

Whyte, William Hollingsworth. Social life of small urban spaces. Conservation Foundation, 1980.

Wills, Royal Barry.. Houses for good living. Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1946.

Wiltshire, Stephen. Floating cities: Venice, Amsterdam, Leningrad, and Moscow. Summit Books, 1991.

 Wing, Charles. From the walls in. Little, Brown 1979.

 Wittkower, Rudolf. Palladio and English Palladianism. Thames and Hudson, 1983.

Wright, Gwendolyn. Building the dream: a social history of housing in America. MIT Press, 1983.

Wright, Gwendolyn Moralism and the model home: domestic architecture and cultural conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913. University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Wurman, Richard Saul. NYC access. Access Publications, 1984.