B A S I C A R C H I T E C T U R A L R E S E A R C H
Pursuing research on an individual building, group of buildings, or architect requires patience, method, and persistence. The results can be alternately gratifying and frustrating. Rarely is all the material you may want or need in one library or repository.
Library catalogs for books
Summary of types of books
Guides to New York architecture
New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designation reports.
Dolkart, Andrew. Guide to New York City Landmarks. New York: Wiley, 1998. Pollack reserve F128.18 .D65 1998.
AIA Guide to New York City by
Hailed as "extraordinarily learned" (New York Times), "blithe in spirit and unerring in vision," (New York Magazine), and the "definitive record of New York's architectural heritage" (Municipal Art Society), Norval White and Elliot Willensky's book is an essential reference for everyone withan interest in architecture and those who simply want to know more about New York City.First published in 1968, the AIA Guide to New York City has long been the definitive guide to the city's architecture. Moving through all five boroughs, neighborhood by neighborhood, it offers the most complete overview of New York's significant places, past and present. The Fifth Edition continuesto include places of historical importance--including extensive coverage of the World Trade Center site--while also taking full account of the construction boom of the past 10 years, a boom that has given rise to an unprecedented number of new buildings by such architects as Frank Gehry, NormanFoster, and Renzo Piano. All of the buildings included in the Fourth Edition have been revisited and re-photographed and much of the commentary has been re-written, and coverage of the outer boroughs--particularly Brooklyn--has been expanded. Famed skyscrapers and historic landmarks are detailed, but so, too, are firehouses, parks, churches, parking garages, monuments, and bridges. Boasting more than 3000 new photographs, 100 enhanced maps, and thousands of short and spirited entries, the guide is arranged geographically by borough, witheach borough divided into sectors and then into neighborhood. Extensive commentaries describe the character of the divisions.Knowledgeable, playful, and beautifully illustrated, here is the ultimate guided tour of New York's architectural treasures.
Andrea Palladio, Villa Rotonda, 1567-ca. 1590
