Recommended Software for Research
BiblioExpress is a freeware for making bibliographies. The ‘industry’ standard is Endnote.
Infomagic is a free note-taking software, and would help you to keep your research notes in a digital format. The ‘industry’ standards are Infoselect and Zoot. You may also want to try Microsoft Onenote. Making a Bibliography
Here is a list of the most used databases and other sources you need to use for creating a bibliography about your building. You will have to learn to check them in a number of ways: sometimes using the name of your building, sometimes using the architect’s name etc.
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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Bibliography of the History of Art JSTOR:
World History Collection LexisNexis Academic
Google Scholar You must also check the books and articles that you find from these searches as they
will also contain bibliographies.
List of Buildings (you may propose your own with instructor permission)
Charles Eames, Eames House, California 1945-1949
Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen, Entenza House, California 1945-49
Hassan Fathy, New Gourna Housing, 1948
Bruce Groff, Bavinger House, Norman Oklahama 1955
Alvar Aalto, Pensions Institute, Helsinki, Finland, 1952-56
Alvar Aalto, House of Culture, Helsinki, Finland 1955-58
Pierre Koenig, Bailey House-Case Study House 21, Los Angeles 1956-58
Frank Lloyd Wright, Marin Civic Center, San Rafael California 1957
Frank Lloyd Wright, Winkler and Goetsch House, Okemos, Michigan 1939
Felix Candela, Los Manantiales, Mexico 1958
Eero Saarinen, Dulles Airport, 1958-1962
Geoffrey Bawa, Bawa House, Sri Lanka 1958-1968
Aldo van Eyck, Hubertus House, Amsterdam 1959
Edward D. Stone, American Embassy, New Delhi
Gordon Bunshaft, Chase Manhattan Bank, New York 1961
Gordon Bunshaft, Beinecke Library, New Haven, CT 1963
Gottfried Böhm, Pilgrimage Church, Germany 1962
Zvi Hecker, Spiral Apartment House, Israel 1963
Le Corbusier, Church at Firminy, 1963
Le Corbusier, Millowner Association, Ahmedabad, India 1954
Le Corbusier, Shodan House, Ahmedabad, India 1956
Le Corbusier, Villa DeMandrot, Toulon 1931
Le Corbusier, Carpenter Center, Cambridge, MA, 1963
Kevin Roche, Dinkeloo, Ford Foundation Building, 1963-68
Marcel Breuer, Whitney Museum, New York 1966
Oscar Niemeyer, Strick House, Santa Monica 1968
James Stirling, History Faculty Library, Cambridge University 1968
James Stirling and Michael Wilford Associates, Sackler Museum, Harvard University, 1985
Philip Johnson, Robert C. Wiley House, New Canaan, CT. 1952-53
Hermann Hertzberger, Central Beheer, Netherlands, 1968-1972
Carlo Scarpa, Brion-Vega Cemetery, Italy 1972
Carlo Scarpa, Ottolenghi House, Verona, 1974
John Portman, Hyatt Regency Hotel, San Francisco 1973
Jose Louis Sert, Miro Foundation 1974
I M. Pei, Christian Science Center, Boston 1974
I.M. Pei, Harbor Towers, Boston, MA 1971
Mies van der Rohe, Chapel, IIT, 1949-52
Mies van der Rohe, Minerals and Metals Research Building, IIT 1942-43
Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House, Plano, IL
Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona Pavilion, 1929
Ricardo Legoretta, Hotel Camino Real 1975
Riema Pietila, Congregational Center, Finland 1979
Balkrishna Doshi, Sangath, Ahmedabad India 1979-1981
Fay Jones, Thorncrown Chapel, Eureka Springs, Arkansas 1980
Charles Correa, Kanchanjunga Apartments, Bombay India 1983
Charles Moore, Hood Musuem of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire 1983
Louis Kahn, Parliamentary Building, Dacca 1983
Louis Kahn, First Unitarian Church and School, Rochester, NY 1959-69
Louis Kahn, Exeter Library, Exeter, NH 1967-72
Louis Kahn, Norman Fisher House, Hatboro, PA 1960-67
Antonio Predock, Nelson Fine Arts Center, 1985-90
Jean Nouvel, L'Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris France 1987
Aldo Rossi, Hotel Il Palazzo, Fukuoka Japan, 1987
Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, São Paulo, Brazil 1988
Nicholas Grimshaw, Sainsbury's Superstore, Britain 1989
Michael Graves, San Juan Capistrano Library, California 1981-83
Sverre Fehn, Glacier Museum, Fjaerland Norway1991
Helmut Jahn, Sony Center, Berlin 1993-2000
Mario Botta, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California 1995
Christian de Portzamparc, Cite de la Musique, Parc de La Villette, Paris France 1994
Itsuko Hasegawa, Museum of Fruit, Japan 1996
Enric Miralles, Parliament Building, Scotland 2001
Alsop Architects, Fawood Children's Centre 2004
Venturi and Brown, Hôtel du Département de la Haute-Garonne, Toulouse France, 2005
Toyo Ito, White U house, Tokyo, 1976
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