Syllabus

ARCHITECTURE 170
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ARCH 170 - Introduction to the Built Environment

TEXTBOOKS

NOTE: These are typical texts used in the course.
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Required:
  • Ching, Francis D.K., Architecture: Form Space and Order, Van Nostrand Reinhold.
  • Supplemental Readings for Architecture 170, Kendall/Hunt Publishers

Optional Additional References (Available in the Architecture Library):

  • * Cuff, Dana, Architecture: The Story of Practice, MIT Press.
  • * Lewis, Roger, Architect?, MIT Press.
  • Rybczinski, Witold, Home: The Short History of an Idea, Penguin Books.
  • Kostof, Spiro, The City Shaped, Bulfinch Press - Little, Brown & Company.
  • Norberg-Schultz, Christian, Intentions in Architecture, MIT Press.
  • Rasmussen, Steen E., Experiencing Architecture, MIT Press.

  • Tidwell, Mike, The Ravaging Tide, Free Press 2007.

    * Recommended for students enrolled in the Architecture Program or those who may wish to enroll in the future. The Architecture Library, on the upper floor of the Architecture Building, has copies of all the texts.