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Adapting Timber Churches to Canada (Week 5-6 Activities)

Memories of Habitat (Week 17-18 Activities)

Unit 1: Re-interpreting Historical Traditions

Sauf Pompiers Ltd. (n.d.). MindMup. MindMup. https://www.mindmup.com/
artandfilm21. (2016, January 13). Augustus Pugin. Gothic revivial. The art of gothic documentary clip. [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZYr0AX7Cwk
Merrill, E. M. (2015, November 28). Otto Wagner, Postal savings bank. Smarthistory. https://smarthistory.org/otto-wagner-postal-savings-bank/
Paden, R. (2010). Otto Wagner's modern architecture. Ethics, Place & Environment, 13(2), 229–246. https://doi.org/10.1080/13668791003778883
Oliver, S. (2004). Basil Oliver and the end of the arts and crafts movement. Architectural History, 47, 329–360. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066622X00001799
Ottewill, D. (1979). Robert Weir Schultz (1860–1951): An arts and crafts architect. Architectural History, 22, 88–172. https://doi.org/10.2307/1568373
Whipple, D. (1978). Textile designs and books by William Morris. The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 65(7), 247–257. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159593
Morris, W. (2016). The craftsman. Forgotten Books. 
Stacked. (2020, May 5). Robie House Frank Lloyd Wright [3D Model]. Sketchfab. https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/robie-house-frank-lloyd-wright-1ccdabdb36cc45208c62b26137b5850e

Unit 2: The Modern Movement and Anti-Ornament

François Hennebique. (2025, June 2). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fran%C3%A7ois_Hennebique&oldid=1293524636
Sveiven, M. (2011, April 13). AD classics: Wainwright building / Alder & Sullivan. ArchDaily. https://www.archdaily.com/127393/ad-classics-wainwright-building-louis-sullivan
Design Museum Gent. (2021, August 14). Adolf Loos' raumplan: Building plans in 3 dimensions [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuxfZf-Noww
Tozer, W. R. E. (2011). A theory of making: Architecture and art in the practice of Adolf Loos. [Doctoral dissertation, University College London]. UCL Discovery. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1331912/ pp. 205–220
Leatherbarrow, D. (1987). Interpretation and abstraction in the architecture of Adolf Loos. Journal of Architectural Education, 40(4), 2–9. https://doi.org/10.2307/1424868
Gusevich, M. (1988). Decoration and decorum, Adolf Loos's critique of Kitsch. New German Critique, 43, 97–123. https://doi.org/10.2307/488400
Jara, C. (1995). Adolf Loos's "raumplan" theory. Journal of Architectural Education, 48(3), 185–201. https://doi.org/10.2307/1425353
P. K. (2015, January 22). Steiner house. 3D Warehouse. https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/u62911401-60de-4b14-a164-159b4b8cd3e5/Steiner-House
Architecture Enthusiast. (2022, February 26). Steiner house by Adolf Loos | Architecture Enthusiast | [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDrUd4HQwxg
Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. (n.d.). Larkin company administration building. https://flwright.org/explore/larkin-company-administration-building
Sullivan, L. (1982). Ornament in architecture. Reading Design. https://www.readingdesign.org/ornament-in-architecture/
Anderson, S. (1997). The "new empiricism: Bay region axis": Kay Fisker and postwar debates on functionalism, regionalism, and monumentality. Journal of Architectural Education, 50(3), 197–207. https://doi.org/10.2307/1425471
Weisman, W. (1961). Philadelphia functionalism and Sullivan. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 20(1), 3–19. https://doi.org/10.2307/988149
D. D. (2014, November 29). Villa savoye. 3D Warehouse. https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/u30d67cae-f751-4fa2-a565-edff879008db/Villa-Savoye?hl=en
jason00018. (2007, December 11). Digital visualisation: Villa savoye [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ChtM71axgA
Peter Fuller's Vision Thing. (2008, October 22). Architectural wonders: Villa savoye [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aDT9xesSZc

Unit 3: New Responses to Site

Budden, B. L. (1916). The relation of exposition planning to civic design. The Town Planning Review, 6(3), 153–162. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40100745
Evans, A. P. (1933). Exposition architecture: 1893 versus 1933. Parnassus, 5(4), 17–22. https://doi.org/10.2307/771076
Rydell, R. W. (n.d.). World's Columbian Exposition. In Encyclopedia of Chicago. Retrieved June 11, 2025, from http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1386.html
UCLA. (2008, September 10). The world's Columbian Exposition of 1893 (The urban simulati [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3izaIpXcBU4
nw1018. (2010, November 10). World Columbian Expostion fair of 1893 (UCLA 3D recreation) [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSDusnazo8s
BlessedArch. (2024, March 29). The true story of Miles van der Rohe [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czOTUS926po
Di Capua, F. (2011, May 13). Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - German pavilion [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPDcNUBQwBw
jackdaniels24564. (2009, June 27). Barcelona pavilion [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS-wtAhzmKM
UE 4 Architecture. (2016, July 14). UE4Arch - Barcelona pavilion real-time archviz [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8RYYi6F3fc
Woudstra, J. (2000). The Corbusian landscape: Arcadia or no man's land? Garden History, 28(1), 135–151. https://doi.org/10.2307/1587124
Jeanneret, C.-E. (1929). A contemporary city. The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning. https://courses.washington.edu/gmforum/Readings/LeCorbusier.pdf
Mims, S. K. (1993). Experiencing architecture: Teacher residency at Fallingwater. Art Education, 46(1), 19–24. https://doi.org/10.2307/3193416
Vila, C. (2007, September 14). Fallingwater [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CVKU3ErrGM

Unit 4: New Technique, Materials and Visions

Middleton, G. A. T. (1921). Part II. Armoured concrete and masonry construction. Chapter 1. Armoured or reinforced concrete: Considerations governing its adoption. Chest of Books. https://chestofbooks.com/architecture/Modern-Buildings-Construction-V5/Part-II-Armoured-Concrete-And-Masonry-Construction-Chapter.html
Bauhaus Movement. (2017, June 30). Bauhaus school of design [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohIncBKnR50
Miley, G. (2021, September 29). E-1027 Eileen Gray [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkV1ecbihsk
Wolfe, R. (2011, September 27). Bruno Taut's "Russia's architectural situation" (1929). Modernist Architecture. https://modernistarchitecture.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/bruno-tauts-%E2%80%9Crussia%E2%80%99s-architectural-situation%E2%80%9D-1929/

Unit 5: Organic Design Approaches

Barbican Centre. (2007, August 24). Alvar Aalto - 'Through the eyes of Shigeru Ban' in Barbican art gallery [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLoBRlpuzeI
csxlab. (2012, January 28). Hans Scharous - Architecture [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgSSQebQuHw
Constant, C. (1994). E.1027: The nonheroic modernism of Eileen Gray. Jounral of the Society of Architectural Historians, 53(3), 265–279. https://doi.org/10.2307/990937
Rykwert, J. (1971). Eileen Gray: Two houses and an interior, 1926–1933. Perspecta, 13/14, 66–73. https://doi.org/10.2307/1566971
VirtuaaliViipuuri. (2010, November 5). VirtuaaliViipuri - Kaupungin kirajasto [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN8KKlEqs1E
Juanmilon21. (2011, December 13). Villa savoye UDK [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ1JDyIKLPs

Unit 6: The Purpose of Manifestos

Gold, J. R. (1998). Creating the charter of Athens: CIAM and the functional city, 1933–43. The Town Planning Review, 69(3), 225–247. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40113797
Honest Architect. (2023, February 1). Paris almost looked like this: Exploring Le Corbusier's plan voisin [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh03UweAhZg
Mumford, E. (2002). The CIAM discourse on urbanism, 1928–1960. MIT Press. https://www.academia.edu/71378257/The_CIAM_Discourse_on_Urbanism_1928_1960
The Open University. (2019, August 30). CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne). https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/heritage/ciam-congres-internationaux-darchitecture-moderne
Wolfe, R. (2011, September 8). CIAM's La Sarraz Declaration (1928). Modernist Architecture. https://modernistarchitecture.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/ciams-la-sarraz-declaration-1928/

Unit 7: The Responsibility for Housing

Sorkin, M. (1987). Dwelling machines. Design Quarterly, 138, 30–40. https://doi.org/10.2307/4091196
Matthews, Z. (2010, November 1). Le Corbusier, Chandigarh India [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPK9wmNH_CI
Souless7388. (2011, May 14). Broadacre city [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0VX8SExNps
The Podcast Team. (2022, February 15). Podcast: Panorama of the city of New York [Podcast episode]. Atlas Obscura. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/podcast-panorama-of-the-city-of-new-york

Unit 8: Industry and Commerce

Library of Congress. (2010, June 3). The skyscrapers of New York [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peBhEA3Xdq0
IMDB. (n.d.). Metropolis. Retrieved June 11, 2025, from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/
Cohen, S. (1982). The skyscraper as symbolic form. Design Quarterly, 118/119, 12–17. https://doi.org/10.2307/4091092
Hoffman, D. (1970). The setback skyscrapter city of 1891: An unknown essay by Louis H. Sullivan. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 29(2), 181–187. https://doi.org/10.2307/988652
History. (2010, February 5). Life after people: Tallest buildings | History [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8aLKHShv9o
ElusiveAtSeventyTwo. (2008, December 12). Harold Lloyd's "Safety last" - 1923 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEcTjhUN_7U

Unit 9: Modernism Outside of Europe

Fry, E. M. (1946). Town planning in West Africa. African Affairs, 45(181), 197–204. https://www.jstor.org/stable/718930
Levine, M. (2007). Globalization, architecture, and town planning in a colonial city: The case of Jaffa and Tel Aviv. Journal of World History, 18(2), 171–198. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20079422
Twombly, R. C. (1972). Undoing the city: Frank Lloyd Wright's planned communities. American Quarterly, 24(4), 538–549. https://doi.org/10.2307/2711688
Forless, J. (2010, August 16). Habitat 67 - Web mash up documentary [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCWZJBsHcQo&list=PL6C844E2AEA8302C8
Canadian Centre for Architecture. (n.d.). CD047, May Cutler collection on Expo 67. https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/search?page=2&_=1749670146114&digigroup=379544
Bernard, M., & Froome, G. [Directors]. (2012). Coast modern. Twofold Films.
McGill University Library. (n.d.). Habitat '67. The Moshe Safdie Archive. https://cac.mcgill.ca/moshesafdie/fullrecord.php?ID=10816&d=1

Assignments

Assignment 1
Trimble. (n.d.). SketchUp. 3D Warehouse. https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/
Assignment 3
Steyn, G. (2012). Le Corbusier's town-planning ideas and the ideas of history. University of Pretoria. https://repository.up.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/4740b22e-907d-47c1-918b-c021b97a3f01/content
Runway Five. (2012). The 1933 rendering of Plan Obus for Algiers demonstrates Le Corbusier’s superimposition of modern forms [Image attached]. Tumblr. Retrieved June 11, 2025, from https://runwayfive.tumblr.com/post/22700881151/the-1933-rendering-of-plan-obus-for-algiers
Assignment 4
Esri. (n.d.). ArcGIS StoryMaps. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/