Structural Physics
Ashby, Mike, and Kara Johnson. Materials and Design: The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002.
Baden-Powell, Charlotte. Architects Pocket Book (2nd edition). Oxford: Architectural Press, 2001.
Ferguson, Eugene S. Engineering and the Mind’s Eye. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1992.
Gordon, J.E. New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don’t Fall Through the Floor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.
——. Structures, or, Why Things Don’t Fall Down. New York: Da Capo Press, 2003.
Heyman, Jacques. Structural Analysis: A Historical Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Hunt, Tony. Structures Notebook (2nd edition). Oxford: Architectural Press, 2003.
Larsen, Olga Popovic. Conceptual Structural Design: Bridging the Gap Between Architects and Engineers. London: Thomas Telford Ltd, 2003.
Rice, Peter. An Engineer Imagines. London: Artemis, 1993.
Structural Elements
Baden-Powell, Charlotte. Architects Pocket Book, 2nd edition. Oxford: Architectural Press, 2001.
Beukkers, Adriaan and Ed van Hinte. Light-ness: The Inevitable Renaissance of Minimum Energy Structures. Rotterdam: 010 publishers, 2005.
Bowyer, Jack (ed.). Handbook of Building Crafts in Conservation: A Commentary on Peter Nicholson’s The New Practical Builder and Workman’s Companion, 1823. London: Hutchinson, 1981.
Ching, Francis D.K. and Cassandra Adams. Building Construction Illustrated. New York: Wiley, 2001.
Ford, Edward R. The Details of Modern Architecture. Volume 2: 1928 to 1988. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003.
Stacey, Michael. Component Design. Oxford: Architectural Press, 2001.
Sulzer, Peter. Jean Prouvé, Complete Works, vols 1, 2, 3 and 4. Basel: Birkhauser, 1999– 2008.
Weston, Richard. Materials, Form and Architecture. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2003.
Structural Logic
Addis, William. Creativity and Innovation: The Structural Engineer’s Contribution to Design. Oxford: Architectural Press, 2001.
Bathurst, Bella. The Lighthouse Stevensons: The Extraordinary Story of the Building of the Scottish Lighthouses by the Ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Harper Perennial, 2005.
Billington, David P. The Art of Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy. London: Princeton University Press, 2003.
Chilton, John. Space Grid Structures. Oxford: Architectural Press, 2000.
——. Heinz Isler, in the series The Engineer’s Contribution to Contemporary Architecture. London: Thomas Telford Ltd, 2000.
Critchlow, Keith. Order in Space: A Design Source Book. New York: Viking Press, 1970.
Fuller, R. Buckminster. Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller, the Art of Design Science, Joachim Krausse and Claude Lichtenstein eds. Baden: Lars Muller Publishers, 1999.
Hunt, Tony. Second Sketchbook. Oxford: Architectural Press, 2003.
Otto, Frei and Bodo Rasch. Finding Form: Towards an Architecture of the Minimal. Munich: Deutscher Werkbund Bayern, 1995.
Otto, Frei (ed.). Tensile Structures: Design Structure and Calculation of Bldgs. of Cables, Nets and Membranes. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1973.
Robbin, Tony. Engineering a New Architecture. London: Yale University Press, 1996.
Sutherland, Lyall. Masters of Structure: Engineering Today’s Innovative Buildings. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2002.
Wells, Matthew. 30 Bridges. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2002.
Zerning, John. Design Guide to Anticlastic Structures in Plastic. London: Polytechnic of Central London, 1976.
Building Performance
Bakker, Conny and Ed van Hinte. Trespassers: Inspirations for Eco-efficient Design. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1999.
Broome, Jon. The Green Self-build Book. Totnes: Green Books, 2007.
Burberry, Peter. Environment and Services, in the series Mitchell‘s Building Construction. London: Batsford, 1977.
Charles M. Salter Associates Inc. Acoustics: Architecture, Engineering, the Environment. San Francisco: William Stout Publishers, 1998.
Givonni, B. Man, Climate and Architecture, in the series Architectural Science. London: Applied Science Press, 1976.
Lord, Peter and Duncan Templeton. The Architecture of Sound: Designing Places of Assembly. London: Architectural Press, 1986.
Nicholls, Richard. Low.energy.design. Oldham: Interface Publishing, 2002.
——. Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning. Oldham: Interface Publishing, 2002.
Richardson, E.G. Acoustics for Architects. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1945.
Winckel, D. Fritz. Music, Sound and Sensation. New York: Dover Publications, 1967.
Computational Tools
Callicott, Nick. Computer-aided Manufacture in Architecture: The Pursuit of Novelty. Oxford: Architectural Press, 2001.
Frazer, J., An Evolutionary Architecture, Architectural Association, London, 1995.
Maurin, B. and R. Motro. “Concrete Shells Form-Finding with Surface Stress Density Method”, Journal of Structural Engineering, vol. 130, issue 6 (June 2004), pp. 961–68.
Silver, Pete, Will McLean, Samantha Hardingham and Simon Veglio. Fabrication: The Designer’s Guide. London: Architectural Press, 2006.
The Bartlett Technical Handbook. London: The Bartlett: Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, 2001.
Cossons, Neil and Harry Sowden. Ironbridge, Landscape of Industry. London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1977.
De Jong, Cees and Erik Mattie. Architectural Competitions 1792–1949. Cologne: Taschen, 1994.
Field, Marcus. Future Systems. London: Phaidon, 1999.
Frampton, Kenneth. Álvaro Siza: Complete Works. London: Phaidon, 2006.
Fuller, Frank M. Engineering of Pile Installations. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983.
Fuller, Thomas T.K. (ed.). Buckminster Fuller: An Anthology for the New Millennium. New York: St. Martin’s, 2001.
Gorman, Michael John. Buckminster Fuller: Designing for Mobility. Milan: Skira, 2005.
Jodidio, Philip. Álvaro Siza. Cologne: Taschen, 1999.
John, Geraint, Rod Sheard and Ben Vickery. Stadia: A Design and Development Guide, 4th edition. Oxford: Architectural Press, 2007.
Morrison, John. Approximate Methods of Analysis. Bath: Buro Happold Limited, 2002. Nicholls, Richard. Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning. Oldham: Interface Publishing, 2002.
Peters, Nils. Jean Prouvé, 1901–1984, The Dynamics of Creation, from the series Basic Architecture. Cologne: Taschen, 2006.
Roman, Antonio. Eero Saarinen: An Architecture of Multiplicity. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003.
Sheard, Rod. Sports Architecture. London: Spon Press, 2001.
Spade, Rupert and Yukio Futagawa. Eero Saarinen. London: Thames & Hudson, 1971.
Swaan, Wim. The Gothic Cathedral. New York: Park Lane, 1981.
Temko, Allan. Eero Saarinen. New York: George Braziller, 1962.
Thompson, P., J.J.A. Tolloczko and J.N. Clarke (eds). Stadia, Arenas and Grandstands. London: E & FN Spon, 1998.
Toman, Rolf (ed.). Romanesque: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting. Cologne: Konemann, 2004.
Web Resources
(Buckminster Fuller Institute)
www.clifton-suspension-bridge.org.uk
www.communityselfbuildagency.org.uk
www.defra.gov.uk/environment/noise/
www.oikos.com/esb/51/passivecooling.html
(passive cooling and the use of bio-climatic charts)
(insulation)
(Scottish Ecological Design Association)
www.skyscrapernews.com/index1.php
(Delft Spline Systems software of architectural design)
(website of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design [LEED] at the United States Green Building Council [USGBC]