University of Oregon - Department of Architecture - ARCH 408/508 Cheng, Summer 1998

Structures Resource list


Many of these books feature buildings which are assembled from customized components in a kit of parts approach:


Architectural Design magazine [London], Tensile Structures, Profile no. 117, v. 65, no. 9-10, Sept - Oct. AAA NA 4160 . T46 1995.

Berger, Horst, Light structures, structures of light : the art and engineering of tensile architecture, Basel ; Boston : Birkhauser, 1996. AAA TA663 .B47 1996.

Blaser, Werner, Santiago Calatrava, Boston :Berkhauser Verlag,1990. AAA NA1313.C35 S26 1990

Brookes, Alan, Connections : studies in building assembly , Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth Architecture, 1992. TH2025 .B763 1992

Detail magazine, NA2835 .D4

Ivy, Robert, A + U magazine, no245 (Feb. '91) p. 57-120. on Fay Jones. (Thorncrown Chapel and Worship Center, Eureka Springs; Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel, Bella Vista, Ark)

Kolmaier, Georg & Barna van Sartory, Houses of Glass, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986. NA4140.K5813 198

Mainstone, Richard, Developments in Structural Form, Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press, 1975. RSRV AAA TH145 .M2796 1975b

Neuhart, John and Ray Eames, Eames Design, Harry N. Abrams, 1989. AAA NK1535.E25 N48 1989

Rice, Peter, An Engineer Imagines, London : Artemis, 1994. TH140.R5 E44 1994

Saliga, Pauline and Thorne, Martha, Building in New Spain, 1992 Vamplada & Pinon, Sants Station plaza Miralles & Pinos, Olympic Archery Ranges

See also: Archived drawings in the Library

University of Hong Kong Architecture Student ProjectsSee BAAS II's Precedent Studies under PROJECTS.


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