Faculty Publications
Elastic Architecture: Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture (2017)
Elastic Architecture: Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture is the first scholarly book on the architecture of Frederick Kiesler, who was once dubbed as the “the greatest non-building architect of our time” by Philip Johnson back in 1960. Authored by Stephen Phillips, SPARCHS principal and an architecture professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, the 384-page hardcover book delves into Kiesler's interdisciplinary research and design practice. The book can be purchased through The MIT Press.
GA Houses Project (2011)
"The Blink House is an environmentally-themed demonstration house and small gallery space intended to be rented and occupied by private individuals and organizations who wish to experience a way of living that is more environmentally sensitive. Like other eco-sensitive demonstration house this project employees such "green" features as recycled and easily recyclable materials, low-consumption appliances and fixtures, and novel technologies for harvesting energy form the environment. "
Professor and architect Doug Jackson's project is featured in GA Houses Project 2011, issue 120. This book can be purchased through Hennessey and Ingalls.
Passive Solar Architecture: Heating, Cooling, Ventilation, Daylighting and More Using Natural Flows (2011)
"New buildings can be designed to be solar oriented, naturally heated and cooled, naturally lit and ventilated, and made with renewable, sustainable materials - no matter the location or climate. In this comprehensive overview of passive solar design, two of America's solar pioneers give homeowners, architects, designers, and builders the keys to successfully harnessing the sun and maximizing climate resources for heating, cooling, ventilation, and daylighting."
Professor emeritus and architect Kenneth Haggard's publication, co-authored with David A. Bainbridge, may be purchased on Amazon.
Passive Solar Architecture Pocket Reference (Ises: International Solar Energy Society) (2010)
"Our pocket reference books provide a wealth of practical information at your fingertips, whenever you need it. Rich in background detail, at-a-glance tables and diagrams, equations, and more, the Passive Solar Architecture Pocket Reference is a handy resource for architects, engineers and students. Coverage includes: - Definitions - Load determinants and Responses (including world wide biomes and climates, building metabolism and response, thermal sources and sinks, passive building responses to sources and sinks, tuning the building to the environment, optimizing insulation & thermal mass for comfort) - Contextual Aspects (including microclimate and siting, temperatures, humidity, wind, radiation and comfort parameters - Passive Components (including building envelope, passive solar terminology, orientation, apertures and glazing, thermal storage, thermal control and materials - Design Tools (including sun path diagrams, sun peg diagrams, air flow relationships, thermal modeling and life cycle design - Specific Functions (including passive heating, passive cooling and ventilation, natural lighting, passive water heating, resource collection and Integrated design)."
Professor emeritus and architect Kenneth Haggard's publication, co-authored with David A. Bainbridge and Rachel Aljilani, may be purchased on Amazon.
Architecture: 2009-2010 Faculty Scholarship (2010)
The publication is part of the Architectural Environment Design Press and can be purchased from Lulu Marketplace for $31.10 (128 pages, full-color, paperback) or downloaded in PDF format for $5.00.
For a complete list of all faculty scholarship activities, go to Research web page.
GA Houses Project (2010)
"The intention of The Elementals—a series of unique eco-tourism cabins sited throughout California—is to critique the prevailing resource-based ecological perspectives that presume to be able to afford a continuation of the contemporary way of living within the world through a vague appeal to resource conservation practices and new technologies. Rather, The Elementals have been designed to create architectural experiences that counteract this prevailing conceptual framework in order to change the way that individuals understand their relationship to the larger ecosystem. They experientially implicate the individual as an active and inevitable consumer of the natural environment by creating inhabitable scenarios in which the primary desire of the occupant—namely, the view of the surrounding landscape—is transformed into a limited resource that is “consumed” by the very act of occupation. Individuals are therefore provided with a rare opportunity to inhabit a no-win scenario—one which most closely resembles the contemporary world, and within which the only positive way forward is a radical paradigm shift in the way that humans perceive their relationship to the natural world. "
Professor and architect Doug Jackson's project is featured in GA Houses Project 2010, issue 115. This book can be purchased from Abe Books.
Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors (2010)
"Architecture Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors explores how a diverse, pan-European group of eighteenth patrons — among them bankers, bishops, bluestockings, and courtesans — used architectural space and decor to shape and express identity."
Marc Neveu's essay titled The Space of the Mask: From Sate to Ridotto is included in this publication and can be purchased from Ashgate Publishing.
GA Houses Project (2009)
"They wanted a house in which both space and time could be manipulated. They wanted to move activities into and out of adjacency with each other, to change the relationships of spaces relative to one another, to create spaces where none had existed before, and to invest these spaces with varying activities and a varying temporality."
Professor and architect Doug Jackson's Wormhole House is featured in GA Houses Project 2009, issue 109. This book can be purchased on Amazon.
Past Papers: National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (2009)
"The Louisiana Sate University School of Architecture is proud of its long tradition of leadership in beginning design education. The School has the distinction of hosting the National Conference on the Beginning Design Student three times over the past twenty five years and is proud that three of the School's faculty have been conference chairs, including one of the conference founders, Nicholas Markovich. The School is particularly honored to host the 25th commemorative conference this year and to accompany the occasion with the publication of Batture: Past papers of the National Conference on the Beginning Student."
Professor emeritus William Benedict's essay titled Parti: New Paint for an Old Lady is featured in this publication. This publication can be found in PDF form here.
Architecture: 2008-2009 Faculty Scholarship (2009)
For a complete list of all faculty scholarship activities, go to Research web page.
London: Architecture and Place (2009)
"The course was a new one written specifically for the London Study Summer 09 program. This pamphlet showcases the students' research on place during their stay in the United Kingdom."
Professor and architect Michael Lucas's publication may be purchased from Lulu Marketplace.
Getty Research Journal Number 1 • 2009
"The Getty Research Journal is a refereed journal that showcases work by scholars and staff associated with the Getty Research Institute and the other programs of the J. Paul Getty Trust. Essays focus on an object or aspect of the Getty's extensive archival, rare book, and artistic holdings or bear upon the annual research themes of the Research Institute of the Getty Villa. The journal also presents a selection of texts about new acquisitions, scholarly activities, and ongoing research projects at the Getty."
Marc Neveu's essay titled The Indole of Education: the Apologues of Carlo Lodoli is included in this publication and can be purchased from Amazon.
Polemical Drawings (2009)
"Polemical Drawings gives legitimacy to architect and professor John Lange’s quest in setting in place a vision for an architecture of the future; one that finds resonance in the 18th century visionary architects who believed that drawing and the act of drawing, was Architecture in its own right.
The experiences and experiments of Boullee, Ledoux, and Piranesi established Architecture as a three-dimensional manifestation of a social structure; one that was coined Architecture Parlante.
John Lange's work is firmly anchored in this tradition and while he has devoted his life as a teacher, an academician, theoretician, and educator, this book partakes in his search for an authentic plastic expression of ideas through structure and space. The work is explicitly recorded in the form of over-scaled drawings."
Professor John Lange's book is part of the Architectural Environmental Design Press and can be purchased from Lulu Marketplace for $35.90 (152 pages, full-cover, paperback).
Architecture: 2007-2008 Faculty Scholarship (2008)
This is second pamphlet showcasing the scholarship and accomplishments of our faculty. The papers are a reflection of the diversity of approaches and depth of research; one that continues to nurture many of our faculty's interest to expand critically the field of architecture. We hope that you will enjoy the papers and report of faculty achievements accomplished during the 2007-08 academic year .
The publication is part of the Architectural Environment Design Press and can be purchased from Lulu Marketplace for $35.00 (146 pages, full-color, paperback) or downloaded in PDF format for $0.69.
For a complete list of all faculty scholarship activities, go to Research web page.
GA Houses Project (2008)
"Today content takes precedence over form. The DRAPE Artist Residence and Gallery responds to this paradigm shift by offering a flexible space-dividing membrane as a kind of editable wiki that extends to the occupant a degree of authorial control by allowing for the nuanced reformulation of the interior space."
Professor and architect Doug Jackson's DRAPE Artist Residence and Gallery is featured in GA Houses Project 2008, issue 103. This book can be purchased from Amazon.
San Luis Obispo Architecture:
A Brief Architectural History of San Luis Obispo County (2008)
"This book should give us all a much better sense of how our built environment connects us to both the natural environment and the cycles of human culture."
Professor emeritus and architect Kenneth Haggard's publication (with the assistance from Erin Scholl - B.Arch 2005 Cal Poly, SLO) may be purchased from Amazon.
The Green Braid:
Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy, and Equity (2007)
"Providing a primer on sustainability, The Green Braid places sustainability at the center of excellent architectural design. No other volume addresses sustainability within the context of architectural history, theory, pedagogy, and design, making this book an ideal source for architects in framing their practices, and therefore their architectural production, in a sustainable manner."
Professor and architect Jonathan Reich's essay titled Poetic Engineering and Invention: Arthur Troutner, Architect, and the Development of Engineered Lumber is included in this publication and can be purchased from Amazon.
Architecture: 2006-2007 Faculty Scholarship (2007)
This is the first of an ongoing series of publications intended to make visible the scholarship and accomplishments of our faculty. The academic environment is one where the boundaries of teaching and research are being successfully broadened, blurred and redefined beyond the conventional markers. We hope that you will enjoy the papers and report of faculty achievements accomplished during the 2006-07 academic year .
The publication is part of the Architectural Environment Design Press and can be purchased from Lulu Marketplace for $31.00 (126 pages, full-color, paperback) or downloaded in PDF format for $0.69.
For a complete list of all faculty scholarship activities, go to Research web page.
The Emergence of Building Science;
Historical Roots, Concepts, and Application (2007)
"The design of buildings and the broader field of environmental design are often described as an art and a science. Design is an art because of both the complexity of the problem solving and decision making process involved and the innate desire of the designer to produce a solution that is unique and at the same time pleasing to our human senses. In the first instance, the complexity of the design process itself is not necessarily due to the complexity of any single issue or facts that must be considered, although some of these certainly demand in-depth subject matter knowledge, but rather the many interrelationships among those factors."
Written by Professor emeritus and architect Jens Pohl.
Becoming an Architect (2006)
"Here is the completely up-to-date guide to today's careers in architecture—a clear and concise survey of the architecture field and advice for navigating a successful career. Filled with interviews and advice from leading architects, it covers everything from educational requirements and design specialties to registration requirements and the many directions in which a career in architecture can go."
Professor and architect Thomas Fowler's essay titled A Teacher's View is included in this publication and can be purchase on Amazon.
Fractal Architecture (2006)
"This book should be required reading for all passengers and crew for Spaceship Earth. It brings together much of the pioneering work of San Luis Sustainability Group, one of the preeminent practitioners of green architecture in the United States."
Professors emeriti and architects Kenneth Haggard and Polly Cooper's publication may be purchased from Amazon.
La Conchita Mon Amour (2006)
"La Conchita is a tiny beach community in north Ventura County, about one hundred miles north of Los Angeles. On January 10, 2005, a devastating mudslide took ten lives and left a huge mass of fallen mountain in the middle of the town and buried 10 men, women, and children."
La Conchita Mon Amour (2005-2006) is a site study by artist Christina McPhee and resulted in an exhibition of her art work at Sara Tecchia Roma New York, NYC in October 2006. Book was designed by Professor emeritus Terry Hargrave and can be purchased from Lulu Marketplace for $34.96 (100 pages, full-cover, paperback) or downloaded in PDF for $7.50.
Shrinking Cities: Volume 1 (2006)
"From Great Britain, Belgium, Finland and Italy to Russia, Kazakhstan and China, cities are shrinking--while urban-planning debates focus on the growth of the megalopolis, many of the world's existing population centers are watching their citizens walk away. Between globalization, deindustrialization, suburbanization, the transition to post-Socialism, high unemployment and, in some cases, wider national population losses, the phenomenon is growing. Shrinking Cities Volume 1: International Research, a publication of the Germany-based Shrinking Cities initiative, examines this phenomenon's causes and dynamics on an international level for the first time, exploring examples including Manchester and Liverpool, Detroit, Russia's Ivanovo, and Germany's Halle and Leipzig."
Professor and architect Robert Arens' essay titled The Heidelberg Project is featured in this publication and can be purchased from Amazon.
Curriculum for Aerospace Architecture:
With Emphasis on Lunar Base and Habitat Studies (2004)
"The curriculum for aerospace architecture is for a year-long study for fifh0year undergraduate students of architecture ore masters of architecture. It is proposed as one option for students to choose as their capstone experience. Aerospace architecture is a topic within which graduating students can develop and enhance their architectural skills. The field has highly technical aspects that will develop in students a capacity to design in a highly regulated environment. Students will practice the rigors necessary to apply codes, specifications, and technological innovations to terrestrial architecture as well as to aerospace environments. The precision required in the discipline of designing for space will strengthen the abilities of architecture students to design to the less stringent requirements of "ordinary" architecture."
Professor emeritus and architect Donna Duerk's Student's Companion can be purchased by emailing Donna Duerk.
The Universal Traveler: a Soft-Systems guide to: creativity, problem-solving and the process of reaching goals (reprinted in 2003)
"The goal of THE UNIVERSAL TRAVELER is to provide a simplifying format for problem-solving. We believe that all problems, no matter what size they may be, can benefit form the same logical and orderly procedures now employed in the highly specialized, computer assisted statistical, disciplines which address themselves to complex world problems. In principle our everyday and occasionally more important personal problems are no different than those larger issues. The process remains constant. It is only the methods which need to be changed, and then, often in appearance alone."
Professor emeriti and architects Don Koberg and Jim Bagnall's publication may be purchased on Amazon.
Designing the Centennial:
A History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia (2002)
"Designing the Centennial is an important first look at the design process and the nature of the display. Bruno Giberti uses official reports of the U.S. Centennial Commission and photographs of the Centennial Photographic Company, as well as the Ephemera of the exhibition and literary accounts in books, magazines, and newspapers to illuminate how the 1876 fair revealed changes to come—in future world's fairs, museums, department stores and in the nature of display itself."
Professor and architect Bruno Giberti's publication may be purchased from Amazon.
Stalking Detroit (2001)
"Detroit is the most thoroughly modern city in the world. Built to service the single-minded imperatives of automobile production, Detroit has come to represent the temporary nature of urbanism in the context of increasingly mobile capital. In the first half of the 20th century Detroit served as an international model for industrial urbanism arranged to maximize profits from the investment of speculative capital. In the second half of the century, the city lost much of its population in the face of increasingly global capital markets and decentralized production methods. Stalking Detroit is an anthology of essays, photographs, and projects, each offering an intellectual purchase from the urban millieu of Detroit at the end of the century, and attempting to document the residue of its material history. Edited by Georgia Daskalakis, Charles Waldheim, and Jason Young."
Professor and architect Robert Arens' essay titled The Heidelberg Project is featured in this publication and can be purchased from Amazon.
Glossary of Architectural Terms, Concepts and Expressions (2000)
"The language of architecture consists of materials, elements and products associated with building construction. Therefore by definition, architecture is a non-verbal language. Mastering this non-verbal language, learning its background, and establishing the context for its practice is a common task for learning and discipline. This is essential if one is to have a comprehensive and effective grasp of a discipline's associated activities, processes and its products."
Authored by Professor emeritus and architect Joseph Amanzio.
Architect's Professional Practice Manual (2000)
"The time-saving professional secrets, the management skills, and the marketing savvy that have made Jim Franklin's American Institute of Architects seminars famous—this book gives you them all, and more. In an appealingly easy-access, illustrated format, Jim Franklin lays out tools to make your working easier, more fun, and more profitable."
Professor emeritus and architect James Franklin's book can be purchase through Amazon.
Roesling Nakamura Architects: Objectives in Practice (1998)
"It is difficult to become detached from one's own work and write about it in a way that is not trivial. The intent of this preface is to outline some of the philosophical ideas that are of interest to us as a firm and to convey the joy and challenge of our day-to-day work."
Preface by Ralph Roesling, Kotaro Nakamura, Mun Ying Kung and Chikako Terada Hart. Introduction by Nimoru Takeyama and text by Bob Condia (B.Arch 80, Cal Poly).
This book is available for purchase at Amazon.
The Executive Architect: Transforming Designers into Leaders (1996)
"This book helps bridge the gap between the artist and the executive. It demonstrates that unlimited opportunities await the architect who looks beyond the everyday aspects of professional practice and learns as much as possible about the client's world.
The authors promote the premise that competitive success in architecture today requires new strategic thinking, marketing sophistication, innovative professional services and effective client relations skills. Features superlative advice and project examples from more than a dozen outstanding design professionals including Arthur Gensler (creator of the world's foremost practice in interior architecture), Charles Luckman (architect of major building such as the NASA complex) and Judy Rowe (responsible for architectural quality control for the Kaiser Foundation hospital facilities). Chapters cover key concepts, practices and techniques. Case studies, based on the Harvard Business School model, present the reader with successful decision-making examples."
Co-authored with architect John E. Harrigan, Dean Emeritus Paul Neel's book can be purchased through Amazon.
Architectural Programming: Information Management for Design (1993)
"Although there are few other books about pre-design programming, none of them is as open, accessible, and malleable as this one. Even so, this one is rigorous and thoughtful, a true "how-to" book, useful for doing your first pre-design program and many after that. What makes it particularly useful is the approach of issue-based programming where issues are concerns that demand a design response and thus become the units for analysis in the programming process."
Professor and architect Donna Duerk's book can be purchase through Amazon.
Natural Light and the Italian Piazza (1992)
"Lakeman's genuine passion for her subject is apparent in every aspect of this work. That excitement and fascination radiates from the pages in a form that everyone should make an effort to be exposed to... the photographs offer a stunning perspective and profound insight that is accessible to all... a philosophical and technical treatise on Light, Architecture, and Urban Planning."
Professor emeritus and architect Sandra Lakeman's book can be purchased through Amazon.