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David Macaulay: Bibliography
Selected Text for Reading
David Macaulay: The Art of Drawing Architecture
Selected Bibliography
On Islamic Architecture, Sinan, and the Mosque:
Blair, Sheila S. and Jonathan M. Bloom. The Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250-1800. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
Freely, John. Sinan: Architect of Suleyman the Magnificent. London: Thames and Hudson, 1992.
Frishman, Martin and Hassan-Uddin Khan, eds. The Mosque: History, Architectural Development and Regional Diversity. London: Thames and Hudson, 2002.
Goodwin, Godfrey. History of Ottoman Architecture. London: Thames and Hudson, 2003.
Gunay, Reha. Sinan: The Architect and His Works. Translated by Ali Ottoman. Milet Publishing Ltd, 1999.
Hillanbrand, Robert. Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Kuban, Dogan. Sinan: An Architectural Genius. Bern: Ertug & Kocbiyik, 1999.
Kuran, Aptullah. Sinan : The Grand Old Master of Ottoman Architecture. Washington, DC & Istanbul, Turkey: ITS & Ada Press, 1987.
Mainstone, R.J. Hagia Sophia: Architecture, Structure and Liturgy of Justinian’s Great Church. London: Thames and Hudson, 1988.
Necipoglu, Gulru. Arben N. Arapi, and Reha Gunay. The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.
On Drawing in Architecture and Engineering:
Edwards, Betty. The New Drawing and the Right Side of the Brain. New York: Tarcher, 1999.
Edwards, Brian. Understanding Architecture Through Drawing. London: E & FN Spon, 1994.
Ferguson, Eugene. Engineering and the Mind’s Eye. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992.
Fraser, Ian and Rod Henmi. Envisioning Architecture: An Analysis of Drawing. London: John Wiley and Sons, 1994.
Friedman, Jonathan Block. Creation in Space: A Course in the Fundamentals of Architecture. Volume 1: Archtectonics, second edition. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt 2000.
Lefevre, Wolfgang. Picturing Machines, 1400-1700. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004.
Norling, Ernest R. Perspective Made Easy. New York: Dover, 1939.
Rankin, David J. Fast Sketching Techniques. North Light Books, 2000.
Rauderbaugh, Robert A. Visualization, Sketching and Freehand Drawing for Engineering Design. Scroff Development Corporation, 1999.
Robbins, Edward. Why Architects Draw. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994.
Petroski, Henry. Invention by Design, How Engineers get from Thought to Thing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Petroski, Henry. New Adventures in Engineering. New York: Knopf, 2004.
On Archeology, Material Culture, and Visual Knowledge:
Arnheim, Rudolf. Visual Thinking. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.
Auslander, Leora, “Beyond Words,” American Historical Review 110, no. 4 (October 2005).
Hodder, Ian. ed. Archeological Theory Today. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
Hodder, Ian. The Archeological Process. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999.
Grassby, Richard, “Material Culture and Cultural History,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 35, no. 4 (2005): 591-603.
Latour, Bruno. “Visualization and Cognition: Thinking with Eyes and Hands,” Knowledge and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Culture Past and Present 6 (1986): 1-40.
Richardson, Miles, “The Artefact as Abbreviated Act: A Social Interpretation of Material Culture,” in Ian Hodder, ed. The Meaning of Things (1989): 172-177.
On Piranesi:
Denison, Cara. et. al. Exploring Rome: Piranesi and His Contemporaries. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993.
Ficacci, Luigi. Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Köln: Tashen, 2006.
Robinson, Andrew. “Giovanni Battista Piranesi,” in The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, ed. J. Martineau and A. Robinson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
Wilton-Ely, John. Piranesi as Architect and Designer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
Weinreb Architectural Gallery at Henry Sotheran Ltd. Piranesi: Archeologist and Vedutista. London: B. Weinreb Architectural Books, 1987.
On Ruins and the Landscape:
Harbison, Robert. The Built, The UnBuilt, and the Unbuildable: In Pursuit of Architectural Meaning. (1991).
Macaulay, Rose. The Pleasure of Ruins. New York: Walker, 1966.
Roth, Michael. Irresistible Decay. Los Angeles: The Getty Institute, 1997. (Photographic essays.)
Simmel, George. “The Ruin,” in Kurt H. Wolff, ed. Essays on Sociology, Philosophy and Aesthetics New York: Harper and Row, 1965, 259-66.
Tilley, Christopher. A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments. Oxford, UK: Berg, 1994.
Woodward, Christopher. In Ruins. New York: Pantheon, 2001.
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