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.
. 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 MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu
4.205 Analysis of Contemporary Architecture Fall 2009
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