ARC 204 Housing

Essential Texts

AIA. Architectural Graphic Standards. Hoboken: Wiley, 2007.

Firley, Eric; Stahl, Caroline. The Urban Housing Handbook. London: Wiley, 2009.

Gehl, Jan. Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space. New York: van Nostrand Reinhold, 1987.

Hall, Peter. Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planing and Design Since 1880. Oxford, Blackwell, 1988.

Neufert, Ernst. Architects' Data. Chichster: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 

Schneider, Friederike. Floor Plan Atlas. Basel: Birkhauser, 1997.

Seraji, Nasrine.  Housing--Substance of Our Cities. Paris: Picard, 2007.

Taylor, Lisa. Housing: Symbol, Structure, Site. New York: Rizzoli, 1990. 
 
 Additional Readings

Ascher, Kate. The Works: Anatomy of a City. New York, Penguin Press, 2005.

A+t. Complex Buildings Series: Dwelling Mixers. Madrid: a+t, 2017.

Banerjee, Tridib. Companion to Urban Design. New York: Routledge, 2011.  

Barker, Paul. The Freedoms of Surburbia.  London: Frances Lincoln, 2009. 

Berghauser Pont, Meta, and Per Haupt. Spacematrix : Space, Density and Urban Form. Rotterdam: NAI, 2010.

Bijlsma, Like. The Intermediate Size: A Handbook for Collective Dwellings. Amsterdam: SUN, 2006. 

Camesasca, Ettore. History of the House. New York, Putnam, 1971.

Caro, Robert.  The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

Dennis, Michael. Court and Garden: From the French Hotel to the City of Modern Architecture. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1986.

Duany, Andres. Smart Code: version 9 and Manual. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 

Fernandez Per, Aurora. Density Projects: 36 New Concepts on Collective Housing. Victoria-Gasteiz, Spain: A+t Ediciones, 2007. 

French, Hilary. Key Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections, and Elevations.  New York: W.W. Norton, 2008. 

Gans, Herbert J. The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community. New York: Vintage Books, 1967. 

Gordon, David. Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities. London; New York: Routledge, 2006. 

Grinberg, Donald. Housing in the Netherlands 1900-1940. Delft: Delft University Press, 1977. 

Pamphlet Architecture 1-10. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988. ​

Howard, Ebenezer. Garden Cities of To-morrow. London: Faber and Faver, Ltd., 1945.

Hunter, Christine. Ranches, Rowhouses and Railroad Flats: American Homes: How They Shaped Our Landscapes and Neighborhoods. New York: Norton, 1999.

Junhua, Lue. Modern Urban Housing in China. Munich: Prestel, 2001.

Komossa, Susanne. The Dutch Urban Block and the Public Realm: Models, Rules, Ideals. Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2010. 

Leupen, Bernard. Housing Design: A Manual. Rotterdam, NAi Publishers, 2011. 

Levitt, David. Housing Design Handbook: A Guide to Good Practice. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2010. 

Panerai, Philipe. Urban Forms: the Death and Life of the Urban Block. Oxford: Architectural, 2003. 

Plunz, Richard. A History of Housing in New York City: Dwelling Type and Social Change in the American Metropolis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. 

Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970.  

Ring, Kristien.  Selfmade City: Berlin: Self-initiated Urban Living and Architectural Interventions. Berlin: Jovis, 2013. 

Rossi, Aldo.  The Architecture of the City. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1982. 

Rybczynski, Witold. Home: A Short History of an Idea. New York: Viking, 1986.  

Schoenauer, Norbert. 6000 Years of Housing. New York: Garland STPM Press, 1980.

Schwartz, Alex. Housing Policy in the United States. New York: Routledge, 2015. 

Solomon, Dan. Housing and the City: Love Versus Hope. Atgen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2018.