There is a wealth of images of individual houses in the library.  Most of them are photographs, both in black and white and 
  in color.  Some of the images are also diagrammatic, such as plans, elevations, and sections, although they are not as
  numerous or universal as photographs.  Details, both in plan and section, are occasionally available in printed sources.  In
  most cases there will not be an entire book written on one building.  There are exceptions, however, such as Fallingwater,
  Villa Savoye, and the Farnsworth House, among several others.

  Steps to follow:

      Building name(s)—often names change over time, or, if the building is in a non-English-speaking country, references
may be in a language other than English, or in both.

      Date(s)—a general idea of when the building was conceived, designed, and constructed.

      Architects(s)—if known.

      Location (city and country; also state if in the United States)—often indexes are arranged by location.

  Keyword:  enter essential elements of building name, such as Red House, Fallingwater, or Robie House.

  Keyword:  enter name of architect (last name, first name), for example, Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig.  In order to locate a
  specific building you may need to examine a book about the range of work produced by an architect.  In that case, the
  index at the end of the book is essential for finding a specific building.

  Subject:  enter one of the following for a subject search

Architecture, Domestic – Designs and plans

Architecture, Domestic – History – 20^th century

Architecture, Domestic – Europe – Designs and plans

Architecture, Domestic – United States – Designs and plans

Architecture, Modern – 20^th century – Designs and plans

Buildings – Designs and plans

Dwellings – History – 20^th century

  Again, the index at the end of the book is essential for finding a specific building.  Read the introductory matter to the index
  for an idea of how information is arranged and what symbols mean.  Sometimes buildings are listed first by locality.  The
  description field of the catalog record will tell you whether there are illustrations (“ill.”) and whether they are in color.

  Remember that the library does not subscribe to every title indexed in the Avery Index; consult the periodicals list.

  Enter keyword(s):  a distinctive set of words to identify your topic, such as Winton Gehry, for the Winton Guest House in 
  Minnesota, designed by Frank Gehry.

  Note: to access Avery Index of campus, you must login through the link "connect from home" on the Library Homepage
  with your student ID and Password.

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  4.  A Select Bibliography of some helpful resources  in the Library

  American House Now: Contemporary Architectural Directions. Universe, 2002.  728.0973 D726 2002.  Bold examples
  illustrated in color, with plans and sections.

  American Masterworks: The Twentieth Century House.  Rizzoli, 1995. Reference 728.37 F813.  Excellent essays and color
  photographs documenting interiors.

  American Shelter: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home.  Overlook Press, 1996.  728.27 W1805.  Basic style
  guide, with isometric projections, plans, and elevations.

  Architecture in Detail.  Consult library catalog for call numbers.  This series consists of single-building studies, beautifully
  photographed and documented thoroughly with plans, sections, and elevations.  The library owns 46 titles from the series,
  most of the modern houses.

  A Comparative Analysis of 20th-Century Houses.   Rizzoli, 1989.  728 H254.  With isometric projections, the author examines 
  spatial relationships.

  The Details of Modern Architecture.  Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990.  2 vols.  724.5 F699.  Large-scale construction details
  of selected buildings.

  GA Houses.  Periodical.  The most recent experiments in residential design, expertly documented.

  The Great Buildings Collection: A Designer's Library of Architecture. Artifice, 1999. CD-ROM 720.9 M439. Views and plans of
  monuments from the history of architecture.

  Home: The Twentieth-Century House.  New York : Watson-Guptill, 1999.  728.0904 S943.  Contains plans and color
  photographs.

  House: American Houses for the New Century.  Universe, 2001.  728.0973 L269h.  Bold solutions for dramatic sites across the
  U.S.  Color photographs, plans, sections, elevations.

  Houses of the Century.  Corte Madera, Calif.: Gingko Press, 1998.  Reference 728.0904 Z12.  Excellent photographs in
  addition to clear plans and sections in the documentation section.

  Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century : Plans, Sections and Elevations.  New York: W. W. Norton,2004. Reference 724.6
  W536k.  Plans, sections and elevations of important buildings.

  Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century.  Rizzoli, 1985-. Reference 724.91 D926. Precise and clear plans for each entry.

  Masterpieces.  GA Houses Special, 1 + 2.  Reference 728.37 M423.  Excellent source of plans and sections for Design Process
  assignment.

  Modern Architecture, 1851-1945.  Rizzoli, 1983.  Reference 724 F813m.  Chronological arrangement of key examples, many
  with plans.

  Modern House.  London : Phaidon, 1995.  Reference 728.0904 W462.  Outstanding color photographs.

  The Modern House Designed by the World's Leading Architects.  Reference 728.37 M153. Hastings House, 1984.  Black &
  white photographs; good plans.

  Precedents in Architecture.  Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1996.  Reference 729 C594. Systematic analysis of formal paradigms.

  Scale Models: Houses of the 20th Century. Basel; Boston: Birkhäuser, 1999.  Reference 728.0228 R246.  Photographs of
  models, usually from a bird’s-eye view, along with plans.

  Smart House.  HBI, 2002.  728 T866s.  Excellent documentation of houses with high-level technology.

  Sustainable Architecture: Lowtech Houses. Carles Boto, 2002.  Alternative systems and materials within a modernist
  vocabulary.

  Twentieth-Century Houses, Europe.  Paris: Pierre Terrail Editions, 1998.  Reference 728.094 B684. Contains plans and color
  photographs.

  Twentieth-Century Residential Architecture.  Abbeville: 2002.  724.6 W536t.  History of one hundred years of modernist
  trends.

  Originally compiled by Paul Glassman, Updated by Eric Wolf, Last Updated: January 19, 2006