I am admitted into WUSTL M.Arch 3 program. They sent me a long list of books required for the Arch 339 course. They recommend us to get the books before going for orientation on Aug 16. However, it is a very very long list of books, and is wondering whether it is absolutely crucial to get all the books before the term begins. Are there any books that are not so necessary/or any that are readily available in the school's library. How about the school's used book store, are these books usually available there? Any suggestions on what I should do is welcomed!
Also, please let me know if anyone has used books which I could buy for a lower price.
The list is as follow:
SiegfriedGiedion / Space, Time and Architecture: the Growth of a New Tradition
(FifthRevised and Enlarged Edition, 2003)
KennethFrampton / Modern Architecture: a Critical History, 1992.
WilliamCurtis / Modern Architecture since 1900
Hanno-WalterKruft / A History of Architectural Theory
RudolfWittkower / Architecture Principles in the Age of Humanism; 2nded.
UlrichConrads / Programs and Manifestos on 20th Century Architecture,1975.
ReynerBanham / Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
JoanOckman / Architecture Culture 1943-1968: A Documentary Anthology, 1993
K.Michael Hays / Architecture Theory Since1968, 2000
Plato/ The Republic
Vitruvius/ The Ten Books on Architecture
Alberti/TheTen Books on Architecture
Palladio/ Four Books on Architecture
Marc-AntoineLaugier / Essay on Architecture
EdmundBurke / A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublimeand Beautiful
Thoreau,Henry David / Walden
Semper,Gottfried / The Four Elements ofArchitecture
Ruskin,John / The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Eugene-EmmanuelViollet-Le-Duc (Kenneth D. Whitehead, editor) TheFoundations Of Architecture: Selections from the Dictionaire Raisonné
LeCorbusier / Towards a (New) Architecture
Gropius,Walter / The New Architecture and theBauhaus
AldoRossi / The Architecture of the City
RobertVenturi / Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
ColinRowe / Collage City, 1984
Manfredo Tafuri/Barbara Luigia LaPenta / Architectureand Utopia: Design And Capitalist Development
GastonBachelard / The Poetics of Space, 1994.
HenriLefebvre / The Production of Space, 1991.
RemKoolhaas / Delirious New York: ARetroactive Manifesto for Manhattan,1997.
JuhaniPallasmaa / The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses, 2005.