Architecture / Shelter

*note: Most of the books listed are, unfortunately, missing from my archives... so, links to individual book entries will be slow in forthcoming (I'm also pretty swamped for time).
To be added: publishing details, synopsis, reviews, and biographical material... this is going to take a while.

• The Inflatocookbook by Ant Farm
  (196?, non-fiction... pneumatic architecture)

• Zome Primer by Steve Baer
  (196?, non-fiction... shelter... stretching R.Buckminster Fuller's concepts into new forms)

• The Virtual Dimension: Architecture, Representation and Crash Culture by John Beckmann
  (199?, non-fiction...Princeton Architectural Press, US... to contact John Beckman, e-mail: jbeckmann@axismundi.com... uncertain if published)

• For an Architecture of Reality by Michael Benedikt
  (1987, non-fiction)

• Deconstructing the Kimbell: An Essay on Meaning and Architecture by Michael Benedikt
  (19??, non-fiction)

• The Limits Of The City by Murray Bookchin
  (19??, non-fiction)

• Urbanization Without Cities: The Rise and Decline of Citizenship by Murray Bookchin
  (19??, non-fiction, essays)

• From Urbanization to Cities: Towards a New Politics of Citizenship by Murray Bookchin
  (19??, non-fiction... anarchism)

• Space Grid Structures by John Borrego
  (19??, non-fiction... architecture, free-span engineering, geodesics... great stuff, absolutely essential)

• Order in Space: A Design Source Book by Keith Critchlow
  (1969, non-fiction, reference, illustrated...Thames and Hudson, London, UK... geometric structures, geodesics... inspired by the work of R.Buckminster Fuller... essential sourcebook)

• City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis
  (1990, non-fiction...Verso, New York, US... fortress architecture, siege mentality)

• Architecture in Transition by C.A.Doxiadis
  (1963, non-fiction... comprehensive approach to world housing and city design)

• Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier by Robert Fishman
  (1977, non-fiction... architecture, garden cities, town planning)

• Owner-Built Home by Ken Kern
  (1961, non-fiction...Ken Kern Drafting, Oakhurst, Californis, US... architecture)

• Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller by Robert Marks
  (1960, non-fiction...Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois, US... architecture, design, geometry, synergetics, floating cities, space colonies... the work of R.Buckminster Fuller)

• Japanese Homes and their Surroundings by Edward S.Morse
  (1972, non-fiction... architecture... full of ancient yet very useful ideas... classic)

• Pneumatic Structures by Frei Otto
  (19??, non-fiction... architecture, inflatable structures)

• Tensile Structures by Frei Otto
  (19??, non-fiction... architecture, tensile structures, tensegrity)

• The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture by Victor Papanek
  (1995, non-fiction, illustrated...Thames and Hudson, London, UK, pbk, ISBN 0-500-27846-6... architecture, design)

• Design Heroes: Buckminster Fuller by Martin Pawley
  (1990, non-fiction... architecture, design, geometry, synergetics, transport... the work of R.Buckminster Fuller)

• Underground Houses by Robert L.Roy
  (1979, non-fiction...Sterling Publishing, New York, US... 'How to Build a Low-cost Home')

• Architecture Without Architects by Bernard Rudofsky
  (1965, non-fiction...Doubleday, US... architecture)

• Arcology: The City in the Image of Man by Paolo Soleri
  (1969, non-fiction... architecture... self-sustaining, ecological, 3D cities, bridges, space colonies... some great designs)

• The Bridge Between Matter and Spirit is Matter Becoming Spirit by Paolo Soleri
  (1973, non-fiction... architecture, philosophy)

• Arcosanti: An Urban Laboratory? by Paolo Soleri
  (1987, non-fiction... architecture)

• Paolo Soleri's Earth Casting: For Sculpture, Models and Construction by Paolo Soleri and Scott M.Davis
  (1984, non-fiction... architecture... ferro-cement cast in shaped-earth molds)

• Housing by People: Towards Autonomy In Building Environments by John F.C.Turner
  (19??, non-fiction... shelter)

• Natural Structure by Robert Williams
  (1971, non-fiction...Endaemon Press, Moorpark, California, US)

• Virtual Architecture by Giuliano Zampi and Conway Lloyd Morgan
  (1995, non-fiction...Batsford, London, UK, hbk, ISBN 0-7134-7629-X... virtual reality used in architecture, urban planning)

"Architecture: Shaping the Future" by Richard Rogers
(lecture)

"Musings on Lunar Architecture" by Theodore W.Hall
(haven't checked this link yet)

"Soft Machines" by Mark Dery
(article published in 21C Scanning the Future , #23, 1997... 'soft' architecture, cities of the future)

• Adobe Journal
  (adobe, rammed earth, solar design, sustainability... tabloid magazine... published by Michael Moquin... P.O.Box 7725, Albuquerque, NM 87194, USA)

• The Monolithic Dome Roundup
  (planning, designing, and constructing dome buildings...
  P.O.Box 479, Italy, TX 76651, USA)

• "Urban Control -- Beyond Bladerunner: The Ecology of Fear" by Mike Davis
  (pamphlet...Open Media, Westfield, New Jersey, US... fortress architecture, siege mentality, shelter...
  "Mike Davis examines the transformation of America's urban landscape into an ecology of fear -- technologically controlled environments wherein entire communities are subject to state surveillance and corporate control.")

• "L.A. Was Just the Beginning: Urban Revolt in the USA -- A Thousand Points of Light" by Mike Davis
  (pamphlet...Open Media, Westfield, New Jersey, US)

R.Buckminster Fuller
(bibliography... plus links... Anachron Library entry)

Richard Rogers
(Lloyds building, Pompideau Centre, etc... here's an external link to a brief biography)

Paolo Soleri
(bibliography... plus links... Anachron Library entry)

The Wright Style
(Frank Lloyd Wright site... includes bio, examples of work, plus links)

Architecture Virtual Library
(links site... journals, organisations, schools, news, chat area)

Arcosanti
(website devoted to the work of Paolo Soleri)

The Building Technologies Home Page
(architecture site... contains The Pat Center by Richard Rogers)

GTN: Architects
(great architects links page)

The Land is Ours
("They are the Diggers-inspired organisation who squatted the Guinness site in Wandsworth...Among other things it has good links to pages on interesting simple and environmentally friendly building methods, straw bale housing for example." --John Hall.)

Matiu Carr
(student architecture from Auckland, New Zealand)

Orbital Space Settlements
("to...enable the eventual establishment of permanent, self-sufficient settlements in space.")

Space Colony Art
(Nasa space colony art from the 1970s... classic images well worth a view... recommended. Also see Gerard K.O'Neill.)

Synergetics Home Page
(Kirby Urner's excellent site devoted to the work of R.Buckminster Fuller)

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