Task for week 7: Final 12 sources

There are 2 main and 10 supporting sources to support my discussion in essay:


Main source 1) Zevi, Bruno, Towards an organic architecture, London: Faber and Faber Limited.

(I have taken a chapter of this book to discuss about the meaning of the term "organic strucuture" and discuess through the diferent meaning and how it approach to architectural design aspect.)


Supported by :


1.1) Sergeant, John, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian Houses: The case for organic architecture, New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1976.

(This book is to support the idea of how the organic architecture is like by loking at some of Frank Lloyd Wright's works to gain this understanding)


1.2) Curtis, William J.R., Modern architecture since 1900, New York: Phaidon Press, 1996.

(More of the organic architecture works by different architects, this is to shape the idea and support the undersatnding of the meaning of organinc architecture)
1.3) Wright, Frank Lloyd, An Organic Architecture, London: Lund Humphries & Co.Ltd., 1939.

(An example of organic architecture from Frank Lloyd Wright, an architect whose famous in designing organic architecture)


1.4) Sullivan, Louis; Benton, Tim; Benton, Charlotte, Ornament in architecture 1982, London : Crosby Lockwood Staples, 1975.

(Some of theelement on the architect which is related to organic reference term, this source is used to establih the idea and understanding toward organic strucutre, in terms of meaning and its design)


1.5) Pearson, David, Earth to Spitit: In Search of Natural Architecture, Australia: An Augus & Robertson Publication, 1994.

(Another perspective toward architecture, naturlism is focused in this book, help to link the term organic and natural together and so realte it back to organic architecture)

Main source 2) Powell, Kenneth, Architecture of the future: Richard Rogers, Switzerland: Birkhauser-Publishers for Architecture, 2006.

(This is the second main source , discuss about the floating architecture, with an example of building to discudd in essay in terms of design approach, space and location)

Supported by:


2.1) Bognar, Botond, Hiroshi Hara: The ‘Floating World’ of his Architecture, Great Britain: Wiley-Academy, 2001.

(The book is to explain the meaning of floating architecture, establishing the great understanding to the meaning of this term)


2.2) Heuvel, Wim J. Van, Structuralism in Dutch architecture, Amsterdam: Cutch Ministry of Welfare, Health and Culture Affairs, 1992.

(Some if the Dutch archiecture are clissified as floating architecture, understand more of the aspect of floating architecture and wher to location is, can help to support the idea in the review of the main source)

2.3) Giedion, Sigfried, Space, time and architecture, Cambridge Cambridgeshire: Harvard University Press, 1967.

(This book chpter focus on the term "space" since it is realted to the space and location of the topic, understand this text then help to support the idea toward the reviews)


2.4) Behne, Adolf, No longer shaped space but designed reality, Santa Monica, CA: Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities 1996.

(Another text that talk about pace but in opposite direction, the text creating a contrast between to two architects so give more information and detail to the discussion)

2.5) Rowntree, Diana, Buildings face the future : is there perhaps more to architecture than you think?, Corbridge, England: Architype, 1994.

(The text about the architecture that could possibly built in the future, as floating architecture seem to be like a future architecture, this text guide through the rough idea of what the future architecture is and so lead to undersatnding of floating architecture)