Environmental Design Library @ UC Berkeley

Building & Landscape Types

This is a general and introductory guide to information sources on architectural and landscape architecture precedents, typologies, and building and landscape types, with a focus on the United States. Unless otherwise noted, materials are in the collection of the Environmental Design Library, UC Berkeley or on the Internet.

Precedents	Building & Landscape Types
• Overviews & General Works	• General Works
• History & Theory	• Specific Building & Landscape Types
• Search Terms	Banks	Museums
	Educational Bldgs	Offices
Typology	Garden Structures	Parks and Plazas
• Overviews & General Works	Gardens	Recreation/Sports Bldgs
• History & Theory	Health Facilities	Religious Bldgs
• Search Terms	Hospitality Bldgs	Restaurants
	Houses/Housing	Stores
	Industrial Bldgs	Streets and Paths
	Libraries	Theaters
	Monuments	Transportation Bldgs
	Municipal Bldgs	Waterfronts

"The term precedent … refers to a representation of the knowledge about a past design in a form that makes it applicable or 'reusable', in new, but similar problem situations." (Classification of Precedents, Z. Aygen and U. Flemming, Pittsburgh: School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University. [1998?] viewed 2/22/2010.)

"To raise the question of typology in architecture is to raise a question of the nature of the architectural work itself…. What then is type? It can most simply be defined as a concept which describes a group of objects characterized by the same formal structure…. Architecture … is not only described by types, it is also produced through them." (Rafael Moneo, "On Typology," Oppositions n. 13:23, Summer, 1978.) Architecture students should have the "Ability to incorporate relevant precedents into architecture and urban design projects." (NAAB student performance criteria 11, Use of Precedents.)

For additional assistance see our research guides on History of Architecture, Buildings & Places, American Architecture, and Vernacular Architecture, or consult the Environmental Design Library reference staff.

UC Berkeley faculty, registered students, and staff who are off campus may use items marked UCB Only or UC Only via the Library's proxy service or the Virtual Private Network (VPN).

Compiled by Elizabeth Douthitt Byrne. Content reviewed: October 2005

Precedent

1. Something done or said that may serve as an example or rule to authorize or justify a subsequent act of the same or an analogous kind: an authoritative example
2. the norm for subsequent practice set by such a precedent
3. prevailing custom established by long practice
4. a person or thing serving as a model. (Webster's Unabridged online UCB Only.)

• American gardens and their European precedents: tradition and strategy / Joanna Lombard. Oz/College of Architecture and Design Kansas State University, v. 8:20-25, 1986.
  EnvDesign NA2750.O9 v.8, 1986 bound periodicals
• Archetypes in architecture. Thomas Thiis-Evensen. Oslo: Norwegian University Press; Oxford: Oxford University Press [distributor], 1987.
  EnvDesign, Moffitt NA2750.T441 1987
• "Architectural Precedent," by Hentie Louw, in Companion to Contemporary Architectural Thought. London, N.Y.: Routledge, 1993:181. See also additional articles in this section, p. 183-242.
  EnvDesign NA2599.C66 1993 Reference
• Lessons on the use of historic precedents. Linda N. Groat. Milwaukee, WI: Center for Architecture and Urban Planning Research, University of Wisconsin, 1984. Publications in architecture and urban planning. Working paper WP84-4.
  EnvDesign NA2543.H55.G76 1984
• "Precedent and invention," in Harvard architecture review, v. 5: 1986. Twelve separate articles on architectural precedents and types. Excellent bibliographies.
  EnvDesign NA1.H3 v.5, 1986 bound periodicals
• Precedents in architecture: analytic diagrams, formative ideas, and partis. Roger H. Clark, Michael Pause. 3rd ed. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2005. Part I analyzes 104 buildings, including plans and illustrations. Part 2 identifies formative ideas or typologies. Covers Renaissance through 1990s.
  EnvDesign NA2750.C55 2005

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• Analysing architecture. Simon Unwin. 2nd ed. London; New York: Routledge, 2003.
  EnvDesign NA2750.U58 2003
• History and precedent in environmental design. Amos Rapoport. New York: Plenum Press, 1990. Approach to history and analysis of precedent.
  EnvDesign TA170.R37 1990
• Use and adaptation of precedents in architectural design: toward an evolutionary design model…. Karina Moraes Zarzar. Thesis (doctoral), Delft:Technische Universiteit Delft, 2003.
  EnvDesign NA2750.Z37 2003

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Use these terms as subject words or keywords to find additional publications. Terms designated "LC" are official Library of Congress subject terms which can be used in searching OskiCat and Melvyl, the library catalogs, and may also be useful as subject or keywords in searching periodical indexes. Look for the truncation or wildcard symbol in each database you search (usually * or ?) to find variations of words, e.g., singular, plural, adjective form.

Archetyp*
Architectural design (LC)
Architectural design--History (LC)
Architecture and history (LC)
Architecture--Composition, proportion, (LC)
Architecture--Philosophy (LC)
Architecture--Theory (LC)
Precedent, architectural
Precedents
Prototype buildings

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Typology

"The classification of objects, structures, or specimens by subdividing observed populations into a theoretical sequence or series of groups (types) and subgroups (subtypes) according to consideration of their qualitative, quantitative, morphological, formal, technological, and functional attributes. Once established, typological sequences are often used as a surrogate chronology or culture history." (The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology. Oxford Univ.Pr., 2002. Oxford Reference Online UCB Only.)

• The alphabetical city. Steven Holl. New York: [Pamphlet Architecture], 1980. Pamphlet architecture; 5. "Different building types which evolved on and defined grid patterns in cities…" and a "catalogue" of a variety of grid types.
  EnvDesign NA9108.H59
• "Architecture after the demise of building types," Masashi Sogabe, Japan Architect, n. 50:56-7, Sum. 2003. Using the office building as an example, argues that there is little purpose to distinguish buildings by function in today's world.
  EnvDesign NA6.I481 n. 50, 2003 bound periodicals
• "Buildings and typologies", in Understanding Architecture. Marco Bussagli. [Armonk, NY]: M.E. Sharpe, 2004. v. 1: 40-75. Excellent examples of residential, religious, public, military, collective, industrial, service, commercial, and funerary building types with brief histories from ancient to contemporary.
  Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0414/2004001989.html
  EnvDesign NA200.B8687 2004 v. 1-2
• "Getting to know the built landscape: Typomorphology," in Ordering space: Type in architecture and design, ed. Karen A. Franck and Linda Schneekloth. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994.
  EnvDesign NA2500.O73 1994
• "LandSCAPES, a typology of approaches to landscape architecture, UCB Only Katherine Crew and Ann Forsyth, Landscape Journal, v. 22 n.1:37-53, 2003. Typology of six approaches to landscape architecture.
  Print: EnvDesign SB469 .L34 v.22, 2003 bound periodicals
  Online: UCB Only via EBSCO
• "Linear landscapes: corridors, conduits, strips, edges, and segues." Ken Smith. Harvard design magazine, Win-Spr 1999:77-80. Typology of linear spaces in landscape architecture.
  EnvDesign fNA1.H2 1999 bound periodicals
• "On the typology of architecture," Giulio Carlo Argan, Architectural Design, v. 33, n. 12:564-65, Dec. 1963.
  EnvDesign NA1.A658
• "On typology", Rafael Moneo, Oppositions n.13:23-45, Sum 1978. Discusses architectural type, typology and their use in contemporary architectural design and theory.
  EnvDesign NA1.O6 n. 13, 1978 bound periodicals
• Ordering space: types in architecture and design, edited by Karen A. Franck, Lynda H. Schneekloth. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994. Important collection of essays by respected scholars, e.g. Anthony King, Anne Vernez Moudon, on the use of type in research and theory, sociology and politics, and the design process. Includes architecture, urban design and the built landscape. Excellent bibliographies.
  EnvDesign NA2500.O73 1994
• Phylogenesis: foa's ark. Foreign Office Architects. Barcelona: Actar, 2004. FOA's own taxonomy of their works. Moves away from "…the traditional functional classification of types … into a morphological one…"
  EnvDesign NA680.F6 2004 and EnvDesign NA997.F63.A4 2003
• "Typologies," by Paul Oliver, Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World. Paul Oliver, ed. Cambridge, U.K; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997, v. 1:609-10, 611-654. Extensive and scholarly articles on the typologies of vernacular architecture. Introduction by Oliver, with additional sections by other authors.
  EnvDesign NA208.E53 1997 Reference v.1-3
• "Typology," by David Vanderburgh, in Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture, vol. 3:1355-56. Excellent overview of subject, including history and theory; bibliography.
  EnvDesign NA680.E495 2004 Reference
• Typology, spatial evolution and functional transformations of mixed-use inner-urban neighborhoods: a search for the elements for adaptable urban communities. Takashi Ariga. Berkeley: University of California, Dept. of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Thesis (Ph.D. in Environmental Planning), Dec. 1997.
  EnvDesign NA25.63.1997.A75

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• "The architectural typology of Antoine Chrysostome Quatremere de Quincy," Jonathan Noble. EAR, 2000 Sept., v.27: 147-161, Sept. 2000. Includes bibliographical references.
  EnvDesign NA2000 .E17 v. 27, 2000 bound periodicals
• Architecture of the city. Aldo Rossi. translation of L'architettura della citta by Diane Ghirardo and Joan Ockman. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1982. Oppositions books. A new urban theory, looking at the history and meaning of cities through building typology and urban morphology.
  EnvDesign NA9031.R6713
• "After typology: the suffering of diagrams," William Braham. Architectural design, v. 70 n.3:9-11. June 2000. How typology has historically provided the dominant model for architectural working methods. Includes bibl.
  EnvDesign NA1.A658 v. 70, 2000 bound periodicals
• Buildings & power: freedom and control in the origin of modern building types. Thomas A. Markus. London; New York: Routledge, 1993.
  EnvDesign NA500.M37 1993
• "Designing: rules, types and worlds," Donald A. Schon. Design Studies, v.9 no.3:181-90, July, 1988. Analysis of how designers use design rules and patterns, such as building types.
  EnvDesign NK1160.D48 v.9, 1988 bound periodicals
• "Type, Antoine-Chrysotome Quatremere de Quincy, Encyclopedie Methodique. Paris, Panckoucke; Liege, Plomteux, 1788-1825. Reprinted (English) in Oppositions n.8:149, Spring 1977. Classic text and one of the earliest on building types and models.
  Original in French: EnvDesign NA31.Q3 Rare v. 1-4
  English translation: EnvDesign NA1.O6 n.8:1977 bound periodicals
• "Types and conventions in time: toward a history for the duration and change of artifacts, Stanford Anderson, Perspecta n.18:109-17, 1982. bibl. p. 206.
  EnvDesign NA1.P42 n.18, 1982 bound periodicals
• Typological theory in the United States: the consumption of architectural "authenticity", Terrance Goode, Journal of architectural education, v. 46 n.1:2-13, Sept. 1992. Postmodernism and typology. Bibliographical references.
  Print: EnvDesign NA2000.A1.J6
  Online: UC Only via JSTOR
• "Typology - an architecture of limits," Doug Kelbaugh, Architectural theory review: 1996 Nov., v.1, n.2, p.33-52, Nov. 1996. Includes bibliographical references.
  EnvDesign NA1.A725 v. 1, 1996 bound periodicals

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Use these terms as subject words or keywords to find additional publications. Terms designated "LC" are official Library of Congress subject terms which can be used in searching OskiCat and Melvyl, the library catalogs, and may also be useful as subject or keywords in searching periodical indexes.

Architectural theory (LC)
Architecture--Classification (LC)
Architecture--Theory (LC)
Architecture--Typology
Building types
Buildings--Typology
Garden Structures (LC)
Gardens--Typology
Landscape--Classification (LC)
Landscape--Typology
Morphology (LC)
[type of structure, e.g., Plazas] (LC)
[type of building]--Typology

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Building & Landscape Types & Styles

• Type: "Exemplar, pattern, prototype, or original work serving as a model after which a building or buildings are copied." (A Dictionary of Architecture. James Stevens Curl. Oxford Univ.Pr. 1999. Oxford Reference Online, Art & Architecture UCB Only; print: EnvDesign NA31.C86 1999 Ref Desk.)
• Style: "A particular type of architecture based on distinctive qualities of design or decoration." (Webster's Unabridged online UCB Only.)

• American architecture since 1780: a guide to the styles. Marcus Whiffen. Rev.ed. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992.
  EnvDesign NA705.W47 1992 Reference & circulating; Doe Ref
• American landscape architecture: designers and places, ed. by William H. Tishler. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 1989. Building watchers series. In addition to brief biographies of important designers, includes articles by experts on 21 types. Illus., bibl.
  EnvDesign SB470.53.A441 1989 Reference Desk and circulating
• American vernacular design, 1870-1940: an illustrated glossary / Herbert Gottfried, Jan Jennings. New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1985. Sections on elements (structures, roofs, windows, ornament, etc.) and on building types. Focus on houses. Illus., bibl.
  EnvDesign NA710.G68 1985 Reference
• Built in the U.S.A.: American buildings from airports to zoos, ed. by Diane Maddex (National Trust for Historic Preservation. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 1985. Building watchers series. Concise illustrated articles by experts on 42 types. Incl.bibl.
  EnvDesign NA705.B76 1985 Reference Desk & circulating, Moffitt
• "Building types", Encyclopedia of architecture: design, engineering & construction. Joseph A. Wilkes, editor-in-chief, Robert T. Packard, assoc. ed. New York: Wiley, 1988-1989, v. 1:515-16. Reference to numerous articles on different building types, tracing their development from earliest times to present, with illustrations. Includes a list of building types included.
  EnvDesign NA31 .E59 1988 Reference v.1-5 (1988-c1990)
• Clues to American architecture. Marilyn W. Klein, David P.Fogle. Rev. ed. Washington, DC: Starrhill Press, 1986. Concise, well illustrated overview. Includes many types and styles.
  EnvDesign NA705.K561 1986 Reference Desk and circulating
• Clues to American garden styles. David P. Fogle, Catherine Mahan, Christopher Weeks. Rev. ed. Washington: Starrhill Press, 1988. Concise, well-illustrated overview. Includes many types and styles.
  EnvDesign SB457.53.F641 1988 Reference Desk and circulating
• Encyclopedia of American architecture. Robert T. Packard, Balthazar Korab. 2nd ed. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Includes entries on many different types of buildings and their history and development in America. Well-illustrated.
  EnvDesign NA705.P3 1995 Reference
• History of building types. Nikolaus Pevsner. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976. A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts;19; Bollingen series; 35. Core, classic scholarly guide to the history of: monuments, government buildings, theatres, libraries, museums, hospitals, prisons, hotels, banks, office buildings, railway stations, market halls, stores and factories. Outstanding bibliographies.
  EnvDesign NA4170.P481 Reference and circulating; Art/Classics, Main Stack
• Illustrated international architecture index. Den Haag, Ten Hagen, 1967-1969. Catalog of actual examples of 34 modern building types, incl. plans, photos.
  EnvDesign fNA31.K4 Reference v. 1-3.
• Styles and types of North American architecture: social function and cultural expression. Alan Gowans. New York, N.Y.: IconEditions, 1992. Thorough analysis and survey. Covers many types. Excellent introduction ("Style and type - on reading history in architecture," p.xi-xiv), illus. and bibl.
  EnvDesign NA703.G69 1992 Reference and circulating
• Time-saver standards for building types. Joseph De Chiara, Michael J. Crosbie.. 4th ed. NY: McGraw-Hill, 2001. General design data for many types of buildings (see index), including: residences, museums, libraries, and theaters, hospitals and nursing homes, churches, air and truck terminals, retail shops, restaurants, hotels, industrial parks, playgrounds, and arenas. Includes plans, diagrams, tables, and schematics, sections on housing for the elderly and the handicapped, including access for the handicapped to public and government buildings. References for more information.
  EnvDesign NA2760 .D42 2001 Reference and Reserve
• Time-saver standards for landscape architecture: design and construction data. co-eds, Charles W. Harris, Nicholas T. Dines. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998. See section on Structures for details of many types.
  EnvDesign SB475.9.S72.T55 1998 Reserve, Reference and circulating

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Specific Building and Landscape Types, with Search Terms for Additional Information

Below are selected histories and/or design considerations for a few common building and landscape types. Use these terms as subject words or keywords to find additional publications. Terms designated "LC" are official Library of Congress subject terms which can be used in searching OskiCat and Melvyl, the library catalogs, and may also be useful as subject or keywords in searching periodical indexes. Combine search terms for building and landscape types with terms such as: Design and Construction; Designs and plans; History, or name of country.

Selected Search Terms:
Banks and Banking (LC)
Commercial buildings (LC)

• "Banking Houses in the United States: the first generation 1781-1811," Kenneth Hafertepe. UC Only Winterthur Portfolio, v.35 n. 1:1-52, Spr 2000.
  Online via JSTOR UC Only
  Print: Main Stack N9.W52
• Money matters: a critical look at bank architecture. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990.
  EnvDesign NA6241.M66 1990
• Monuments to money: the architecture of American banks / Charles Belfoure. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2005. Covers the evolution of American bank architecture from 1781 to new banks of the present day.
  EnvDesign NA6241.B45 2005
• Temples of Mammon: the architecture of banking. John Booker. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990. British emphasis.
  EnvDesign NA967.5.B36.B66 1990

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Selected Search Terms:
Academic libraries (LC)
Auditoriums (LC)
Campus planning (LC)
Classrooms (LC)
College buildings (LC)
Dormitories (LC)
Educational facilities
Elementary school buildings(LC)
High school buildings (LC)
Laboratories (LC)
[name of college--Buildings] (LC)
School buildings (LC)
School facilities (LC)
Schools
Student housing (LC)

• America's country schools / Andrew Gulliford. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, c1984.
  EnvDesign, Moffitt LB1567.G88 1984
• Building type basics for college and university facilities. David J. Neuman. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2003. Building type basics.
  EnvDesign NA6600 .N48 2003
• Educational spaces. Melbourne, Australia: Images Publishing Group, 1998.
  EnvDesign LB3221.E385 1998 v.1-3
• New schools for New York: plans and precedents for small schools. New York, N.Y.: Architectural League of New York: the Public Education Association: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992.
  EnvDesign LB3221 .N436 1992
• Planning and designing schools / C. William Brubaker, Raymond Bordwell, Gaylaird Christopher. New York: McGraw-Hill, c1998.
  EnvDesign LB3218.A1.B78 1998
• School ways: the planning and design of America's schools. Ben E. Graves; ed. by Clifford A. Pearson. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993.
  EnvDesign LB3218.A1.G73 1993

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See also History and Literature of Landscape Architecture.

Selected Search Terms:
Cabanas (LC)
Gazebos (LC)
Greenhouses (LC)
Sheds (LC)

• Furnishing the old-fashioned garden: three centuries of American summerhouses, dovecotes, pergolas, privies, fences & birdhouses. May Brawley Hill. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1998.
  EnvDesign NA8450.H55 1998
• Gazebos: the architects' and builders' companion: the most elegant and useful designs of gazebos and other slight slight structures. Peter Joel Harrison. Richmond, Va.: Dietz press, 1995.
  EnvDesign NA8450.H37 1995
• Greenhouses and conservatories. Olivier de Vleeschouwer. Paris: Flammarion; London: Thames & Hudson, 2001.
  EnvDesign SB415.8.V54 2001
• Porches, decks & outbuildings: the best of Fine homebuilding. Newtown, Conn.: Taunton Press, 1997.
  EnvDesign TH4970.P675 1997

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See also History and Literature of Landscape Architecture.

Selected Search Terms:
Gardens--Design
Gardens--History
Gardens--Styles
Landscape gardening
Parks

• Creating period gardens / Elizabeth Banks. Oxford [England]: Phaidon; Washington, D.C. : Preservation Press, 1991.
  EnvDesign SB457.5.B36 1991
• Garden design: history, principles, elements, practice / by William Lake Douglas … [et al.] New York: Simon and Schuster, c1984. (Series: A Quarto book.)
  EnvDesign SB473.G2881 1984
• Garden history: philosophy and design, 2000 BC - 2000 AD / Tom Turner. London: NY: Spon Press, 2005.
  EnvDesign SB451.T87 2005
• Garden styles / Kathleen S. Dickason. Lincolnwood, Ill : Publications International, c1996.
  EnvDesign SB457.5.D53 1996
• Landscape architecture: an illustrated history in timelines, site plans, and biography / William A. Mann. New York: John Wiley, c1993.
  EnvDesign SB470.5.M37 1993 Reference desk & circulating
• Modern garden design: innovation since 1900 / Janet Waymark. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003.
  EnvDesign SB472.45.W39 2003

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Selected Search Terms:
Health facilities (LC)
Clinics (LC)
Hospitals (LC)

• Building type basics for healthcare facilities: a building type basics handbook. Richard L. Kobus … [et al.]. New York: Wiley, 2000. Building type basics series.
  EnvDesign RA967.H434 2000
• Guidelines for design and construction of hospital and health care facilities. The American Institute of Architects Academy of Architecture for Health, with assistance from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.1996-97 [ed]. Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Architects Press, 1996.
  EnvDesign RA967.G83 1996
• The hospital: a social and architectural history / John D. Thompson and Grace Goldin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975.
  EnvDesign RA967.T51
• Hospital and healthcare facility design / Richard L. Miller and Earl S. Swensson. 2nd ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c2002.
  EnvDesign RA967.M487 2002
• Mending bodies, saving souls: a history of hospitals. Guenter B. Risse. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  Main Stack RA964.R57 1999

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See also Restaurants.

Selected Search Terms:
Bars (LC)
Casinos (LC)
Hotels (LC)
Motels (LC)
Pubs
Resort architecture (LC)
Roadside architecture (LC)
Taverns (LC)
Visitors centers(LC)

• Building type basics for hospitality facilities / Brian McDonough [et al.]. New York: Wiley, c2001. Building type basics series.
  Table of Contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/onix05/2001017910.html
  EnvDesign TX911.2.B84 2001
• Cafes & coffee shops / Martin M. Pegler, ed. New York: Retail Reporting Corp.: McGraw-Hill, Inc., c1995.
  EnvDesign NA7855.C344 1995
• Fast food: roadside restaurants in the automobile age / John A. Jakle & Keith A. Sculle. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Road and American culture.
  EnvDesign TX945.J35 1999
• Mission 66 visitor centers: the history of a building type / Sarah Allaback. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 2000.
  EnvDesign NA4510.V5.A44 2000
• The motel in America / John A. Jakle, Keith A. Sculle, Jefferson S. Rogers Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Road and American culture.
  Bus & Econ TX909.J35 1996

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Selected Search Terms:
Apartment buildings
Apartment houses (LC)
Architecture domestic (LC)
Condominiums (LC)
Congregate housing (LC)
Dwellings (LC)
Highrise apartment buildings (LC)
Lofts (LC)
Mobile homes ( LC)
Nursing homes (LC)
Old age homes (LC)
Public housing (LC)
Row houses (LC)
Yurts (LC)

• Alternative housing for older adults: a typology. Gary T. Moore, Kathryn H. Simmons & Marleen M. Sobczak. Milwaukee, Wis.: Center for Architecture and Urban Planning Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1985. Publications in architecture and urban planning. Working paper WP85-17.
  EnvDesign HD7287.92.U54.M66 1985
• Apartment buildings : plan atlas. Pilar Chueca; William George; Marta Rojals; Jay Noden. [Spain?] : Links, 2009.
  NA7126 .C48 2009
• Building type basics for housing. Robert Chandler [et al.] Hoboken, N.J.: J. Wiley & Sons, 2005. Building type basics.
  Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/wiley041/2004011566.html
  EnvDesign NA7208.2.B85 2005
• Field guide to American houses. Virginia and Lee McAlester. New York: Knopf, 1984.
  EnvDesign NA7205.M35 1984 Ref and circ
• Habitation space. [Milan, Italy, Habitation Space (International) S.N.C.] 1979-81. Comparative catalog of modern domestic architecture with plans, elev., photos of hundreds of building types worldwide; organized by type: apartment buildings, single-family homes, hotels and multi-family residences.
  EnvDesign NA7126.H3 Reference v. 1-3
• Rural & urban house types in North America. Steven Holl. San Francisco: Pamphlet Architecture and William Stout Architectural Books, 1983. Pamphlet architecture; no. 9.
  EnvDesign NA7207.H65 1983
• 6,000 years of housing. Norbert Schoenauer. Rev. & expanded ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000. Excellent with many illustrations, plans.
  EnvDesign NA7125.S383 2000 Reference
• Visual dictionary of American domestic architecture. Rachel Carley. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1994.Henry Holt reference book.
  EnvDesign NA7205.C27 1994 Ref Desk and circ
• Wood, brick, and stone: the North American settlement landscape / Allen G. Noble. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984. v.1: Houses, v.2: Barns and farm structures.
  EnvDesign NA703.N6 1984 v.1-2, Moffitt v.1

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Selected Search Terms:
Architecture, industrial (LC)
Factories (LC)
Industrial buildings (LC)

• Commerce and industry / the National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings. Historic Sites Survey. [Washington]: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1966. National survey of historic sites and buildings. Theme 17-b.
  EnvDesign E159.N337 v.1-3 (1966)
• Factory. Gillian Darley. London: Reaktion, 2003. Objekt. History and design of factories.
  EnvDesign NA6400.D37 2003
• Industrial buildings: a design manual / Jurgen Adam, Katharina Hausmann, Frank Juttner. Basel; Boston: Birkhauser Publishers for Architecture, 2004. Includes history, design and construction, examples, bibliography.
  EnvDesign fNA6400.A3213 2004
• The works: the industrial architecture of the United States / Betsy Hunter Bradley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  EnvDesign NA6402.B73 1999

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See also Library Design.

Selected Search Terms:
Academic libraries (LC)
Libraries (LC)
Library architecture (LC)
Public libraries (LC)

• Free to all: Carnegie libraries & American culture, 1890-1920. Abigail A. Van Slyck. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
  EnvDesign, Main Stacks Z679.2.U54.V36 1995
• Henry Hobson Richardson and the small public library in America: a study in typology / Kenneth A. Breisch. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997.
  EnvDesign Z679.2.U54.B74 1997
• Library as place: rethinking roles, rethinking space. Geoffrey T. Freeman et al.Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2005. Perspectives on the evolving library.
  Online: http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub129abst.html
  Print: Main Stack Z679.L532 2005
• Planning academic and research library buildings / Philip D. Leighton, David C. Weber. 3rd ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1999, 2000. Excellent detailed overview of academic library design with details, measurements and resources.
  EnvDesign Z679 .M491 2000 Noncirculating
• Planning the modern public library building. Gerard B. McCabe and James R. Kennedy, eds. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited, 2003. Libraries Unlimited library management collection.
  EnvDesign Z679.5.P58 2003

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Selected Search Terms:
Funerary monuments
Holocaust memorials (LC)
Memorials (LC)
Public sculpture (LC)
Sepulchral monuments (LC)
Soldiers monuments (LC)
Tombs (LC)
War memorials (LC)

• The art of memory: Holocaust memorials in history, ed. by James E. Young [et al.]. New York, N.Y.: Prestel: Prestel/Neues Pub. Co., 1994.
  EnvDesign, Main Stack, Morrison Rm D804.3 .A82 1994
• Monument builders: modern architecture and death. Edwin Heathcote. Chichester: Academy Editions, 1999.
  EnvDesign NA6120 .H42 1999
• Monuments and memory, made and unmade, ed. by Robert S. Nelson and Margaret Olin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
  EnvDesign, Anthro, Main Stack CC135.M647 2003
• "Planning Memory: Living Memorials in the United States during World War II" / Andrew M. Shanken. Art bulletin, v.84 n.1:130-147, Mar. 2002. UC Only Discusses origin and types of functional memorials, e.g. community centers, libraries, forests, highways. Bibliography.
  Print edition: Art Hist N11.C4
• War memorials: from antiquity to the present. Alan Borg. London: Leo Cooper, 1991.
  EnvDesign NA9325 .B67 1991

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Selected Search Terms:
City halls (LC)
Civic buildings
Civic centers (LC)
Courthouses (LC)
Municipal buildings
[name of place--Public buildings] (LC)
Public architecture (LC)
Public buildings (LC)

• Architecture in the public realm, ed. by Deborah Dietsch and Susanna Steeneken. [New York]: Columbia University, Graduate School of Architectureand Planning: Distributed by Rizzoli International Publications, 1981. Precis v. 3.
  EnvDesign NA2300.C635.P74 v.3
• Court house: a photographic document, ed. by Richard Pare; conceived and directed by Phyllis Lambert. New York: Horizon Press, 1978.
  EnvDesign fNA4471.C66 Noncirculating
• Institutional architecture: the design of health care, educational, municipal, and justice facilities. Paul Silver and David Miles Ziskind. Glen Cove, N.Y.: PBC International, 1993. Architecture & interior design library.
  EnvDesign NA4170.S48 1993
• Public buildings: a survey of architecture of projects constructed by federal and other governmental bodies between the the years 1933 and 1939. Public Works Administration, C.W. Short and R. Stanley-Brown. [Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] 1939.
  EnvDesign, Main Stack NA4208.A4 1939
• U.S. courts design guide. [3rd ed.] Washington, D.C : Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Space and Facilities Division, [1991].
  EnvDesign NA4471.U82 1991 Ref

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Selected Search Terms:
Art galleries, Commercial (LC)
Art museums (LC)
Childrens museums (LC)
Historical museums (LC)
Museum architecture (LC)
Museum buildings (LC)
Museums (LC)
Science museums (LC)

• Building type basics for museums. Arthur Rosenblatt; Stephen A. Kliment, ed. New York: Wiley, 2001. Building type basics series.
  EnvDesign NA6690 .R67 2001
• Curators and culture: the museum movement in America, 1740-1870 / Joel J. Orosz. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c1990. History of American science and technology series.
  Anthropology AM11.O76 1990; on order for EnvDesign
• Marble palaces, temples of art: art museums, architecture, and American culture, 1890-1930. Ingrid A. Steffensen-Bruce. Lewisburg [Pa]: Bucknell Univ. Pr.; London; Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1998.
  EnvDesign NA6695.A74 1998
• Museums and American intellectual life, 1876-1926 / Steven Conn. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, c1998.
  Main Stack AM11.C64 1998; on order for EnvDesign
• Precedent analysis compilation on museums. Cathy Simon and Alan Kawasaki. Berkeley: University of California, Department of Architecture. Professional report (Master of Architecture) Fall 1997.
  EnvDesign fNA25.41.1997 P735
• Re-imagining the museum : beyond the mausoleum / Andrea Witcomb. London; New York: Routledge, 2003. Museum meanings.
  EnvDesign, Anthro, Main Stack AM7.W585 2003

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Selected Subject Terms:
Commercial buildings (LC)
Office buildings (LC)
Skyscrapers (LC)

• Building type basics for office buildings. A. Eugene Kohn, Paul Katz. 2002. NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
  EnvDesign NA6230.K64 2002
• Tower without ends [video]. UCB Only Produced and directed by Bryn Higgins. Windfall Films for BBC. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1995. Metropolis (Princeton, N.J.) 29 min. Traces the design and construction of an office tower, and the history and design of office buildings and skyscrapers.
  Media Center VIDEO/C 8390
• 21st century office: architecture and design for the new millennium. Jeremy Myerson and Philip Ross. New York: Rizzoli; London: Troika, 2003.
  EnvDesign NA6230.M94 2003

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Selected Search Terms:
Amusement parks (LC)
Business parks (LC)
Greenbelts (LC)
National parks (LC)
Open spaces (LC)
Parks--United States--Buildings (LC)
Pedestrian areas (LC)
Playgrounds (LC)
Plazas--Typology
Recreational areas (LC)
Research parks ((LC)
Urban parks (LC)

• City parks. Produced by Actuality Productions Inc. for the History Channel; written and produced by Shelley Ann Lawrence. [videorecording] [New York, NY]: A&E Television Networks: New Video Group [distributor], 1999. 50 min.
  Media Center VIDEO/C MM13
• "The courthouse square: a study of four types" / Matthew J. Bell. New city 1993-1994 Winter, n.2:36-51.
  EnvDesign NA9000.N48 n.2, 1993/94 bound periodicals
• Defining the sustainable park: a fifth model for urban parks / Galen Cranz, Michael Boland. Landscape journal, v.23, n.2: 102-120, 2004. bibl. Identifies 4 types of parks and suggests a 5th new one.
  Online UCB Only
  EnvDesign SB469 .L34 v.23, 2004
• Great American amusement parks: a pictorial history / Gary Kyriazi. Secausus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1976.
  EnvDesign GV1851.A35K971 1976
• Park and the town: public landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries / George F. Chadwick. London: Architectural Press, 1966. Covers development of public parks in US & Europe. Illus., bibl, plans.
  EnvDesign SB481.C47
• Park practice design. Washington, D.C., Park Practice Program. 1957-72. Illus., plans & details for hundreds of park buildings and structures. Cum. Index.
  EnvDesign SB482.A4.N28 Ref v.1-4
• The Social life of small urban spaces / Municipal Art Society of New York; by William H. Whyte. [videorecording] Los Angeles, CA: Direct Cinema Limited, 1990.60 min. Important documentary on the design and use of small urban spaces. Investigates the factors which encourage and inhibit the use of plazas, and makes recommendations for their successful design.
  Media Center VIDEO/C 2395
• Urban spaces I: streets and squares / Francisco Asensio Cerver. Barcelona: Arco Editorial Board, 1994. World of environmental design, v.1.
  EnvDesign fNA9070.A84 1994

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Selected Search Terms:
Arenas (LC)
Baseball fields (LC)
Fairgrounds (LC)
Gymnasiums (LC)
Health resorts (LC)
Parks (LC)
Physical fitness centers (LC)
Recreation centers (LC)
Recreational areas (LC)
Sports facilities (LC)
Stadiums (LC)
Swimming pools (LC)

• Athletic & recreational facilities. Tokyo: Meisei Publications, 1994. New concepts in architecture & design.
  EnvDesign GV413.A8 1994
• Building type basics for recreational facilities. Richard J. Diedrich. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2005. Building type basics series.
  EnvDesign NA2543.R43 D54 2005 Reference
• Handbook of sports and recreational building design, ed. by Geraint John and Kit Campbell. 2nd ed. Oxford [England]; Boston: Butterworth Architecture, 1993. v. 1, Outdoor sports; v.2, Indoor sports; v. 3, Swimming pools and ice rinks.
  EnvDesign GV413.H36 1993 Ref 3 vols

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See also Graduate Theological Union Library.

Selected Search Terms:
Catholic church buildings (LC)
Church architecture (LC)
Church buildings (LC)
Churches (LC)
Liturgy and architecture (LC)
Monasteries (LC)
Mosques (LC)
Protestant church buildings (LC)
Religious Facilities (LC)
Synagogues (LC)
Temples (LC)

• American churches / Roger G. Kennedy. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang : Distributed by Workman Pub. Co., 1982.
  Morrison Rm NA5205.K46 1982 Non-Circulating; On order for EnvDesign
• Building type basics for places of worship. Nicholas W. Roberts. Hoboken, N.J.: J.Wiley & Sons, 2004. Building type basics series.
  Table of contents
  EnvDesign BL580 .R63 2004
• Church building / Joseph Rykwert. New York: Hawthorn Books [1966] Twentieth century encyclopedia of Catholicism; v. 120, Section 12, Catholicism and the arts.
  EnvDesign NA4800.R9, Main Stack NA4800.R951 1966
• Churches & temples / Paul Thiry, Richard M. Bennett, and Henry L. Kamphoefner. New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp. [1954, c1953]. Progressive architecture library.
  EnvDesign NA4600.T47
• From synagogue to church: the traditional design, its beginning, its definition, its end. John Wilkinson. London; New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002.
  EnvDesign NA4690.W46 2002
• Gothic revival & American church architecture; an episode in taste, 1840-1856 / Phoebe B. Stanton. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press [1968] Johns Hopkins studies in nineteenth-century architecture.
  EnvDesign, Moffitt NA5210.S7
• Houses of God: region, religion, and architecture in the United States / Peter W. Williams. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Public expressions of religion in America.
  EnvDesign NA5205.W55 1997
• How the other half worships. Camilo J. Vergara. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005. See especially chap. 4, "Architecture, Design, and Urbanism."
  Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip057/2005002523.html
  EnvDesign BV637.V47 2005
• Meetinghouse & church in early New England / Edmund Ware Sinnott. New York: McGraw-Hill [1963].
  EnvDesign NA5215.S5
• Modern church architecture; a guide to the form and spirit of 20th century religious buildings / Albert Christ-Janer and Mary Mix Foley. New York: Dodge Book Dept., McGraw-Hill, 1962. Dodge books.
  EnvDesign NA4800.C46
• Synagogue architecture in the United States; history and interpretation. Rahel Vishnitser-Bernshtain. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1955. Jacob R. Schiff library of Jewish contributions to American democracy.
  EnvDesign NA4690.W5

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Selected Search Terms:
Bars (LC)
Cafes
Coffee shops (LC)
Coffeehouses (LC)
Delicatessens (LC)
Diners (LC)
Drive-in restaurants (LC)
Ethnic restaurants<
Fast food restaurants (LC)
Food industry and trade (LC)
Restaurants (LC)

• Cafes & Bistros / Martin M. Pegler. New York, N.Y: Retail Reporting Corp, 1998.
  EnvDesign NK2195.R4.P34 1998
• Car hops and curb service: a history of American drive-in restaurants, 1920-1960 / Jim Heimann. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, c1996.
  EnvDesign TX945.H45 1996
• Outstanding bar and restaurant designs, [ed. Olivier Boissiere]. Paris: Telleri, 1998. Arts of the habitat.
  EnvDesign NK2195.R4.O93 1998
• Restaurant details. [Francisco Asensio Cerver; transl., Harry Paul Carey]. New York, NY: Whitney Library of Design, 1998.Plans of architecture.
  EnvDesign NA7855.A85 1998

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Selected Search Terms:
Arcades (LC)
Chain stores (LC)
Commercial buildings (LC)
Convenience stores (LC)
Farmers markets (LC)
Grocery trade (LC)
Markets (LC)
Shopping Centers (LC)
Shopping Malls (LC)
Stores, Retail (LC)
Supermarkets (LC)

• Building type basics for retail and mixed-use facilities. Stephen A. Kliment, Jerde Partnership with Vilma Barr. New York: Wiley, 2004. Building type basics.
  Table of contents
  EnvDesign HF5429 .B672 2004
• The buildings of Main Street: a guide to American commercial architecture. Richard Longstreth. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 1987. Building watchers series.
  EnvDesign NA6212.L66 1987
• Fabulous food shops / Jane Peyton. Chichester ; Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Academy, 2005. Interior angles.
  EnvDesign NK2195.S89.P49 2005
• Shopping center development handbook. Michael D. Beyard, W. Paul O'Mara et. al. 3rd ed. Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 1999.
  EnvDesign HF5430.B48 1999

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Selected Search Terms:
City planning (LC)
Garden walks (LC)
Pedestrian areas (LC)
Streets (LC)
Trails (LC)
Urban beautification (LC)

• The boulevard book: history, evolution, design of multiway boulevards / Allan B. Jacobs, Elizabeth Macdonald, and Yodan Rofe. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c2002.
  EnvDesign TE279.J33 2002
• Great streets / Allan B. Jacobs. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, c1993.
  EnvDesign NA9053.S7.J23 1993
• Making paths & walkways: stone, brick, bark, grass, pebbles & more / Paige Gilchrist Blomgren. Asheville, NC : Lark Books, c2000.
  EnvDesign TH4970.B56 2000
• Streets and the shaping of towns and cities / Michael Southworth, Eran Ben-Joseph. New York: McGraw-Hill, c1997.
  EnvDesign TE279.S58 1997
• Trails for the twenty-first century: planning, design, and management manual for multi-use trails / Charles A. Flink, Kristine, Olka, Robert M. Searns; Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Island Press, c2001.
  EnvDesign GV191.4.T73 2001
• Urban design: street and square / Cliff Moughtin. 2nd ed. Boston: Architectural Press, 1999.
  EnvDesign NA9053.S7.M68 1999

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Selected Search Terms:
Amphitheaters (LC)
Arts facilities (LC)
Cultural centers
Drive-in theaters (LC)
Entertainment facilities (LC)
Motion picture theaters (LC)
Theater, Open-air
Theaters (LC)

• Great American movie theaters / David Naylor. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, c1987. Great American places series. National Trust guide (Washington, D.C.)
  EnvDesign NA6846.U6.N394 1987 Reference
• The show starts on the sidewalk: an architectural history of the movie theatre, starring S. Charles Lee. Maggie Valentine. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
  EnvDesign NA737.L42.V36 1994
• Theater design. George C. Izenour. 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
  EnvDesign NA6821.I94 1996 Noncirculating

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Selected Search Terms:
Bus Terminals (LC)
Railroad stations (LC)
Roadside rest areas (LC)
Toll plazas (LC)
Transportation buildings

• Architecture of transportation. London: Academy Editions; New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Architectural design profile 109.
  EnvDesign NA6370.A7 1994
• Building type basics for transit facilities. Kenneth Griffin, Stephen A. Kliment. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. Building type basics series.
  EnvDesign NA6316.G75 2004
• The railroad station; an architectural history. Carroll L.V. Meeks. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956. Yale historical publications. History of art; 11.
  EnvDesign NA6310.M4

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Selected Search Terms:
Coasts (LC),
Harbors (LC),
Piers (LC),
Water resources development (LC),
Waterfronts (LC),
Wharves (LC)

• Fishing piers: what cities can do / by Ann Breen and Dick Rigby. Washington, D.C.: Waterfront Press, 1986.
  EnvDesign HT167.B6761 1986
• The planning and design of waterfront facilities: a bibliography / David Kent Ballast. Monticello, Ill.: Vance Bibliographies, [1988]. Architecture series--bibliography; A-2121.
  EnvDesign NA200.A12.A7 no.2121 Index
• Waterfront development / L. Azeo Torre. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1989.
  EnvDesign HT175.T661 1989
• Waterfronts: cities reclaim their edge / Ann Breen and Dick Rigby. New York: McGraw-Hill, c1994.
  EnvDesign HT167.B679 1994

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