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A selection of books on houses and house design.

• Research Tips
• 20C Houses
• Contemporary Houses
• Small Houses

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Research Tips

• Search for general books on houses in Cameo using search terms like:
  • house
  • houses
  • domestic architecture
    
• Browse books with call numbers 728, especially 728.37, in the STACKS-4 and OVRSZQ-4 locations.

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20C Houses

• Boissière, Olivier. Twentieth-Century Houses, Europe. Paris: Pierre Terrail Editions, 1998.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728.094 B68T

• Davies, Colin. Key Houses of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006.
  HUNT FA-REF-4 728.37 D25k
  MUS-OFC-4 728.37 D25k DISC
  Plans, section, and elevation drawings of key twentieth-century houses. Book is accompanied by a CD-ROM with the drawings as .eps and .dxf files.
  

• Dunster, David. Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century. 2 vols. New York: Rizzoli, 1985; London: Butterworth Architecture, 1990.
  HUNT FA-REF-4 724.9 D92k
  Documents major 20th-century buildings in plans drawn to the same scale (1:250). The two volumes are: Houses, 1900-1944, and Houses, 1945-1989.

• Frampton, Kenneth. American Masterworks: The Twentieth Century House. New York: Rizzoli, 1995.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728.37 F81A

• Haraguchi, Hideaki. A Comparative Analysis of 20th-Century Houses. New York: Rizzoli, 1989.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728.37 H25C

• Kurrent, Friedrich, editor. Scale Models: Houses of the 20th Century. Boston; Basel; Berlin: Birkhäuser, 1999.
  HUNT FA-REF-4 728.3 S281

• Masterpieces, 1945-1970. Tokyo, Japan: A.D.A. edita, 2001.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728.37 M423

• Masterpieces, 1971-2000. Tokyo, Japan: A.D.A. edita, 2001.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728.37 M4232

• Oshima, Tadashi and Toshiko Kinoshita, guest editors. Visions of the Real: Modern Houses in the 20th Century, [I-II]. Tokyo: A + U Pub. Co., 2000.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728 V831

• Plummer, Henry. The Potential House: Three Centuries of American Dwelling. Tokyo: A + U, 1989.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728.0973 P73K

• Schezen, Roberto. Private Architecture: Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century. New York, N.Y.: The Monacelli Press, 1998.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728.37 S32P

• Sudjic, Deyan. Home: The Twentieth-Century House. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1999.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728.09 S94H

• Weston, Richard. Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004.
  HUNT FA-REF-4 724.6 W53k
  MUS-OFC-4 724.6 W53k DISC
  Plans, section, and elevation drawings of key twentieth-century buildings. Book is accompanied by a CD-ROM with the drawings as .eps and .dxf files.

• Weston, Richard. Twentieth-Century Residential Architecture. New York: Abbeville Press, 2002.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728.37 W53T

• Zabalbeascoa, Anatxu. Houses of the Century. Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 1998.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728.37 Z12H

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Contemporary Houses

• Arieff, Allison. Prefab. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 2002.
  HUNT STACKS-4 728.37 A69P

• Doubilet, Susan and Daralice Boles. American House Now: Contemporary Architectural Directions. New York: Universe Pub., 2002.
  HUNT STACKS-4 728.0973 D72AA

• Gast, Klaus-Peter. Living Plans: New Concepts for Advanced Housing. Basel; Boston: Birkhäuser, 2005.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728.09 G25L

• Gómez, Lola and Cristian Montes. The Next House. Barcelona: LOFT; New York: HBI, 2002.
  HUNT STACKS-4 728.37 G63N
  

• Ho, Cathy Lang and Raul A. Barreneche. House: American Houses for the New Century. New York: Universe, 2001.
  HUNT STACKS-4 728.0973 H67H
  
• Jones, Will. The New Modern House. New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2005.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728.09 J79N

• Melhuish, Clare. Modern House 2. London: Phaidon, 2000.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728 m52m

• The New American House [1-4]: Innovations in Residential Design and Construction. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1995-2003.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728.0973 N532

• Pierre d'Avoine Architects. Housey Housey: A Pattern Book of Ideal Homes. London : Black Dog Pub., 2005.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 720.82 P62H

• Riley, Terence. The Un-Private House. New York: Museum of Modern Art: Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1999.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728 R57U

• Salazar, Jaime. Single-Family Housing: The Private Domain. Basel; Boston: Birkhäuser; Barcelona: Actar, 1999.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728.37 S16S

• Schittich, Christian, ed. In Detail: Single Family Houses: Concepts, Planning, Construction. Berlin: Birkhäuser, c2000.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728 S33I

• Smith, Courtenay. Xtreme Houses. Munich: New York: London: Prestel, 2002.
  HUNT STACKS-4 728.37 S64X

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Small Houses

• Asensio Cerver, Francisco. Mini House. New York: Harper Design International, 2003.
  HUNT STACKS-4 728 M665

• Pople, Nicolas. Small Houses: Contemporary Residential Architecture. New York: Universe Publishing, 2003.
  HUNT STACKS-4 728.37 P82S

• Richardson, Phyllis. XS: Big Ideas, Small Buildings. New York: Universe, 2001.
  HUNT STACKS-4 720 R52X
  

• Tamborini, Susanne. Living in a Small Space: Experimental Projects From Four Continents. Stuttgart: Edition Axel Menges, 1999.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728 T15L

• Trulove, James Grayson. 25 Houses Under 2500 Square Feet. New York: Harper Design International, 2002.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728 T86T

• Trulove, James Grayson and Il Kim. The New American Cottage: Innovations in Small-Scale Residential Architecture. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1999.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-4 728.37 N532

• Walker, Les. A Little House of My Own: 47 Grand Designs for 47 Tiny Houses. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2000.
  HUNT STACKS-4 728.37022 W18L

Compiled by Kai Gutschow and Martin Aurand.