Building and Landscape Types: Specific Building and Landscape Types

• Furnishing the old-fashioned garden: three centuries of American summerhouses, dovecotes, pergolas, privies, fences & birdhouses. May Brawley Hill. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1998.
• Gazebos: the architects' and builders' companion: the most elegant and useful designs of gazebos and other slight slight structures. Peter Joel Harrison. Richmond, Va.: Dietz press, 1995.
• Greenhouses and conservatories. Olivier de Vleeschouwer. Paris: Flammarion; London: Thames & Hudson, 2001.
• Porches, decks & outbuildings: the best of Fine homebuilding. Newtown, Conn.: Taunton Press, 1997.

See also History and Literature of Landscape Architecture.

Selected Search Terms: 

Cabanas (LC)
Gazebos (LC) 
Greenhouses (LC)
Sheds (LC)

• Creating period gardens / Elizabeth Banks. Oxford [England]: Phaidon; Washington, D.C. : Preservation Press, 1991.
• Garden design: history, principles, elements, practice / by William Lake Douglas … [et al.] New York: Simon and Schuster, c1984. (Series: A Quarto book.)
• Garden history: philosophy and design, 2000 BC - 2000 AD / Tom Turner. London: NY: Spon Press, 2005.
• Garden styles / Kathleen S. Dickason. Lincolnwood, Ill : Publications International, c1996.
• Landscape architecture: an illustrated history in timelines, site plans, and biography / William A. Mann. New York: John Wiley, c1993.
• Modern garden design: innovation since 1900 / Janet Waymark. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003.

See also History and Literature of Landscape Architecture.

Selected Search Terms: 

Gardens--Design
Gardens--History
Gardens--Styles
Landscape gardening
Parks

• Building type basics for healthcare facilities: a building type basics handbook. Richard L. Kobus … [et al.]. New York: Wiley, 2000. Building type basics series.
• Guidelines for design and construction of hospital and health care facilities. The American Institute of Architects Academy of Architecture for Health, with assistance from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.1996-97 [ed]. Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Architects Press, 1996.
• The hospital: a social and architectural history / John D. Thompson and Grace Goldin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975.
• Hospital and healthcare facility design / Richard L. Miller and Earl S. Swensson. 2nd ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c2002.
• Mending bodies, saving souls: a history of hospitals. Guenter B. Risse. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ALso ebook.

Selected Search Terms: 

Health facilities (LC)
Clinics (LC)
Hospitals (LC)

• Building type basics for hospitality facilities / Brian McDonough [et al.]. New York: Wiley, c2001. Building type basics series.Table of Contents 
• Cafes & coffee shops / Martin M. Pegler, ed. New York: Retail Reporting Corp.: McGraw-Hill, Inc., c1995.
• Fast food: roadside restaurants in the automobile age / John A. Jakle & Keith A. Sculle. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Road and American culture.
• Mission 66 visitor centers: the history of a building type / Sarah Allaback. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 2000. Also ebook.
• The motel in America / John A. Jakle, Keith A. Sculle, Jefferson S. Rogers Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Road and American culture.

Selected Search Terms: 

Bars (LC) 
Casinos (LC) 
Hotels (LC) 
Motels (LC) 
Pubs 
Resort architecture (LC) 
Roadside architecture (LC) 
Taverns (LC) 
Visitors centers(LC)

• Alternative housing for older adults: a typology. Gary T. Moore, Kathryn H. Simmons & Marleen M. Sobczak. Milwaukee, Wis.: Center for Architecture and Urban Planning Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1985. Publications in architecture and urban planning. Working paper WP85-17.
• Apartment buildings : plan atlas. Pilar Chueca; William George; Marta Rojals; Jay Noden. [Spain?] : Links, 2009.
• Building type basics for housing. Robert Chandler [et al.] Hoboken, N.J.: J. Wiley & Sons, 2005. Building type basics.Table of contents 
• Field guide to American houses. Virginia and Lee McAlester. New York: Knopf, 1984.
• Habitation space. [Milan, Italy, Habitation Space (International) S.N.C.] 1979-81. Comparative catalog of modern domestic architecture with plans, elev., photos of hundreds of building types worldwide; organized by type: apartment buildings, single-family homes, hotels and multi-family residences.
• Rural & urban house types in North America. Steven Holl. San Francisco: Pamphlet Architecture and William Stout Architectural Books, 1983. Pamphlet architecture; no. 9.
• 6,000 years of housing. Norbert Schoenauer. Rev. & expanded ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000. Excellent with many illustrations, plans.
• Visual dictionary of American domestic architecture. Rachel Carley. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1994.Henry Holt reference book.
• Wood, brick, and stone: the North American settlement landscape / Allen G. Noble. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984. v.1: Houses, v.2: Barns and farm structures.

Selected Search Terms: 

Apartment buildings 
Apartment houses (LC) 
Architecture domestic (LC) 
Condominiums (LC) 
Congregate housing (LC) 
Dwellings (LC) 
Highrise apartment buildings (LC) 
Lofts (LC) 
Mobile homes ( LC) 
Nursing homes (LC) 
Old age homes (LC) 
Public housing (LC) 
Row houses (LC) 
Yurts (LC)

• Commerce and industry / the National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings. Historic Sites Survey. [Washington]: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1966. National survey of historic sites and buildings. Theme 17-b.
• Factory. Gillian Darley. London: Reaktion, 2003. Objekt. History and design of factories.
• Industrial buildings: a design manual / Jurgen Adam, Katharina Hausmann, Frank Juttner. Basel; Boston: Birkhauser Publishers for Architecture, 2004. Includes history, design and construction, examples, bibliography.
• The works: the industrial architecture of the United States / Betsy Hunter Bradley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Selected Search Terms: 

Architecture, industrial (LC)
Factories (LC)
Industrial buildings (LC)

• Free to all: Carnegie libraries & American culture, 1890-1920. Abigail A. Van Slyck. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
• Henry Hobson Richardson and the small public library in America: a study in typology / Kenneth A. Breisch. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997.
• Library as place: rethinking roles, rethinking space. Geoffrey T. Freeman et al.Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2005. Perspectives on the evolving library.
• Planning academic and research library buildings / Philip D. Leighton, David C. Weber. 3rd ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1999, 2000. Excellent detailed overview of academic library design with details, measurements and resources.
• Planning the modern public library building. Gerard B. McCabe and James R. Kennedy, eds. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited, 2003. Libraries Unlimited library management collection.

See also Library Design.

Selected Search Terms: 

Academic libraries (LC)
Libraries (LC)
Library architecture (LC)
Public libraries (LC)

• The art of memory: Holocaust memorials in history, ed. by James E. Young [et al.]. New York, N.Y.: Prestel: Prestel/Neues Pub. Co., 1994.
• Monument builders: modern architecture and death. Edwin Heathcote. Chichester: Academy Editions, 1999.
• Monuments and memory, made and unmade, ed. by Robert S. Nelson and Margaret Olin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
• "Planning Memory: Living Memorials in the United States during World War II" / Andrew M. Shanken. Art bulletin, v.84 n.1:130-147, Mar. 2002.  Discusses origin and types of functional memorials, e.g. community centers, libraries, forests, highways. Bibliography.
• War memorials: from antiquity to the present. Alan Borg. London: Leo Cooper, 1991.

Selected Search Terms: 

Funerary monuments 
Holocaust memorials (LC) 
Memorials (LC) 
Public sculpture (LC) 
Sepulchral monuments (LC) 
Soldiers monuments (LC) 
Tombs (LC) 
War memorials (LC)

• Architecture in the public realm, ed. by Deborah Dietsch and Susanna Steeneken. [New York]: Columbia University, Graduate School of Architectureand Planning: Distributed by Rizzoli International Publications, 1981. Precis v. 3.
• Court house: a photographic document, ed. by Richard Pare; conceived and directed by Phyllis Lambert. New York: Horizon Press, 1978.
• Institutional architecture: the design of health care, educational, municipal, and justice facilities. Paul Silver and David Miles Ziskind. Glen Cove, N.Y.: PBC International, 1993. Architecture & interior design library.
• Public buildings: a survey of architecture of projects constructed by federal and other governmental bodies between the the years 1933 and 1939. Public Works Administration, C.W. Short and R. Stanley-Brown. [Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] 1939.
• U.S. courts design guide. [3rd ed.] Washington, D.C : Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Space and Facilities Division, [1991]. Also ebook.

Selected Search Terms: 

City halls (LC) 
Civic buildings 
Civic centers (LC) 
Courthouses (LC) 
Municipal buildings 
[name of place--Public buildings] (LC) 
Public architecture (LC) 
Public buildings (LC)

• Building type basics for museums. Arthur Rosenblatt; Stephen A. Kliment, ed. New York: Wiley, 2001. Building type basics series.
• Curators and culture: the museum movement in America, 1740-1870 / Joel J. Orosz. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c1990. History of American science and technology series. Also ebook.
• Marble palaces, temples of art: art museums, architecture, and American culture, 1890-1930. Ingrid A. Steffensen-Bruce. Lewisburg [Pa]: Bucknell Univ. Pr.; London; Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1998.
• Museums and American intellectual life, 1876-1926 / Steven Conn. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, c1998.
• Precedent analysis compilation on museums. Cathy Simon and Alan Kawasaki. Berkeley: University of California, Department of Architecture. Professional report (Master of Architecture) Fall 1997.
• Re-imagining the museum : beyond the mausoleum / Andrea Witcomb. London; New York: Routledge, 2003. Museum meanings.

Selected Search Terms: 

Art galleries, Commercial (LC) 
Art museums (LC) 
Childrens museums (LC) 
Historical museums (LC) 
Museum architecture (LC) 
Museum buildings (LC) 
Museums (LC) 
Science museums (LC)

• Building type basics for office buildings. A. Eugene Kohn, Paul Katz. 2002. NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
• Tower without ends [video]. UCB Only Produced and directed by Bryn Higgins. Windfall Films for BBC. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1995. Metropolis (Princeton, N.J.) 29 min. Traces the design and construction of an office tower, and the history and design of office buildings and skyscrapers.
• 21st century office: architecture and design for the new millennium. Jeremy Myerson and Philip Ross. New York: Rizzoli; London: Troika, 2003.

Selected Subject Terms: 

Commercial buildings (LC)
Office buildings (LC)
Skyscrapers (LC)

• City parks. Produced by Actuality Productions Inc. for the History Channel; written and produced by Shelley Ann Lawrence. [videorecording] [New York, NY]: A&E Television Networks: New Video Group [distributor], 1999. 50 min.
• "The courthouse square: a study of four types" / Matthew J. Bell. New city 1993-1994 Winter, n.2:36-51.
• Defining the sustainable park: a fifth model for urban parks / Galen Cranz, Michael Boland. Landscape journal, v.23, n.2: 102-120, 2004. bibl. Identifies 4 types of parks and suggests a 5th new one.
• Great American amusement parks: a pictorial history / Gary Kyriazi. Secausus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1976.
• Park and the town: public landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries / George F. Chadwick. London: Architectural Press, 1966. Covers development of public parks in US & Europe. Illus., bibl, plans.
• Park practice design. Washington, D.C., Park Practice Program. 1957-72. Illus., plans & details for hundreds of park buildings and structures. Cum. Index. Also online.
• The Social life of small urban spaces / Municipal Art Society of New York; by William H. Whyte. [videorecording] Los Angeles, CA: Direct Cinema Limited, 1990.60 min. Important documentary on the design and use of small urban spaces. Investigates the factors which encourage and inhibit the use of plazas, and makes recommendations for their successful design.
• Urban spaces I: streets and squares / Francisco Asensio Cerver. Barcelona: Arco Editorial Board, 1994. World of environmental design, v.1.

Selected Search Terms: 

Amusement parks (LC) 
Business parks (LC) 
Greenbelts (LC) 
National parks (LC) 
Open spaces (LC) 
Parks--United States--Buildings (LC) 
Pedestrian areas (LC) 
Playgrounds (LC) 
Plazas--Typology 
Recreational areas (LC) 
Research parks ((LC) 
Urban parks (LC)

• Athletic & recreational facilities. Tokyo: Meisei Publications, 1994. New concepts in architecture & design.
• Building type basics for recreational facilities. Richard J. Diedrich. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2005. Building type basics series.
• Handbook of sports and recreational building design, ed. by Geraint John and Kit Campbell. 2nd ed. Oxford [England]; Boston: Butterworth Architecture, 1993. v. 1, Outdoor sports; v.2, Indoor sports; v. 3, Swimming pools and ice rinks.

Selected Search Terms: 

Arenas (LC) 
Baseball fields (LC) 
Fairgrounds (LC) 
Gymnasiums (LC) 
Health resorts (LC) 
Parks (LC) 
Physical fitness centers (LC) 
Recreation centers (LC) 
Recreational areas (LC) 
Sports facilities (LC) 
Stadiums (LC) 
Swimming pools (LC)

• American churches / Roger G. Kennedy. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang : Distributed by Workman Pub. Co., 1982.
• Building type basics for places of worship. Nicholas W. Roberts. Hoboken, N.J.: J.Wiley & Sons, 2004. Building type basics series.Table of contents 
• Church building / Joseph Rykwert. New York: Hawthorn Books [1966] Twentieth century encyclopedia of Catholicism; v. 120, Section 12, Catholicism and the arts.
• Churches & temples / Paul Thiry, Richard M. Bennett, and Henry L. Kamphoefner. New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp. [1954, c1953]. Progressive architecture library.
• From synagogue to church: the traditional design, its beginning, its definition, its end. John Wilkinson. London; New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002.
• Gothic revival & American church architecture; an episode in taste, 1840-1856 / Phoebe B. Stanton. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press [1968] Johns Hopkins studies in nineteenth-century architecture.
• Houses of God: region, religion, and architecture in the United States / Peter W. Williams. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Public expressions of religion in America.
• How the other half worships. Camilo J. Vergara. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005. See especially chap. 4, "Architecture, Design, and Urbanism." Table of contents 
• Meetinghouse & church in early New England / Edmund Ware Sinnott. New York: McGraw-Hill [1963].
• Modern church architecture; a guide to the form and spirit of 20th century religious buildings / Albert Christ-Janer and Mary Mix Foley. New York: Dodge Book Dept., McGraw-Hill, 1962. Dodge books.
• Synagogue architecture in the United States; history and interpretation. Rahel Vishnitser-Bernshtain. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1955. Jacob R. Schiff library of Jewish contributions to American democracy.

See also Graduate Theological Union Library.

Selected Search Terms: 

Catholic church buildings (LC) 
Church architecture (LC) 
Church buildings (LC) 
Churches (LC) 
Liturgy and architecture (LC) 
Monasteries (LC) 
Mosques (LC) 
Protestant church buildings (LC) 
Religious Facilities (LC) 
Synagogues (LC) 
Temples (LC)

• Cafes & Bistros / Martin M. Pegler. New York, N.Y: Retail Reporting Corp, 1998.
• Car hops and curb service: a history of American drive-in restaurants, 1920-1960 / Jim Heimann. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, c1996.
• Outstanding bar and restaurant designs, [ed. Olivier Boissiere]. Paris: Telleri, 1998. Arts of the habitat.
• Restaurant details. [Francisco Asensio Cerver; transl., Harry Paul Carey]. New York, NY: Whitney Library of Design, 1998.Plans of architecture.

Selected Search Terms: 

Bars (LC) 
Cafes 
Coffee shops (LC) 
Coffeehouses (LC) 
Delicatessens (LC) 
Diners (LC) 
Drive-in restaurants (LC) 
Ethnic restaurants< 
Fast food restaurants (LC) 
Food industry and trade (LC) 
Restaurants (LC)

• Building type basics for retail and mixed-use facilities. Stephen A. Kliment, Jerde Partnership with Vilma Barr. New York: Wiley, 2004. Building type basics.Table of contents 
• The buildings of Main Street: a guide to American commercial architecture. Richard Longstreth. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 1987. Building watchers series.
• Fabulous food shops / Jane Peyton. Chichester ; Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Academy, 2005. Interior angles.
• Shopping center development handbook. Michael D. Beyard, W. Paul O'Mara et. al. 3rd ed. Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 1999.

Selected Search Terms: 

Arcades (LC) 
Chain stores (LC) 
Commercial buildings (LC) 
Convenience stores (LC) 
Farmers markets (LC) 
Grocery trade (LC) 
Markets (LC) 
Shopping Centers (LC) 
Shopping Malls (LC) 
Stores, Retail (LC) 
Supermarkets (LC)

• The boulevard book: history, evolution, design of multiway boulevards / Allan B. Jacobs, Elizabeth Macdonald, and Yodan Rofe. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c2002.
• Great streets / Allan B. Jacobs. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, c1993.
• Making paths & walkways: stone, brick, bark, grass, pebbles & more / Paige Gilchrist Blomgren. Asheville, NC : Lark Books, c2000.
• Streets and the shaping of towns and cities / Michael Southworth, Eran Ben-Joseph. New York: McGraw-Hill, c1997.
• Trails for the twenty-first century: planning, design, and management manual for multi-use trails / Charles A. Flink, Kristine, Olka, Robert M. Searns; Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Island Press, c2001.
• Urban design: street and square / Cliff Moughtin. 2nd ed. Boston: Architectural Press, 1999.

Selected Search Terms: 

City planning (LC)
Garden walks (LC)
Pedestrian areas (LC)
Streets (LC)
Trails (LC)
Urban beautification (LC)

• Great American movie theaters / David Naylor. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, c1987. Great American places series. National Trust guide (Washington, D.C.)
• The show starts on the sidewalk: an architectural history of the movie theatre, starring S. Charles Lee. Maggie Valentine. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
• Theater design. George C. Izenour. 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

Selected Search Terms: 

Amphitheaters (LC) 
Arts facilities (LC) 
Cultural centers 
Drive-in theaters (LC) 
Entertainment facilities (LC) 
Motion picture theaters (LC) 
Theater, Open-air 
Theaters (LC)

• Architecture of transportation. London: Academy Editions; New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Architectural design profile 109.
• Building type basics for transit facilities. Kenneth Griffin, Stephen A. Kliment. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. Building type basics series.
• The railroad station; an architectural history. Carroll L.V. Meeks. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956. Yale historical publications. History of art; 11.

Selected Search Terms: 

Bus Terminals (LC)
Railroad stations (LC)
Roadside rest areas (LC)
Toll plazas (LC)
Transportation buildings

• Fishing piers: what cities can do / by Ann Breen and Dick Rigby. Washington, D.C.: Waterfront Press, 1986.
• The planning and design of waterfront facilities: a bibliography / David Kent Ballast. Monticello, Ill.: Vance Bibliographies, [1988]. Architecture series--bibliography; A-2121.
• Waterfront development / L. Azeo Torre. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1989.
• Waterfronts: cities reclaim their edge / Ann Breen and Dick Rigby. New York: McGraw-Hill, c1994.

Selected Search Terms:

Coasts (LC), 
Harbors (LC), 
Piers (LC), 
Water resources development (LC), 
Waterfronts (LC), 
Wharves (LC)