Digital Bookshelf

Architecture for Health and Well-Being: A Sustainable Approach
María Eugenia Molar Orozco, ed.
CRC Press, 2023
Available online

 

 

 

Nature, Design, and Health: Explorations of a Landscape Architect
David Kamp
2023
On display in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library

 

The Routledge Companion to Ecological Design Thinking: Healthful Ecotopian Visions for Architecture and Urbanism
Mitra Kanaani, ed.
Routledge, 2023
Available online

 

 

Work-life Balance in Architecture: Playing the Game
Igea Troiani
Routledge, 2024
Available online

 

 

Peace by Design
Mardelle McCuskey Shepley, ed.
Routledge, 2025
Available online

 

 

Urban Blue Spaces: Planning and Design for Water, Health and Well-Being
Simon Bell, Friedrich Kuhlmann, Mathew P. White, Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen, James Grellier and Lora E. Fleming, eds.
Routledge, 2022
Available online

 

Happy by Design: A Guide to Architecture and Mental Wellbeing
Ben Channon
RIBA Publishing, 2023
Available online

 

 

Neuroscience for Designing Green Spaces: Contemplative Landscapes
Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo
Routledge, 2023
Available online

Visualizations of Urban Space: Digital Age, Aesthetics, and Politics
Christiane Wagner
Routledge, 2023
Available online

 

 

The Garden in the Machine: Planning and Democracy in the Tennessee Valley Authority
Avigail Sachs
University of Virginia Press, 2023
Available in Pattee

 

Why Cities Need Large Parks: Large Parks in Large Cities
Richard Murrary, ed.
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library

 

 

Temporary and Tactical Urbanism : (Re)assembling Urban Space
Quentin Stevens and Kim Dovey
Routledge, 2023
Available online

 

 

Architecture of Threshold Spaces: a Critique of the Ideologies of Hyperconnectivity and Segregation in the Socio-Political Context
Laurence Kimmel
Routledge, 2022
Available online

 

 

Digital Participatory Planning: Citizen Engagement, Democracy, and Design
Alexander Wilson and Mark Tewdwr-Jones
Routledge, 2022
Available online

 

 

The Politics of Street Trees
Jan Woudstra and Camilla Allen, eds.
Routledge, 2022
Available online

 

 

Public Space: Notes on Why it Matters, What We Should Know, and How to Realize its Potential
Vikas Mehta
Routledge, 2022
Available online

 

 

Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico
Luis E. Carranza
Routledge, 2022
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library

 

 

 

Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship: Transformative Methods in Social Sustainability Research
Alex Franklin, ed.
Springer Nature, 2022
Available online

Planning with Landscape: Green Infrastructure to Build Climate-Adapted Cities 
Camila Gomes Sant’Anna, Ian Mell, Luciana Bongiovanni Martins Schenk, eds.
Springer, 2023
Available online

 

Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
Don Norman
MIT Press, 2023
Available in Pattee

 

 

Architects, Sustainability and the Climate Emergency: A Political Ecology 
Peter Raisbeck
Emerald Publishing, 2023
Available in Pattee

 

 

RIBA Climate Guide
Mina Hasman
RIBA Publishing, 2023
Available online

 

Design Build with the Scarcity and Creativity Studio 
Christian Hermansen Cordua and Solveig Sandness
Routledge, 2023
Available online

 

 

Achieving Building Comfort by Natural Means 
Ali Sayigh, ed.
Springer, 2022
Available online

 

 

A Beginner’s Guide to Urban Design and Development: The ABC of Quality, Sustainable Design
Laura B. Alvarez
Routledge, 2023
Available online

 

 

Heating with Wolves, Cooling with Cacti: Thermo-bio-architectural Framework (ThBA)
Negin Imani and Brenda Vale
Taylor & Francis Group, 2022
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library

 

 

Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-smart Architecture
Bruce King and Chris Magwood
Island Press, 2022
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library

Alvar Aalto And the Future of Architecture
Robert Cody
Routledge, 2023
Available Online

 

 

 

The Brutalists: Brutalism’s Best Architects 
Owen Hopkins
Phaidon Press Limited, 2023
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library 

 

 

Louise Blanchard Bethune 
Kelly Hayes McAlonie
State University of New York Press, 2023
Available Online

 

 

 

Alvar Aalto and The Art of Landscape
Teija Isohauta
Routledge, 2022
Available Online

 

 

 

Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern: Architecture and the Black American Middle Class
Jacqueline Taylor
The MIT Press, 2023
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library 

 

 

Giuliano da Sangallo and The Ruins of Rome
Cammy Brothers
Princeton University Press, 2022
Available at Pattee

 

 

Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture
Paul Kidder
Routledge, 2022
Available Online

 

 

 

Notes From Another Los Angeles : Gregory Ain and the Construction of a Social Landscape
Anthony Fontenot
The MIT Press, 2022
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library 

 

 

Garden As Art: Beatrix Farrand at Dumbarton Oaks
Thaïsa Way; with photographs by Sahar Coston-Hardy
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2022
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library 

Architectures of Spatial Justice
Dana Cuff
The MIT Press, 2023
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library 

 

 

Multisensory Landscape Design : A Designer’s Guide for Seeing
Daniel Roehr
New York, NY: Routledge 2022
Available online 

 

 

 

The Architecture of Disability : Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes Beyond Access
David Gissen
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2022
Available at Pattee 

 

 

 

MANY VOICES: Architecture for Social Equity
Sara Caples
Riba Publishing, 2022
Available online

 

Queering Architecture: Methods, Practices, Spaces, Pedagogies
Marko Jobst, ed. Naomi Stead, ed.
London; New York; Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023
Available in Pattee 

 

 

 

A Guide to Socially-Informed Research for Architects and Designers
Michelle Yvonne Janning
Routledge, 2022
Available online 

 

 

 

Neurodivergence and Architecture
Anthony Clarke, ed. Jos Boys, ed. John Gardner, ed. 
Cambridge, MA: Academic Press, 2022
Available online 

 

 

 

A Bittersweet Heritage : Slavery, Architecture and the British Landscape
Victoria Perry
London: Hurst & Company, 2022. New York, NY: Distributed in the United States, Canada, and Latin America by Oxford University Press. Glasgow: Printed by Bell and Bain Ltd.
Available in Pattee 

 

 

Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation
Amanda Cachia, ed.
Routledge, 2022
Available Online  

 

 

 

Post-Industrial Urban Greenspace Ecology, Aesthetics and Justice
Jennifer J. Foster
Abingdon, Oxon; New York NY: Routledge, 2023
Available Online 

 

 

 

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado-Perez
New York: Adams Press, 2019
Available Online 

Recommendations from the Association for Architecture School Librarians and ASLA

99% Invisible
“the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world”

About Buildings+Cities
History, but with ties to today.

American Planning Association
Talks with planners and on topics of health, transportation, etc.

Archispeak
Chats on life, school, and jobs surrounding architectural practice.

ArchitectureTalk
Focused on contemporary projects and theory

Building Hope
Projects and ideas that focus on resiliency and community.

DESIGN:ED
Weekly guests from prominent firms.

Design Matters
Guest discussions with designers as well as other figures in the arts

Scratching the Surface
Discussions with figures in the arts lead by a graphic designer.

The Second Studio
They’re very clear that some of their content is not PG.

Talking Practice
Designers discuss current topics in practice.

US Modernist Radio
Hear discussions of Modernism before heading over to their open-access Architecture Magazine Library.

New and Noteworthy

Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity
Lauren Rabinovitz
2012

 

 

 

The Pleasure Garden: From Vauxhall to Coney Island
Jonathan Conlin
2013

 

 

 

Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters
Victoria W. Wolcott
2012
Available online and in paper 

 

 

 

A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks: Middle Class Kingdoms
Sabrina Mittermeier
2020

 

 

LA+
Issue on Pleasure
Fall 2015

“Enjoyment in the Night: Discovering Leisure in Philadelphia’s Eighteenth-century Rural Pleasure Gardens”
Anne Beamish
Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, Vol 35 No. 3 2015

 

Not Quite So New, But Quite Topical

Designing Disney’s Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance
Karal Ann Marling
1997

 

 

Theme Park Landscapes: Antecedents and Variations
Terence Young and Robert B. Riley
2002 

 

 

 

The Invention of the Park: Recreational Landscapes from the Garden of Eden to Disney’s Magic Kingdom 
Karen R. Jones and John Wills
2005

 

 

 

The Playful Crowd: Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century
Gary S. Cross and John K. Walton
2005

 

 

Landscape of Recreation II: Amusement Parks
Francisco Asensio Cerver and Antonia Dueñas
1994

 

 

 

Total Landscape, Theme Parks, Public Space
Miodrag Mitrašinović
2006

 

 

Dream Worlds: Architecture and Entertainment
Oliver Herwig
2006

 

 

Building a Dream: The Art of Disney Architecture
Beth Dunlop
1996

 

 

Theme Park
Scott A. Lukas
2008

 

 

 

Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space 
Michael Sorkin
1992

 

 

 

Form Follows Fun: Modernism and Modernity in British Pleasure Architecture 1925-1940 
Bruce Peter
2007

 

 

The Theming of America: Dreams, Media Fantasies, and Themed Environments
Mark Gottdiener
2001

 

 

 

Older Titles for a Deep Dive

Theme and Amusement Parks
Francisco Asensio Cerver
1997

 

 

Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America 
Gary S. Cross
2004

 

 

Fairground Attractions: A Genealogy of the Pleasure Ground
Deborah Philips
2012

 

 

 

Working at Play a History of Vacations in the United States
Cindy Sondik Aron
1999
Available online or in paper

 

 

The Incredible Scream Machine: A History of the Roller Coaster
Robert Cartmell
1987

 

 

“Amusement Parks as Landscapes of Popular Culture: An Analysis of Willow Grove Park and the Wildwoods”
JM Doherty
1999

The Global Theme Park Industry
Anton Clavé
2007

 

 

 

Amusement Parks of Pennsylvania
Jim Futrell
2002

 

 

 

Fairground Architecture 
David Braithwaite
1968

 

 

The Story of Walt Disney World
Walt Disney Productions
1971

 

 

The American Amusement Park Industry: A History of Technology and Thrills 
Judith Adams-Volpe
1991

 

 

 

Des Mondes Inventés: Les Parcs à Thème
Anne-Marie Eyssartel
1992

 

 

 

The Great American Amusement Parks: A Pictorial History
Gary Kyriazi
1976

 

 

Walt Disney’s Disneyland
Marty Sklar
1965

 

 

The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez 
Alexander Wilson
1991

 

Photo Books

Western Pennsylvania’s Lost Amusement Parks
Rachel E. Smith
2020

 

 

 

Luna: Pittsburgh’s Original Lost Kennywood
Brian Butko
2017

 

 

 

Idlewild: History and Memories of Pennsylvania’s Oldest Amusement Park
Jennifer Sopko
2018

 

Hersheypark
Pamela Cassidy Whitenack
2006

 

 

 

Kennywood
David P. Hahner
2004

 

 

 

Dutch Wonderland
Austen Dennison
2015

 

 

 

Dorney Park
Wally Ely with Bob Ott
2003

 

 

 

Idlewild
Jeffrey S. Croushore
2004

 

 

 

Hersheypark: The Sweetness of Success  
Charles J. Jacques
1997

Card Board Book 
Narelle Yabuka, ed.
2010

 

 

Cardboard in Architecture
Mick Eekhout, Fons Verheijen, Ronald Visser, eds.
2008

 

 

Unpack Me Again! Packaging Meets Creativity / Le Packaging Créatif Packaging Creativo
Wang Shaoqiang
2017

 

Play in Creative Problem-solving for Planners and Architect
Ron Kasprisin
2016

 

 

The Art of Cardboard: Big Ideas for Creativity, Collaboration, Storytelling, and Reuse
Online or in paper
Lori Zimmer
2015

 

Installation Art Now
Gingko Press
2013

 

 

Robert Rauschenberg: Cardboards and Related Pieces
essay by Yve-Alain Bois
catalogue by Clare Elliott
introduction by Josef Helfenstein
2007

 

Box It Up: Graphic Express 
Basher Graphic Books and Working Title & Co.
2014

 

 

 

 

Designing Interventions to Address Complex Societal Issues
Sarah Morton, ed.
2022
Available online

 

 

Extra Bold: A feminist Inclusive Anti-Racist Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers
Ellen Lupton, Farah Kafei, Jennifer Tobias, Josh A. Halstead, Kaleena Sales, Leslie Xia, Valentina Vergara
2021
Available online
Available in paper

 

Designing a Just City: How Architecture Reshapes Property, Equity, Ecology, and Economy
Janette Kim, ed.
2021
Available in paper

 

Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South
William E. O’Brien
2016
Available online
Available in paper

 

Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now
Cynthia E. Smith
2022
Available in paper

 

 

In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism
Jeffrey Hogrefe, Scott Ruff, with Carrie Eastman, Ashley Simone, eds.
2020
Available in paper

 

 

Information Design for the Common Good: Human-centric Approaches to Contemporary Design Challenges
Courtney Marchese
2021
Available in paper

 

 

Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America  
Sean Anderson and Mabel O. Wilson, eds.
2021
Available in paper

 

Our Voices II, The De-colonial Project
Rebecca Kiddle, Luugigyoo Patrick Stewart, and Kevin O’Brien
2021
Available in paper

 

How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens
Hillary Angelo
2021
Available online

 

 

Many Voices: Architecture for Social Equity
Sara Caples and Everardo Jefferson
2022
Currently being acquired

 

 

 

 

Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes
Stephen Ives, Lauren DeFilippo, Karen Smythe
2020
This film follows award-winning public garden designer Lynden B. Miller as she sets off to explore the remarkable life and career of America’s first female landscape architect, Beatrix Farrand. (62 min)

 

Cultivating Change
David Springbett, Heather MacAndrew, and Des Kennedy
2019
Shows how garden projects in the United States and Canada have transformed communities in positive ways. (50 min)

Helvetica
Gary Hustwit
2007
An independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. HELVETICA looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. … (81 min)

Inside the Middle East: Architectural Legacy
2018
In a career spanning four decades, Zaha Hadid’s pioneering vision redefined architecture and design for the 21st century. … Two years since her death, we look at how Hadid’s style is still influencing Middle Eastern architecture and inspiring new generations of young architects. (24 min)

Invitation to a Voyage: Eileen Gray, Designer and Architect
Jörg Bundschuh, Cathal O’Shannon
2020
Chronicles the life of Eileen Gray and the history of her architectural creations, including E.1027, one of the most famous houses in architectural history, built in Roquebrune, France in 1926. (52 min)

 

The New Bauhaus
Alysa Nahmias, Miranda Yousef, Petter Ringbom, Erin Wright, Hans Ulrich Obrist
2021
This film is an odyssey through the life and legacy of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, the innovative artist and educator whose pioneering approach to integrating technology into design continues to influence and inspire. ….  Following recent retrospectives of Moholy’s work at major museums, this film offers a more accessible and intimate, emotional journey through Moholy’s life and his work as an artist, designer, visionary, and teacher. (89 min)

PBS NewsHour: How these Alabama Architecture students are Improving Lives with Low-cost Home Designs
John Yang
2018
For decades, students and faculty from Auburn University’s Rural Studio have been working, studying and living in Hale County, Alabama, and using architecture to serve the greater good. … (8 min)

Pruitt Igoe Myth
2015
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the wholesale changes that took place in the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development in St. Louis. …. (84 min)

Rams
Gary Hustwit
2020
“RAMS” is the new documentary from Gary Hustwit (Helvetica, Objectified, Urbanized) about legendary German designer Dieter Rams. For more than 50 years, Rams has left an indelible mark on the field of product design, with his iconic work at Braun and Vitsoe, and his influence on Apple. So at 87 years old, why does he now regret being a designer? “Rams” is a design documentary, but it’s also a rumination on consumerism, sustainability, and the future of design. Dieter’s philosophy is about more than just design, it’s about a way to live. The film also features an original score by pioneering musician Brian Eno. (74 min)

Rethink Sustainability: Mastering the Art of Sustainable Architecture
Helen Barrett
2020
In a nation where space is at a premium, the Dutch are leaders in creating environmentally friendly buildings. From repurposed redundant structures to modular, transportable studios and floating neighbourhoods, … (6 min)

Skill Sumo: Work Inspiration. Nikki Hayes, Graphic Designer
2019
(3 min)

Urbanized
Gary Hustwit
2018
Over half the world’s population now lives in an urban area, and 75% will call a city home by 2050. But while some cities are experiencing explosive growth, others are shrinking. The challenges of balancing housing, mobility, public space, civic engagement, economic development, and environmental policy are fast becoming universal concerns. Yet much of the dialogue on these issues is disconnected from the public domain. (86 min)