Readings for week 2:

• 2a. Eduard Sekler, "Structure, Construction, Tectonics," Structure in Art and in Science, Gyorgy Kepes, ed., Braziller, New York, 1965 (pp.89-95: 7 pages total)

• 2b. Wolfgang Herrmann, "Semper and the Archeologist Bötticher," Gottfried Semper: In Search of Architecture The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1984 (pp.139-152: 14 pages total)

• 2c. Standford Anderson, " Modern Architecture and Industry: Peter Behrens, the AEG, and Industrial Design," Oppositions,Summer 1980: 21 (pp.79-89: 11 pages total)

• 3a. Donald J. Bush, The Streamlined Decade, Braziller, New York, 1975 (pp.4-14; 128-140: 24 pages total)

• 3b. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form, abridged version edited by John Tyler Bonner, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 1966 (pp.221-253: 33 pages total)

• 4a. Roland Mainstone, "Beams and Slabs," Developments in Structural Form, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1975 (pp.137-148: 12 pages total)

• 4b. Pier Luigi Nervi, Buildings, Projects, Structures: 1953-1963, Praeger, New York, 1963 (pp.6-9; 17; 47; 75; 76; 130: 9 pages total)

• 4c. Charles H. Thornton et. al., Exposed Structure in Building Design, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1993 (pp.152-169: 18 pages total)

• 5a. Jonathan Ochshorn, "Curtain-wall Systems in 20th-Century Architecture," Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, Routledge, 2003 (to appear), (3 pages total)

• 5b. Richard D. Rush, "Testing the Limits of Transparency with Point-Supported Glass," The Construction Specifier, September 1999 (pp.40-46: 7 pages total)

• 5c. Peter Rice and Hugh Dutton, Structural Glass, E & FN Spon, London, New York, 1995 (pp.25-42: 18 pages total)

• 6a. Fuller Moore, "Frames," Understanding Structures, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1999 (pp.103-118: 16 pages total)

• 6b. Colin Rowe, "Chicago Frame," The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1976 (first published 1956) (pp.90-101;107-117; 24-25: 24 pages total)

• 7a. Jonathan Ochshorn, "Brick in 20th-Century Architecture," and "Stone in 20th-Century Architecture," Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, Routledge, 2003 (to appear), (8 pages total)

• 7b. Jacques Heyman, The Stone Skeleton, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1995 (pp.1-26: 26 pages total)

• 7c. Robert Mark, "Quintessential High Gothic: Amiens Cathedral and Medieval Engineering," Experiments in Gothic Structure, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982 (pp.50-57: 8 pages total)

• 8a. David P. Billington, "Robert Maillart and New Forms in Reinforced Concrete," The Tower and the Bridge, Basic Books, New York, 1983 (pp. 147-170: 24 pages total)

• 10a. WAclaw Zalewski and Edward Allen, "Finding Forms and Forces for Funicular Structures," Shaping Structures: Statics, Wiley, New York, 1998 (pp.175-189: 15 pages total)

• 11a. Götz Gutdeutsch, Building in Wood: Construction and Details, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel Berlin Boston, 1996 (pp.7-29: 23 pages total)

• 11b. Christian Müller, "The Forerunners of Glued Laminated Timber," Laminated Timber Construction, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel Berlin Boston, 2000 (pp.8-19: 12 pages total)

• 12a. Jonathan Ochshorn, "Steel in 20th-Century Architecture," Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, Routledge, 2003 (to appear), (6 pages total)

• 14a. Eugene S. Ferguson, "The Mind's Eye: Nonverbal Thought in Technology," Science, 26 August 1977, Vol. 197, Number 4306 (pp.827-836: 10 pages total)

• 14b. Chris Abel, "Ditching the Dinosaur Sanctuary" and "Return to Craft Manufacture," Architecture & Identity: Responses to Cultural and Technological Change, 2nd edition, Architectural Press, Oxford, 2000 (pp.3-14; 37-47: 23 pages total)

• 15a. Kenneth Frampton, "Introduction: Reflections on the Scope of the Tectonic," Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995 (pp.1-27: 27 pages total)