Japanese Architecture

1. Oxford Art Online

Includes "Grove Art Online"—the online equivalent of the 34 volumes of the print version of The Dictionary of Art, plus updates since the print version.)

2. Oxford Reference Online

Art and Architecture; social, political, religious history; history of ideas; all periods.

3. Textbooks on Course Reserves.

4. References

Japan

The Art and Architecture of Japan. N7350 .P3 1981

The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art:

Major themes in Japanese art. NK4167 .E3213
Shinto art: Ise and Izumo Shrines. NA6057.I79 W3713
Temples of Nara and Their Ar.t NA6057.N3 O5513
Heian Temples: Byodo-in and Chuson-ji. N8193.3.P8 F8413
Feudal Architecture of Japan. NA7451 .H4813
Momoyama Decorative Painting. ND1053.4 .D6413 1977
Edo Architecture, Katsura and Nikko. NA1553.5 .O3713
Traditional Domestic Architecture of Japan. NA7451 .I8413
The Garden Art of Japan. SB458 .H3813

General

Encyclopedia of Architectural Technology. NA31.E58

Encyclopedia of Architecture. NA31.E59 1988

International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture. NA40.I48 1993

Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World. NA208.E53 1997

Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. NA31.H32 1993

Biographical

Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects. NA40.M25 1982

Makers of 20th Century Modern Architecture. NA 680.J628 1997

Bibliography

All About Old Buildings. NA106.A44 1985

Terminology

Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. NA31.H32 1993

Subject Encyclopedias/dictionaries & Textbooks provide:

1. thorough introductions and summaries of major architectural movements in their historical and social contexts

2. and with cross-references to related topics and bibliographies; bio-bibliographies of architects

3. and their built works and visionary projects, writings, ideals, etc. in critical context.

Readings on Course Reserves.

Barton, catalog of Rotch Library at MIT.

WorldCat (catalogs of libraries worldwide)

Procedure Note:

1. Verify if Tufts Library has the book you need.

2. Use ILliad (interlibrary loan service) to request non-Tufts books.

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Path of Discovery in the Catalogs

1. Find a title/author (assigned readings/Course Reserves);

2. Note the descriptive language of the Catalog record.

3. Use that language in further searches

e.g. Click on subject/author in the record to see further results and related topics.

Author	Nute, Kevin, 1958-
Title	Place, Time, and Being in Japanese Architecture.
Publisher	London; New York, NY: Routledge, 2004.
Subject	Architecture -- Japan

Keyword Search on building types

Architect* and Japan* and (domestic* or resident*)

japan* and ("tea house*" or "tea room*")

japan* and architect* and garden*

japan* and architect* and temple*

1. include "and" in between keywords;
2. "or" and ( ) to nest related/varied expressions;
3. architect* for all forms: architect, architects, architectural, etc.

Keyword search on style/period

(Shoin or Sukiya) and architect*

edo and architect*

Search for Architects

Subject browse (by last name)

Isozaki Arata

Keyword search

"Shigeru Ban"

1. Search, individually or simultaneously, these Databases:

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
ARTbibliographies Modern

2.

JSTOR (with omission of the current years)
Project Muse (with current years only)

3.

Bibliography of Asian Studies

Additional Database

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Click on the number to pause the slide.

Avery Index and JSTOR

Avery Index, by virtue of its depth and comprehensiveness, is a must-use for an architectural research paper.

JSTOR includes only 22 architectural journals at this point, with the omission of the latest 3-5 years of the journals.

Click to browse two major journals in architectural history:

The Initial Keywords to Use

1. Books and Articles that inspired your research idea:
e.g., in your syllabus, or on Course Reserves?

2. Questions you have about your topic in the context of this course?
e.g. How does your topic relate to an issue or issues discussed in class?

3. Some typical elements in your research question?
e.g. your chosen building in relation to its type of buildings?

4. What specific evidence you will be examining and how?
e.g. a specific visual evidence, or a question about the original documents?

Range of Keywords—Scope of a Research Question

The previous questions and your answers may overlap and relate to each other; identify and state these relationships.

Search with a whole range of keywords: the building, its type, the city or the country, its period, its client/patron, its materials, its setting/site, the architect and his/her theory and ideals, etc.

your keywords MATCH database language=SUCCESS

Use your initial findings in a database to learn the language used in the discussion of your topics.

For example, citations, in Avery, on the fairly recent project "the Big Dig House in Lexington, Massachusetts" presents such subject headings/descriptors as "Adaptive reuse", "Construction and demolition debris"

A second example is the search on the "Wellesley College Library" in Avery. There are few articles on the building itself at this point. However, a search on the architect discovers articles on their past and related works—Libraries--University and College.

Finding Full Texts

1. Click on the button to these three options:

a. link to the full text of the article when available digitally;

b. link to a Library Catalog search for the journal in print that contains your article.

c. link to ILliad for requesting the article when the above two options are negative.

2. Search for a journal directly here:

a.Tufts Library Catalog (including e-journals)
b. Electronic journals list
c. Use ILliad to request your article, if Tufts does not have your journal.

Related Databases:

Read a Couple of Articles Carefully and Identify:

the "problem" addressed (the thesis of the article);

the central debates on this problem;

the major arguments by the author;

the methods applied in making these arguments;

the evidence (e.g., visual/formal details, original documents, or secondary sources);

if the conclusions are based on speculations, are they convincing?

Throughout your reading:

Compare and contrast methods by authors: key points of difference or convergence

Note controversies and weaknesses; explain and clarify gaps

How about the presentation, logic and clarity of the article?

State your own positions; provide your own interpretations and critiques

Current (United States and International)

Ethnic, Altenative and Independent Press

Historical

American Periodicals (1740 - 1900)
The Nation Digital Archive (1865 - present)
Time Magazine (1923-Present)
New York Times Online Archive
(1851 - 3 years before current date)
African American Newspapers - 19th Century
American Newspapers (1690 - 1922)
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (British)
19th Century British Newspapers
British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)
Times Digital Archive (1785 - 1985)

Factiva includes content in over 22 languages from over 150 countries and 350 geographic regions.

In print:

Books and journals with color plates, photographs, and other visuals are excellent sources; these illustrations are usually done professionally and/or are commissioned works serving as the official records of the built works. Here is a sample:

Architecture of Authority / Oversize: TR659 .R6294 2007. Photographs and afterword by Richard Ross; essays by John R. MacArthur. New York: Aperture; London: Thames & Hudson [distributor], 2007.

Digital

Artifact (Tufts University)

Cities/Buildings Image Archive

Digital Archive of European Architecture

International Architecture Database

Oxford Art Online

ARTstor

American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920

A Digital Archive of American Architecture

Tips: search the Library Catalog for books with images

Click on the searches below for real time results; note the search pattern:

architectural drawing and united states

architectural drawing and wright

architecture details and (modern or 19th century)

architectural rendering

architecture designs and plans and (modern or 20th century)

More to click on:

(architect* or building*) and united states and pictorial works

monuments and pictorial works

architect* and photo*

architect* and exhibition*

Using the Chicago Manual of Style:

The Manual presents two basic documentation systems, the humanities style (notes and bibliography) and the author-date system.

Consult Chicago Manual of Style Online for detailed guidance.

Print copy at the Reference Desk: Z253 .U69 2003

Brief samples (the humanities style):

Book Citation in a bibliography:

Steiner, Hadas A. Beyond Archigram: the structure of circulation. New York: Routledge, 2009.

Book Citation in a note:

Fernando Luiz Lara, The rise of popular modernist architecture in Brazil (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, c2008), 35.

Article citation in a bibliography:

Wright, Gwendolyn. "Cultural History: Europeans, Americans, and the Meanings of Space." The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 64, no. 4 (2005), 436-440.

Article citation in a note:

Ralph E. Griswold, "Wright Was Wrong," Landscape Architecture 53 (April 1963), 190-214.

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