Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre, 2014, Zaha Hadid

Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre, 2014, Zaha Hadid

 
“Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless”
— Zaha Hadid

Textbooks

  1. Modern Architecture Since 1900, By: William J.R. Curtis,  3rd Edition, Phaidon Press, 1996  ISBN: 0714833568

  2. Interior Design Since 1900, By: Anne Massey,  4th Edition Thames & Hudson World of Art Revised and Expanded in 2020 ISBN: 978-0-500-20460-3

Recommended (books used in ID 246)

  1. Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture*, Edited by Cyril M. Harris, Dover Publications, 1983.ISBN-13: 978-0486244440

  2. Understanding Architecture: Its Elements: History and Meaning* By: Leland Roth, 2nd Edition, University of Oregon Press, 2007, ISBN-13: 978-0-8133-9045-1

Provided Articles

  1. Ornament in Architecture, by Louis Sullivan

  2. Ornament & Crime, by Adolf Loos

  3. People Who Live in Glass Houses, by Alice Friedman

  4. The Duck and The Decorated Shed, by Robert Venturi

  5. The Death of Modernism, by Charles Jencks

 

Provided Readings

The following chapters are provided while you are waiting for your books to arrive.  Order the books ASAP. Due to copy-wright issues, not all chapters can be provided free of charge. 

Texts:

Modern Architecture Since 1900, by W.J.R. Curtis

  1. Curtis, Chapter 1

  2. Curtis, Chapter 2

  3. Curtis, Chapter 3

  4. Curtis, Chapter 4

  5. Curtis, Chapter 5

  6. Curtis, Chapter 6

  7. Curtis, Chapter 7

  8. Curtis, Chapter 8

  9. Curtis, Chapter 9

  10. Curtis, Chapter 10

Interior Design Since 1900, by A. Massey, 3rd Edition (not the current textbook)

  1. Massey, Chapter 1 & 2