Environmental Design Library @ UC Berkeley

Building Science Resources - History

This selected bibliography is on the history of building materials, systems, technology, and construction techniques available at UC Berkeley. For finding information on current building science, see Building Science Resources.

Compiled by Susan Koskinen. Content reviewed:

• Ancient Athenian building methods / prepared by John McK. Camp II and William B. Dinsmoor, Jr. [Athens] : American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1984. Excavations of the Athenian Agora.
EnvDesign Design TH76. A86. C36 1984
• Ancient building technology / by G.R.H. Wright. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2000-
EnvDesign TH16 .W76 2000
• Ancient Rome : art, architecture and history / Ada Gabucci; edited by Stefano Peccatori and Stefano Zuffi ; translated by T.M. Hartmann. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002.
EnvDesign N5760 .G32 2002; Main N5760 .G32 2002
• Architectural file. New York [etc.], Sweet's Catalogue Service.
EnvDesign fTH455.S8 Noncirculating. Library has: 1906, 1913 1920, 1923
• The architectural plates from the "Encyclopedie" / edited by Denis Diderot. New York : Dover, c1995.
EnvDesign NA2840 .A73 1995
• Architectural technology up to the scientific revolution : the art and structure of large-scale buildings / Robert Mark, editor. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1993.
EnvDesign TH15 .A73 1993
• Architecture and geometry in the age of the Baroque / George L. Hersey. Chicago:Univ of Chicago Press, 2000.
EnvDesign NA956 .H47 2000
• Building the Georgian city / James Ayres. New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, c1998.
EnvDesign NA966 .A98 1998
• Building the nineteenth century / Tom F. Peters. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1996.
EnvDesign TA19 .P47 1996; Engineering TA19 .P47 1996
• Buildings : a pictorial history of developments in buildings over the last millennium / Sue Hamilton. Edina, MN: Abdo Pub.Co., 2000.
EnvDesign NA2555 .H36 2000
• The built surface Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2002. Includes bibliographical refs and indexes, v.1. Architecture and the pictorial arts from antiquity to the Enlightenment / edited by Christy Anderson ; v.2. Architecture and the pictorial arts from Romanticism to the twenty-first century / edited by Karen Koehler.
EnvDesign N72.A75 B85 2002 v.1-2(c2002)
• Cathedrals and castles : building in the Middle Ages / Alain Erlande-Brandenburg ; [translated from the French by Rosemary New York : H.N. Abrams, 1995. Discoveries (New York, N.Y.)
EnvDesign NA350.E7513 1995
• Concrete : the vision of a new architecture / Peter Collins; foreword by Kenneth Frampton ; introduction by Rejean Legault. 2nd ed. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004.
**History of reinforced concrete up to 1914, focuses on August Perret, his life and career.
EnvDesign NA4125.C6 2004
• Construction : craft to industry / Gyula Sebestyen. London ; New York : E & FN Spon, c1998.
EnvDesign TH15 .S43 1998
• Dictionary of tools used in the woodworking and allied trades, c. 1700-1970 / R.A. Salaman; foreword by Joseph Needham. London: Allen & Unwin, 1975.
EnvDesign TT186 S241 Reference
• Down to earth: foundations past and present : the invisible art of the builder / Jean Kerisel. Rotterdam ; Brookfield, VT : A.A. Balkema, 1991 c1987.
Engineering TA15.K44 1991
• Encyclopedia of architectural and engineering feats / Donald Langmead and Christine Garnaut. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2001.
EnvDesign NA200 .L32 2001 Reference
• Engineer's contribution to contemporary architecture. / John Chilton. London: Thomas Telford, 2000.
(Series) Search under series title.
• Edwardian architecture: style and technology / Richard Fellows. London: Lund Humphries, c1995.
EnvDesign NA967 .F38 1995
• The fireproof building: technology and public safety in the nineteenth-century American city / Sara E. Wermiel. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000. Studies in industry and society.
EnvDesign TH1065.W47 2000
• Gothick architecture: a reprint of the original 1742 treatise /Batty Langley and Thomas Langley. Dover ed. Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2003.
EnvDesign NA2840.L195 2003
• Great building stories of the past / Peter Kent. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
EnvDesign NA2555 .K46 2001
• The great works of mankind. New York, Golden Press [1962].
EnvDesign NA200 .B632
• The Gothic enterprise: a guide to understanding the Medieval cathedral/ Robert A. Scott. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
EnvDesign NA440.S425 2003
• Historical building construction : design, materials, and technology / Donald Friedman. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c1995.
EnvDesign TH3361 .F75 1995
• A history of Knowles & Son : Oxford builders for 200 years, 1797-1997. David Sturdy. Oxford : B.A.R., c1997.
Anthropology DA690. O98 S78 1997
• A history of building materials/ Norman Davey. London : Phoenix House, 1961.
Includes types of materials & architectural uses with photos, diagrams, drawings and reference lists.
EnvDesign TA403.D3 1961a Reference
• History of public works in the United States, 1776-1976 / by American Public Works Association; editor, Ellis L. Armstro. Chicago : The Association, c1976.
EnvDesign HD3885.A631 1976 Reference

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• Industry, architecture, and engineering : American ingenuity, 1750-1950 / by Louis Bergeron and Maria Teresa Maiullari-Pontois; foreword by Eric DeLony ; translated by Jane Marie Todd. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2000.
EnvDesign NA6402 .B4713 2000
• Les Chantiers de la Renaissance : actes des colloques tenus a Tours en 1983-1984 / etudes reunies par Jean Guillaume. Paris: Picard, 1991.
Main TH17 .C53 1991
• The mediaeval builder and his methods. [East Ardsley, Eng., EP Publishing;Totowa, N.J.Rowman & Littlefield, 1974.
EnvDesign TH17 .A51 1974
• Principles of Roman architecture / Mark Wilson Jones. New Haven: Yale University Press, c2000.
EnvDesign NA310.W55 2000
• Rise of the New York skyscraper, 1865-1913 / Sarah Bradford Landau & Carl W. Condit. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1996.
EnvDesign NA6232 .L36 1996
• The roots of architectural invention : site, enclosure, materials / David Leatherbarrow. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
EnvDesign NA2540.5.L43 1993
• The stone skeleton : structural engineering of masonry architecture / Jacques Heyman. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Engineering TA676 .H49 1995
• The story of the Roman amphitheatre / D.L. Bomgardner. London; New York: Routledge, 2000.
EnvDesign NA313 .B66 2000
• Structural evolution : an illustrated history / B.S. Benjamin. Lawrence, Kan. : A.B. Literary House, c1990 : A.B. Literary House, c1990.
EnvDesign TA646 .B45 1990
• Structure in architecture : history, design and innovation / Rowland J. Mainstone. Aldershot, Great Britain; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate/Variorum, c1999.
EnvDesign TA658 .M35 1999; Main TA658 .M35 1999
• Technics and architecture : the development of materials and systems for buildings / Cecil D. Elliott. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1992.
EnvDesign TH18 .E45 1992; Engineering TH18 .E45 1992
• The Top 10 construction achievements of the 20th century / Elizabeth Baker. Wadhurst, England : KHL International, 1999. Series title: The classic construction series.
EnvDesign f TH145 .T66 1999
• Transitions in engineering: Guillaume Henri Dufour and the early 19th century cable suspension bridges / Tom F. Peters. Basel [Switzerland] ; Boston : Birkhauser Verlag, 1987.
Engineering TG400 .P481 1987
• The trussed roof : it's history and development / David T. Yeomans. Aldershot, England : Scolar Press ; Brookfield, Vermont : Ashgate Pub. Co., c1992.
EnvDesign TH2392 .Y46 1992
• Twentieth-century building materials : history and conservation /edited by Thomas C. Jester.New York: McGraw-Hill, c1995
EnvDesign TA403.6 .T87 1995
• Uncommon structures, unconventional builders / by Alan Van Dine. New York:Black Dog &Leventhal Pub, 2001.
EnvDesign TH148 .V26 2001
• Water technology in the Middle Ages : cities, monasteries, and waterworks after the Roman Empire / Roberta J. Magnusson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology. Based on a UCB dissertation, "Medieval water supplies" 1994.
Includes an extensive notes section and a primary sources explanation.
EnvDesign TC455.M34 2001
• The wise master builder : Platonic geometry in plans of medieval abbeys and cathedrals / Nigel Hiscock. Aldershot, England; Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, c2000.
EnvDesign NA4850.H57 2000
• World War II and the American dream / exhibition organized by Donald Albrecht; essays by Margaret Crawford. Washington, D.C. : National Building Museum; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1995.
EnvDesign HD7293 .W67 1995
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