Texts and Reference Texts

Required Reading: Urban Design Theory

Calvino, Italo. Invisible Cities. Vintage Classics.
Gregotti, Vittorio et al. “Modification”. Casabella. And Architecture and Territory. from Inside Architecture.
Jackowski, Nannette and Richardo de Ostos. Ambitious Spaces. Princeton Architectural Pres. New York.
Jacobs, Allan B. Great Streets. MITP.
Peterson, Steven. “Urban Design Tactics”. Architectural Design Profile 49, no. 3-4 (1979).
Rossi, Aldo. The Architecture of the City. McGraw Hill.
Rowe, Colin & Koetter, Fred. Collage City. MITP.

Required Reading: Istanbul and Turkey

Pamuk, Orhan. Istanbul. Alfred A. Knopf.
De Amicis. Constantinople. Hesperus Press.
Eldem, Edhem. Goffman, Daniel. Masters, Bruce. The Ottoman City Between East & West. Cambridge University Press.
Freely, John. John Freely’s Istanbul. Scala.
Kinzer, Stephen. Cresent and Star – Turkey Between Two Worlds. Farrah Straus Giroux.

Reference Texts:
Istanbul Narrative

Pamuk, Orhan. Istanbul. Alfred A. Knopf.
De Amicis. Constantinople. Hesperus Press.
Freely, John. John Freely’s Istanbul. Scala.
Kaplan, Robert. Eastward to Tartary. Vintage.
Settle, Mary Lee. Turkish reflections. Simon & Schuster.

Istanbul Urban Design

Eldem, Edhem. Goffman, Daniel. Masters, Bruce. The Ottoman City Between East & West. Cambridge University Press.
Petruccioli, Attilio and Pirani, Khalil ed. Understanding Islamic Architecture. Routledge Curzon.
Celik. Zeynep. The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century. University of Washington Press.

Istanbul City Reference

Chamber of Architects of Turkey, Istanbul Metropolitan Branch. Architectural Guide to Istanbul.
Besigi, Uygarliklar. Bellegi, Kent. Sureklilikler, Mekansal. Istanbul – Cradle of Civilizations Collective Memory, Spatial Continuities. Istanbul Buyuksehir.
Koprulu, Tuna. Istanbul – The Capital of Cultures. Istanbul Buyuksehir.
Le Corbusier and Ivan Zaknic. Journey to the East. The MIT Press.

Istanbul References Bibliography

Antoniou, Jim. Cities Then & Now. Macmillan.
Bozdogan, Sibel. Modernism and Nation-Building — Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic. University of Washington Press.
Bozdogan, Sibel. Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey. University of Washington Press.
Busquets, Joan, ed. Aleppo: Rehabilitation of the Old City. Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Celik, Zeynep. Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth-Century World’s Fair. University of California Press.
Cerasi, Maurice., Bugatti, Emiliano., and D’Agostino, Sabina. The Istanbul Divanyolu: A Case Study in Ottoman Urbanity and Architecture. Ergon Verlag Wurzburg in Kimmission.
Foster, Sabiha, ed. Istam + Architecture. Wiley Academy.
Freely, John. Istanbul, the Imperial City. Viking.
Hamadeh, Shirine. The City’s Pleasures: Architectural Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul. MIT Press.
Hourani, Albert. A History of Arab Peoples. Warner Books.
Kuban, Dogan. Istanbul, an Urban History; Byzantine, Constantinopolis, Istanbul. The Economic and Social History Foundation of Turkey.
Kuban, Dogan. The Turkish Hayat House. Even Yayincilik ve Kitapcilik Ltd. Sti..
Kuban, Dogan. Ottoman Architecture. Antique Collector’s Club.
Kuran Aptullah. Sinan: The Grand Old Master of Ottoman Architecture. ADA Press.
Lampl, Paul. Cities and Planning in the Ancient Near East. George Braziller.
Maclagan, Michael. Ancient Peoples and Places: The City of Constantinople. Frederick A. Praeger.
Maclagan, Michael. The City of Constantinople. Praeger.
Necipoglu, Gulru. The Age of Sinan — Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire. Princeton University Press.
Orbay, Iffet Istanbul Viewed: The Representation of the City in Ottoman Maps of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. MIT Press.
Pamuk, Orhan. My Name is Red. Vintage International.
Pamuk, Orhan. Snow. Vintage International.
Pamuk, Orhan. The Black Book. Vintage International.
Pamuk, Orhan. The White Castle. Vintage International.
Petruccioli, Attilo and Pirani, Khalil K., eds. Understanding Islamic Architecture. Routledge Curzon.
Sarkis, Hashim., Dwyer, Mark., and Kibarer, Paris. Two Squares. Harvard University Press.
Sumner-Boyd, Hilary and Freely, John. Strolling Through Istanbul. KPI Paperbacks.
Tekeli, Ilhan. The Development of the Istanbul Metropolitan Area; Urban Administration and Planning. lula- Emme.

Urban Design Bibliography

Calvino, Italo. Invisible Cities. Vintage Classics.
Celik, Zeynep., Farvo, Diane., and Ingersoll, Richard. Streets: Crtiical Perspectives on Public Space. University of California Press.
Gregotti, Vittorio et al. “Modification.” Casabella. And Architecture and Territory. from Inside Architecture. Jacobs. Allan B. Great Streets. MITP.
Kostof, Spiro. The City Assembled. Little Brown.
Kostof, Spiro. The City Shaped. Little Brown.
LeGates, Richard T. and Stout, Frederic, eds. The City Reader. Routledge.
Nesbitt, Kate, ed. Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture. Princeton Architectural.
Peterson, Steven. “Urban Design Tactics”. Architectural Design Profile 49, no. 3-4 (1979).
Rossi, Aldo. The Architecture of the City. McGraw Hill.

Urban Design & Architecture
Holl, Steven. Urbanisms: Working with Doubt. Princeton Architectural Press.

Precedent Books
Tschumi, Bernard. The New Acropolis Museum. Skirt Rozzoli. New York.
Abraham, Raimund. Unbuilt. Springer.
Hejduk, John. The Mask of Medusa: Works 1947-1983. Rizzoli International Press.
Hejduk, John. Pewter Wings, Golden Horns, Stone Veils. The Montacelli Press.
Eisenman, Peter & Jean-Francois Bedard. Cities of Artificial Excavation. Rizzoli.
Woods, Lebbeus. Architectural Monographs: Lebbeus Woods — Anarchitecture : Architectural is a Political Act.
Woods, Lebbeus. OneFiveFour. Princeton Architectural Press.

(Reference list provided by Professor Weldon Pries.)