8.0 | References

1930-1950s Residential Construction


"The City's Threat to Open Land." Architectural Forum 108 (January 1958): 87-90, 164-66. (from Rome)

Abrams, Charles. The Future of Housing. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1946. (from Rome)

Brown, Harrison. The Challenge of Man's Future: An Inquiry Concerning the Condition of Man During the Years that Lie Ahead. New York, Viking Press, 1954. (from Rome)

Colean, Miles L. American Housing: Problems and Prospects. New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1944. (from Rome)

Community Builders Council of the Urban Land Institute. The Community Builders Handbook. Washington: Urban Land Institute, 1956. (from Rome)

Ford, Katherine Morrow, et al. The American House Today. New York: Reinhold, 1951.

Kusler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. (from Rome)

O'Neill, William L. American High: The Years of Confidence: 1945-60. New York: Free Press, 1986. (from Rome)

Rome, Adam. "Building on the Land: Toward an Environmental History of Residential Development American Cities and Suburbs, 1870-1990" in Journal of Urban History 20 (1994): 407-434. (from Rome)

Rome, Adam. The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Scott, Mel. American City Planning Since 1890: A History Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the American Institute of Planners. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.

Building and Climate


Aronin, Jeffry Ellis. Climate and Architecture. New York: Reinhold, 1953. (from Rome)

Banham, Reyner. The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1984.

Building Research Advisory Board. Energy and Housing: Consumer and Builder Perspectives. Cambridge: Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain, 1980. (from Rome)

Butti, Ken, et al. A Golden Thread: 2500 Years of Solar Architecture and Technology. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1980. (from Rome)

Gottlieb, Lois Davidson. Environment and Design in Housing. New York: Macmillan, 1965.

Hough, Michael. City Form and Natural Process: Towards a New Urban Vernacular. London: Croom Helm, 1984.
Kahn, Matthew E. "The Environmental Impact of Suburbanization" in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 19:4 (Autumn, 2000): 569-586.

Olgyay, Victor and Olgyay, Aladar. Application of Climatic Data to House Design. Housing Research. Washington: Housing and Home Finance Agency, 1954.

Olgyay, Victor. "The Temperate House." Architectural Forum 94 (March 1951): 179-194.

Olgyay, Victor. Design with Climate: Bioclimatic Approach to Architectural Regionalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963.

Osborn, Fairfield. Our Plundered Planet. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948. (from Rome)

Putnam, Palmer Cosslett. Energy in the Future. New York: Van Nostrand, 1953. (from Rome)

Real Estate Research Corporation. The Costs of Sprawl: Environmental and Economic Costs of Alternative Residential Development Patterns at the Urban Fringe. Two volumes. Washington: USGPO, 1974. (from Rome)

Rothman, Hal K. The Greening of a Nation? Environmentalism in the United States Since 1945. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1998. (from Rome)

Rudolph, Paul. "Regionalism in Architecture." Perspecta 4 (1957): 12-19.

Simon, Maron J., ed. Your Solar House. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1947. (from Rome)

House Beautiful/AIA Climate Control Project


American Institute of Architects. "Regional Climate Analyses and Design Data: The House Beautiful Climate Control Project." Washington D.C.: The Institute, 1976, 1949.

. "The Climate Controlled House." in House Beautiful October 1949-December 1951.

MIT Solar House Development


Hamilton, Richard W., ed. Space Heating with Solar Energy. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1954.

Haws, J. Frank. A House Utilizing Solar Radiant Energy as a Heat Source by Means of South Facing Windows. Thesis (B. Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1949.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology., Committee on Solar Energy Research. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Solar House IV. Cambridge, M.A.: 1958.

Whillier, Austin. Solar Energy Collection and Its Utilization for House Heating. Cambridge, M.A.: 1953, Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (published in another form, same title by Arno Press, 1979)

Sarasota School of Architecture


Howey, John. The Sarasota School of Architecture, 1941-1966. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.

Szenasy, Susan. "What We Value, Two Lessons in Historic Modernism: What Will We Learn From Them?" Metropolis Magazine, November 2006.

Weaving, Andrew. Sarasota Modern. Rizzoli, 2006.