Resilient Design

series of drawings behind text with blue rising on the textLandscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise: Innovative Global Solutions
Galen Newman and Zixu Qiao
2022
Available online

 

modern structure in the high mountainsUrgent Architecture: 40 Sustainable Housing Solutions for a Changing World
Bridgette Meinhold
2013
Available in paper

 

red paper on clipboardDesigning for Social Change: Strategies for Community-Based Graphic Design
Andrew Shea, foreword by William Drenttel & illustrations by Ellen Lupton
2012
Available in paper
Available online

building on shore with large title on topToo Big: Rebuild by Design: A Transformative Approach to Climate Change
Henk Ovink & Jelte Boeijenga
2018
Available in paper

 

folded sheet with depictions of landscapeDesigning Landscape Architectural Education: Studio Ecologies for Unpredictable Futures
Edited ByRosalea Monacella, Bridget Keane
2022
Available online

 

blue book coverDesigning to Avoid Disaster: The Nature of Fracture-Critical Design
Thomas Fisher
2013
Available in paper
Available online

 

text in multiple pink and blue linesLEAP Dialogues: Career Pathways in Design for Social Innovation
Mariana Amatullo with Bryan Boyer, Liz Danzico and Andrew Shea, eds.
2016
Available in paper

 

children in a splash pad Creating Healthy Neighborhoods: Evidence-based Planning and Design Strategies
Ann Forsyth, Emily Salomon, and Laura Smead
2017
Available in paper

 

bikes on a paved pathThe Greenway Imperative: Connecting Communities and Landscapes for a Sustainable Future
Charles A. Flink, foreword by Keith Laughlin
2020
Available in paper

 

knot pattern on crumpled paperDesign to Renourish: Sustainable Graphic Design in Practice
Eric Benson and Yvette Perullo
2017
Available in paper
Available online

 

 

house buried in snowClimate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales: From Buildings to Cities
Nicholas B. Rajkovich and Seth H. Holmes, eds.
2022
Open access

 

cityscape with roadwork signResilient City: Landscape Architecture for Climate Change
Elke Mertens and Julian Reisenberger
2021
Available online

 

fantasy like image of water and islands or waterfallThe Routledge Companion to Ecological Design Thinking: Healthful Ecotopian Visions for Architecture and Urbanism
Mitra Kanaani, ed
2022
Available online

 

 

green book coverMetropolitan Landscapes: Towards a Shared Construction of the Resilient City of the Future
Antonella Contin
2021
Available online

 

white plans on a black backgroundThe Architecture of Persistence: Designing for Future Use
D. Fannon, M. Laboy, and P. Wiederspahn
2021
Available in paper
Available online

 

Child's shadow on sidewalk chalk patternResilience for All: Striving for Equity Through Community-driven Design
Barbara Brown Wilson
2018
Available in paper
Available online

 

New EBooks for 2022

green, black, and red shapes on yellow fieldAdvertising Design by Medium : A Visual and Verbal Approach
Robyn Blakeman
2022
Link to EBook

 

 

city streetArchitectural Education Through Materiality: Pedagogies of 20th Century Design 
edited by Elke Couchez and Rajesh Heynickx
2022
Link to EBook

 

tree and shrubs lit at nightThe Art of Landscape Lighting: A Designer’s Companion 
Janet Lennox Moyer
2022
Link to EBook

 

image of construction with background of skyscrapersThe City On Display: Architecture Festivals and the Urban Commons
Joel Robinson
2022
Link to EBook

 

electric plan like designCybernetic Architectures: Informational Thinking and Digital Design 
Camilo Andrés Cifuentes Quin
2022
Link to EBook

 

book cover with starburst patternsDesign for Social Innovation: Case Studies From Around the World 
edited by Mariana Amatullo, Bryan Boyer, Jennifer May, Andrew Shea
2022
Link to EBook

 

black and white title on red coverDesigning for the Climate Emergency: A Guide for Architecture Students
Sofie Pelsmakers, Aidan Hoggard, Urszula Kozminska, and Elizabeth Donovan
2022
Link to EBook

 

book cover with titleInterdisciplinary Research for Printing and Packaging 
edited by Pengfei Zhao, Zhuangzhi Ye, Min Xu, Li Yang, Linghao Zhang, Shu Yan
2022
Link to EBook

 

blurry sepia figures Italian Imprints on Twentieth-century Architecture
edited by Denise Costanzo and Andrew Leach
2022
Link to EBook

 

 

green cover with titleLandscape Architect’s Pocket Book 
Siobhan Vernon, Susan Irwine, Joanna Patton, and Neil Chapman
2022
Link to EBook

 

title with rising blue line series of transparent plans behindLandscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise: Innovative Global Solutions 
edited by Galen Newman, Zixu Qiao
2022
Link to EBook

 

the word machine shifts to the word learning on a black backgroundMachine Learning: Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Phil Bernstein
2022
Link to EBook

 

 

concrete and water forecourt of buildingMinoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture 
Paul Kidder
2022
Link to EBook

 

 

line drawing of figures in a landscape with treesMultisensory Landscape Design: A Designer’s Guide for Seeing 
Daniel Roehr
2022
Link to EBook

 

 

book cover black with rainbow patternPost-digital Letterpress Printing: Research, Education and Practice
edited by Pedro Manuel Reis Amado, Ana Catarina Silva and Vítor Quelhas
2022
Link to EBook

 

city at night and subway graphicResilient and Responsible Smart Cities
edited by Hugo Rodrigues, Tomohiro Fukuda, Simon Elias Bibri
2022
Link to EBook

 

child digging in dirtTemporary Gardens 
Raffaella Sini
2022
Link to EBook

Arboretums/Arboreta

We’ve recently added images of The Arboretum at Penn State to the Central Pennsylvania Architecture and Landscape Architecture Collection. (Currently spring and winter, but it’s something we can add to.)

 

multicolored cover with tree among other plantsGardens across America: The American Horticultural Society’s Guide to American Public Gardens and Arboreta 
Thomas S. Spencer and John J. Russell
2005
Available in paper

 

 

green cover with graphic of wreathPaul A. Elliott, et al.
The British Arboretum: Trees, Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
2011
Available online

 

 

Evergreens receding into the distance on book coverPlanting and Maintaining a Tree Collection 
Simon Toomer
2010
Available in paper

 

 

 

trees with red and green leavesTrees Live Here: The Arboretums of America
Susan McDougall
2013
Available in paper

 

 

figures walking through trees on brown book cover
Robert F Brzuszek and James Clark
“Visitor perceptions of ecological design at The Crosby Arboretum, Picayune, Mississippi”
Native Plants Journal, vol. 10 no. 2, 2009, p. 91-105.
Available online

 

 

General Plan for Memorial Arboretum for the Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pa
design by John R. Bracken
Available in Special Collections
One of the early efforts for an arboretum at University Park

 

image of the table of contentsPublic Gardens and Arboretums of the United States
Martha McMillan Roberts
1962
Available in paper
Fun to explore if you’re looking for vintage images.

Computing

grayscale water effectHigh Definition: Zero Tolerance in Design and Production
Bob Sheil
2014
Available online

 

 

multicolored closeup of biologic formThe Aesthetics of Scientific Data Representation: More Than Pretty Pictures
Lotte Philipsen and Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard, eds.
2018
Available in paper

 

 

green, purple, and black circular patternAutonomous Assembly: Designing for a New Era of Collective Construction
Skylar Tibbits
2017
Available online

 

 

plant forms at nightLandscape Architecture and Digital Technologies: Re-conceptualising Design and Making 
Jillian Walliss and Heike Rahmann
2016
Available in paper

 

 

mountains with a multicolor overlayComputing the Environment: Digital Design Tools for Simulation and Visualisation of Sustainable Architecture
Brady Peters and Terri Peters
2018
Available online

 

 

title ringing outer edges of book blue on orangeDrawing Futures
Laura Allen and Luke Caspar Pearson, eds.
2016
Available online

 

 

red dendron like filigree Dynamic Patterns: Visualizing Landscapes in a Digital Age
Karen M’Closkey and Keith VanDerSys
2017
Available in paper

 

 

white C in a black box with title belowCodify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture 
Bradley Cantrell and Adam Mekies, eds.
2018
Available in paper

 

 

blue book coverMaterial Strategies in Digital Fabrication
Christopher Beorkrem
2017
Available in paper

 

 

book titleArchitecture | Design | Data: Practice Competency in the Era of Computation
Phillip Bernstein
2018
Available online

 

 

circle of orange dots behind titleDigital Architecture Beyond Computers: Fragments of a Cultural History of Computational Design
Roberto Bottazzi
2018
Available in paper and online

 

 

purple grid splotchesThe Second Digital Turn: Design Beyond Intelligence
Mario Carpo
2017
Available in paper

 

 

subway like branching linesConvergence: The Redesign of Design
Randy Deutsch
2017
Available online

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cabins

overlay of words cabin fever on grid of cabin imagesCabin Fever
Jennifer M. Volland, Bruce Grenville and Stephanie Rebick, editors
2018
available in paper

 

 

“Montgomery, Ala., Restoration Artists Bring Past to Life”
Dugan, Kelli M.
Tribune Business News, 2002
available online

 

illustration of cabin in fog and treesHide and Seek: The Architecture of Cabins and Hide-Outs.
Sofia Borges, Sven Ehmann, and Robert Klanten, editors
2014.
available in paper

 

 

“Palmer Park Master Plan”
David Mangum
Michigan Chronicle, Aug, 2016, pp. 1
available online
(formerly Log Cabin Farm)

 

illustration of cabin with back of figure in foregroundNative American Log Cabins in the Southeast 
Gregory A. Waselkov, editor
2019
available in paper

 

 

 

axiomatic drawing of cabin constructionHand-hewn: The Art of Building Your Own Cabin  
William C. Leitch
1976
available in paper
One of the more contemporary guides for prospective owners – we have examples back to 1889

 

 

green cover with drawing of cabin and pine tree for the I in cabinThe Log Cabin: An Illustrated History
Andrew Belonsky
2018
available in paper

 

 

 

two-story cabin with stone chimneyLog Houses of the World
Richard Olsen
2006
available in paper

 

 

illustration of cabin framed by trees and mountainsThe Log Cabin: An American Icon
Alison K. Hoagland
2018
available in paper
available online

 

 

atmospheric photograph of large cabinThe Work of Joe Webb: Appalachian Master of Rustic Architecture
Reuben Cox
2009
available in paper

 

 

multi-story light colored cabin on waterfrontCottage and Cabin
Linda Leigh Paul
2010
available in paper

 

 

Find more books on log cabins in NA7575 (as vacation houses) or NA8470 (as construction method)

Networks

maroon book cover with white text and network sketchesORTLOS: Architecture of the Networks
Edited by Ivan Redi & Andrea Redi
2005
available in paper

 

book cover with flowers and trees planted in gridded patternVacant to Vibrant: Creating Successful Green Infrastructure Networks.
Sandra  Albro
2019
available online

 

 

green book coverUrban Landscapes: Environmental Networks and Quality of Life.
Massimo Sargolini
2013
available online  

 

 

yellow and blue book cover“Graphic Design and Social Networks: Methodological Proposal Supported by the Open Innovation and Co-Creation” in Media and Metadmedia Management
Blas José Subiela Hernández
2016
Available online

 

 

book cover with tree lined streetCompleting Our Streets: The Transition to Safe and Inclusive Transportation Networks
Barbara McCann
2013
available online

 

 

yellow book coverCity Networks
Edited by Athanasia Karakitsiou, Athanasios Migdalas, Stamatina Th. Rassia, Panos M. Pardalos
2017
available online

 

 

book cover with networks marked by color fieldsMonospace and Multiverse: Exploring Space with Actor-Network-Theory
Sabine Hansmann
2021
available online

 

 

yellow and orange book cover“Effective Network Graphic Design” in A User’s Guide to Network Analysis in R
Douglas A. Luke
2015
available online

 

 

book cover in a grey gradientNetwork Practices: New Strategies in Architecture and Design
Edited by Anthony Burke and Therese Tierney
2007
available in paper

Trees

 

Trees in Trouble: Saving America’s Urban Forests
Andrea Torrice
2016
Video

 

title page Up by Roots: Healthy Soils and Trees in the Built Environment
James Urban
2008
Available in paper

 

 

book cover drawings of plantsPlant Kingdom: Design with Plant Aesthetics
2015
Available in paper

 

 

“State College Tree Walk”
Bill Elmendorf, Royce Clay, Alan Sam, and the State College Tree Commission in partnership with the Penn State School of Forest Resources
2015
Available in paper

 

book cover trees in a city parkRoutledge Handbook of Urban Forestry
edited by Francesco Ferrini, Cecil C. Konijnendijk van den Bosch, and Alessio Fini
2017
Available in paper

 

book cover tree held by craneHortitecture: The Power of Architecture and Plants
edited by Almut Grüntuch-Ernst, Almut and IDAS Institute for Design and Architectural Strategies
2018

Available in paper

 

book cover grid of pictures of trees and gradients of greenTrees in the Urban Landscape: Site Assessment, Design, and Installation.
Peter J. Trowbridge and Nina L. Bassuk
2004

Available in Paper

 

 

book cover wood shingles“Trees as Architecture” by Richard Mabey
In Wood, edited by William Hall
2017
Available in paper
   

 

book cover strips of black and white images with treesWhat’s Wrong with Plastic Trees?: Artifice and Authenticity in Design
Martin H. Krieger
2000
Available in paper

 

 

book cover skyscraper with trees on projecting planesVertical Greenery: Evaluating the High-Rise Vegetation of the Bosco Verticale, Milan
Elena Giacomello and Massimo Valagussa
2015
Available in paper

 

book cover city and trees at sunsetUrban Forest, Trees, and Greenspace: A Political Ecology Perspective
Edited by L. Anders Sandberg, Adrina Bardekjian, and Sadia Butt.
2015
Available in paper

 

 

book cover title with green and brown spotsDesign and Nature: A Partnership
Edited by Kate Fletcher, Louise St. Pierre, and Mathilda Tham
2019
Available online

 

 

There’s been a fair amount of interest lately in the history of trees and cities…

book cover single tree on a 1920s city street Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin
Sonja Dümpelmann
2019
Available in paper

 

 

book cover orange and green fall treesNature Next Door: Cities and Trees in the American Northeast
Ellen Stroud
2012
Available in paper or online

 

 

book cover Allee of trees with buildings in distanceUrban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
Jill Jonnes
2016
Available in paper

 

Plywood

book cover with plywood chair, house, forms, etcPlywood: A Material Story
Christopher Wilk with Elizabeth Bisley
2017
available in paper

 

 

book cover with titleBent Ply: The Art of Plywood Furniture
Dung Ngo & Eric Pfeiffer
2003
available in paper

 

 

light brown wavy lines on a dark brown background all with wood patternThe Plywood House
Pratt Institute, School of Architecture
c. 1966
available in paper
a vintage option

 

greyscale image of construction site componentsLouis I. Kahn: Towards the Zero Degree of Concrete, 1960-1974
Anna Rosellini
available in paper
for the formwork

 

 

 

 

Eames chair with shaped plywood seat and back and metal frameCharles Eames: Furniture from the Design Collection, the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Arthur Drexler
1973
Open Access

Back to School

For local information and further books on university campus design see our subject guide for Architecture: University Park Campus


shadows of tree limbs on walking paths
Landscape and the Academy
John Beardsley and Daniel Bluestone, eds.
2019

 


hybrid classroom settingRethinking Campus Spaces: How to Prepare for the Future of Learning and Work

Francie Diep
2020

 

 

 

journal cover green“The Iconography of Universities as Institutional Narratives”
Gili S. Drori, Giuseppe Delmestri, and Achim Oberg
Higher Education 71, no. 2, 2016

 

book coverSchool Spaces for Student Wellbeing and Learning: Insights from Research and Practice
Hilary Hughes, Jill Franz, Jill Willis
2019

 

 

 

book cover number nineThe Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus
Mitchell Thomashow; Anthony Cortese (Afterword by)
2014

 

 

 

 

book coverCampus: An American Planning Tradition 
Paul Venable Turner
1984
(a classic)

 

 

open air schoolDesigning Schools: Space, Place and Pedagogy 
Kate Darian-Smith and Julie Willis, ed.
2017

 

 

multicolor overlay on school designFuture Campus: Design Quality in University Buildings 
Ian Taylor, ed.
2016

 

 

 

single story building on a body of waterSchools for the Future: Design Proposals from Architectural Psychology
Rotraut Walden
2015
available online or in paper

 

 

Schools Without Walls: A Report  
prepared by Margaret Farmer and Ruth Weinstock, Educational Facilities Laboratories
1965
Educational Facilities Laboratories could be relied on for experimental buildings

School Buildings of Today and Tomorrow 
W.K. Harrison, C.E. Dobbin, and R. W. Sexton
1931
available in paper
(a personal favorite)

 

Beach Reads

book cover board walk over planted dunesSeaside Gardening
Theodore James, Jr. and Harry Haralambou
2006
Available to request in paper

 

 

book cover intersecting shed roofs and vertical sidingThe Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism
edited by Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher and Joseph Becker
2018
Available to request in paper

 

book cover abstract blue red and black Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury
Elizabeth Armstrong with Michael Boyd, Anna Brouwer, and Mary Trent
2007
Available to request in paper

 

book cover shingle covered house with porch at duskNewport Shingle Style
Cheryl Hackett
photography by Kindra Clineff
2010
Available to request in paper

 

book cover flowers overlooking the oceanAtlantic Coastal Gardening: Growing Inspired, Resilient Plants by the Sea
Denise Adams
2014
Available to request in paper

 

 

book cover blue and white rectanglesE.1027: Roquebrune-Cap-Martin 1926-29
Eileen Gray, in collaboration with Jean Badovici, editors Wilfried Wang, Peter Adam
2017
Available to request in paper

 

book cover crowd of peopleConey Island: Visions of an American dreamland, 1861-2008
Robin Jaffee Frank
2015
Available to request in paper

 

 

Structures of Coastal Resiliencebook cover arial view of coastline tinted blue
Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, Guy Nordenson, and Julia Chapman
2018
Available online