Readings

Shared bibliography for the Venice Program · Fall 2026 · 131 sources

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Required Readings

Module 01 9
  • ASHRAE Reference Documents. (n.d.).
  • Lopes, C. L., Mendes, R., Caçador, I., & Dias, J. M. (2021). Assessing salt marsh loss and degradation by combining long‐term LANDSAT imagery and numerical modelling. Land Degradation & Development, 32, 4534–4545. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4050
  • Marzo, M. (n.d.). Fortified Places in the Venetian Lagoon.
  • McDonough, W., & Braungart, M. (2002). Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things.
  • Polidoro, G. L. (1954). Gente della laguna [Documentary short]. Astra Cinematografica.
  • Psarra, S. (2017). City-Craft and Statecraft: Architecture and the City in Humanist Urban Culture – the Case of Venice. Proceedings of the 11th Space Syntax Symposium.
  • Putalik, E., & Davis, B. (2022). Bay Migrations. Places Journal. https://placesjournal.org/article/climate-and-migration-in-the-chesapeake-marsh/
  • Scarton, F., Day, J. W., Rismondo, A., Cecconi, G., & Are, D. (2000). Effects of an intertidal sediment fence on sediment elevation and vegetation distribution in a Venice (Italy) lagoon salt marsh. Ecological Engineering, 16, 223–233. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0925-8574(00)00045-8
  • Stocco, A., Basconi, L., Rova, S., & Pranovi, F. (2023). Like Little Lagoons: The Contribution of Valli da Pesca to the Ecosystem Services Supply of the Venice Lagoon. Estuaries and Coasts. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-023-01168-z

Library

films_videos 14
  • Gray, F. G. (2003). The Italian Job [Video recording].
  • Grydehøj, A., & Casagrande, M. (2019). Islands of connectivity: Archipelago relationality and transport infrastructure in Venice Lagoon. Area, 52, 56–64. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12529
  • Harvey, D. (n.d.). Space as a Keyword.
  • Hemingway, E. (1950). Across the River and Into the Trees.
  • Hindle, R. L. (2018). Inventing Venice: An Urban and Environmental Innovation Model from the Lagoon City. Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society, 100(3), 530–546. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/75635711
  • James, H. (1902). The Wings of the Dove.
  • Knapton, M., Law, J. E., & Smith, A. A. (Eds.). (2014). Venice and the Veneto during the Renaissance: The Legacy of Benjamin Kohl. Firenze University Press.
  • Lam, W. M. C. (1977). Perception and Lighting as Formgivers for Architecture. McGraw-Hill.
  • Landais, J. (2018). The Aspern Papers [Video recording].
  • Lean, D. (1955). Summertime [Video recording].
  • Lefebvre, H. (2003). From the City to Urban Society. In The Urban Revolution.
  • Leon, D. (1992). Death at La Fenice.
  • Leon, D. (1996). Aqua Alta.
  • Mann, T. (1912). Death in Venice.
Mapping 3
  • Bacon, E. N. (1974). Design of Cities. Viking Press.
  • Merleau-Ponty, M. (1962). Phenomenology of Perception.
  • Paez, R. (n.d.). Operative Mapping.
On Drawing and Diagramming 4
  • Calvino, I. (2004). On “Invisible Cities.” Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, No. 40, 177–182.
  • Cosgrove, D. (1993). The Palladian Landscape: Geographical Change and Its Cultural Representations in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Leicester University Press.
  • Merleau-Ponty, M. (1962). Phenomenology of Perception.
  • Schrader, P. (1990). The Comfort of Strangers [Video recording].
On Infrastructure 6
  • Berman, I. (n.d.). Feminism: A Short History.
  • Dursteler, E. R. (2013). A Brief Survey of Histories of Venice. In A Companion to Venetian History, 1400–1797 (Vol. 4). Brill.
  • Jacobs, J. (1961). The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Random House.
  • Rowe, C. (1976). The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays.
  • Schumacher, P. (2009). Parametricism: A New Global Style for Architecture and Urban Design. Architectural Design.
  • Vinci, G., Fontana, A., Musina, G., Mancini, L., Lubritto, C., Liccioli, L., & Bernardini, F. (2023). Beached swords from Marano Lagoon (northern Adriatic) reveal ancient land–sea connections and recent coastal evolution. Archaeometry, 65(2), 299–318. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12833
On Space 2
  • Agrest, D. I. (1988). Architecture from without: Body, Logic, and Sex. Assemblage, 7, 28–41.
  • Savoy, D. (n.d.). Palladio and the Water-oriented Scenography of Venice.
On Urbanization 5
  • Benjamin, W. (1969). The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. In Illuminations.
  • Corner, J. (Ed.). (1999a). Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture. Princeton Architectural Press.
  • D’Alpaos, A., Da Lio, C., & Marani, M. (2011). Biogeomorphology of tidal landforms: physical and biological processes shaping the tidal landscape. Ecohydrology, 5, 550–562. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.279
  • Judde de Larivière, C., & Salzberg, R. M. (2013). The People Are the City: The Idea of the Popolo and the Condition of the Popolani in Renaissance Venice. Renaissance Quarterly, 66, 534–562.
  • Yeang, K. (2006). A Manual for Ecodesign. Wiley-Academy.
Research Papers 17
  • Natural Ventilation Systems. (n.d.).
  • Berman, M. (n.d.). All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity.
  • Chouairi, A. (2021b). The Operating Venetian Lagoon: The Agency of Barene [Master’s thesis (Archiprix 2021 selection), Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)]. https://www.archined.nl/2022/03/the-operating-venetian-lagoon-the-agency-of-barene-archiprix-2021/
  • Chouairi, A. (2025a). Fanzine (companion to ’Unruly Marshes’).
  • Corner, J. (1999b). The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention. In Mappings (pp. 231–252).
  • D’Alpaos, L. (2010a). Fatti e misfatti di idraulica lagunare. La laguna di Venezia dalla diversione dei fiumi alle nuove opere delle bocche di porto. Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti.
  • Deutsche, R. (n.d.). Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics.
  • Frampton, K. (1983). Prospects for a Critical Regionalism. Perspecta, 20, 147–162.
  • Galli, J. (n.d.). What to See? Exploring Venice Contemporary Itineraries.
  • Gandy, M. (2005). Cyborg Urbanization: Complexity and Monstrosity in the Contemporary City. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 29.1, 26–49.
  • Harvey, D. (2008). The Right to the City. New Left Review, 53, 23–40.
  • Hill, K. (n.d.). Shifting Sites.
  • Holl, S. (1988). Within the City: Phenomena of Relations. Design Quarterly, 139, 1–30.
  • Howard, D. (2013). Venetian Architecture. In A Companion to Venetian History, 1400–1797 (pp. 743–778). Brill.
  • Kellert, S., & Calabrese, E. (2015). The Practice of Biophilic Design.
  • Sherman, W. (2021). Learning Design through Drawing: Inspiring Discovery. Palladiana.
  • Sherman, W., & Hackney, L. (2010). Energetic Organizations: Frameworks for Urban Flow and Form. LUNCH, 5.
Theory 49
  • Changing Views: Photography and Environmental Action. (n.d.).
  • The Soundscape of Early Modern Venice. (2017). Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 24–27 May 2017.
  • Allen, S. (1999). Infrastructural Urbanism.
  • Beltramini, G. (n.d.). The Private Palladio.
  • Berrizbeitia, A. (2007). Re-Placing Process. In J. Czerniak & G. Hargreaves (Eds.), Large Parks (pp. 174–197). Princeton Architectural Press.
  • Brenner, N., & Katsikis, N. (2020). Operational Landscapes: Hinterlands of the Capitalocene. Architectural Design, 90, 22–31.
  • Brenner, N., & Schmid, C. (2011). Planetary Urbanization. In Urban Constellations.
  • Brown, P. F. (2007). Born Free and Christian: the Origins of Venice According to the Chronicle Tradition.
  • Byrd, W. T., & Nelson, S. S. (1985). On Drawing. Landscape Architecture, 75(4), 44–54.
  • Calvino, I. (2004). On “Invisible Cities.” Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, No. 40, 177–182.
  • Calvino, I. (n.d.). Invisible Cities.
  • Chouairi, A. (2021a). Historical Pictures and Images.
  • Chouairi, A. (2025b). Unruly Marshes: Unveiling Paradoxes of Turbid Restoration Projects in Wet Environments. The Case of the Venice Lagoon [PhD dissertation (extended abstract)]. Università Iuav di Venezia.
  • D’Alpaos, L. (2010b). L’evoluzione morfologica della laguna di Venezia attraverso la lettura di alcune mappe storiche e delle sue carte idrografiche.
  • de Vivo, F. (2016). Walking in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Mobilizing the Early Modern City. I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, 19(1), 115–141.
  • Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1987). Rhizome. In A Thousand Plateaus.
  • Emmer, L., & Gras, E. (1948). Isole nella laguna [Documentary short]. Salvo D’Angelo (producer).
  • Fletcher, C., & Da Mosto, J. (2004). The Science of Saving Venice. Umberto Allemandi & Co.
  • Foscari, G. (2014). Elements of Venice.
  • Gifford, R. (2014). Environmental Psychology Matters. Annual Review of Psychology, 65, 541–579.
  • Kaika, M., & Swyngedouw, E. (2000). Fetishizing the Modern City: The Phantasmagoria of Urban Technological Networks. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 24, 120–138.
  • Koolhaas, R. (1978). Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan.
  • Larkin, B. (2013). The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure. Annual Review of Anthropology, 42, 327–343.
  • Lefebvre, H. (1991). The Production of Space.
  • Malinin, L. H. (2016). Creative Practices Embodied, Embedded, and Enacted in Architectural Settings: Toward an Ecological Model of Creativity. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1978.
  • Mattern, S. (2013). Infrastructural Tourism. Places Journal.
  • Mayne, T. (2005). Change or perish.
  • Meadows, D. H. (2008). Thinking in Systems: A Primer.
  • Merleau-Ponty, M. (1962). Phenomenology of Perception.
  • Meyer, E. K. (2008). Sustaining beauty. The performance of appearance. Journal of Landscape Architecture, 3, 6–23.
  • Moe, K. (2010). Thermally Active Surfaces in Architecture.
  • Psarra, S. (n.d.). The Role of Spatial Networks in the Historic Urban Landscape: Learning from Venice in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
  • Riegl, A. (1982). The Modern Cult of Monuments: Its Character and Its Origin. Oppositions, 25, 21–51.
  • Robinson, J. (2002). Global and World Cities: A View from off the Map. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
  • Rosen, M. (n.d.). The Republic at Work: S. Marco’s Reliefs of the Venetian Trades.
  • Rossi, A. (1982). The Architecture of the City.
  • Samuels, S. N. (n.d.). Venice, The Utopian Dystopia or The Dystopian Utopia? What has become of La Serenissima? Humanities, 3.
  • Shakespeare, W. (1596). The Merchant of Venice.
  • Shakespeare, W. (1604). Othello, the Moor of Venice.
  • Softley, I. (1997). The Wings of the Dove [Video recording].
  • Soldini, S. (2001). Bread and Tulips [Video recording].
  • Swyngedouw, E. (1996). The City As a Hybrid: On Nature, Society and Cyborg Urbanization. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 7, 65–80.
  • Venturi, R. (1965). Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture: Selections from a Forthcoming Book. Perspecta, 9/10, 17–56.
  • Venturi, R., Scott Brown, D., & Izenour, S. (1977). Learning from Las Vegas. MIT Press.
  • Vianello, A. (2013). Rivers as Way of Life: The Case of the Veneto. SKYLLIS, 13(2).
  • Visconti, L. (1971). Death in Venice [Video recording].
  • Wirth, L. (1938). Urbanism as a Way of Life. American Journal of Sociology, 44, 1–24.
  • Zaera-Polo, A. (2009). Patterns, Fabrics, Prototypes, Tessellations. Architectural Design.
  • Zancanaro, E., Morari, F., Piccoli, I., Carrera, A., Zoccarato, C., & Teatini, P. (2024). A Novel Technique to Mitigate Saltwater Intrusion: Freshwater Recharge via Drainpipe in Permeable Paleochannels. Hydrological Processes, 38(10). https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15299
Venice Architecture History 3
  • Bowd, S. (n.d.). Civic Piety and Patriotism: Patrician Humanists and Jews in Venice and Its Empire.
  • Ortiz, P. (2022). Across the River and Into the Trees [Video recording].
  • Ristinen, R. A., & Kraushaar, J. J. (2006). Energy Fundamentals, Energy Use in an Industrial Society. In Energy and the Environment. Wiley.
Venice Literature 15
  • Addington, M. (n.d.). Contingent Behaviours.
  • Conrads, U. (1971). Programs and manifestoes on 20th-century architecture.
  • Ghinassi, M., Nemec, W., Aldinucci, M., Nehyba, S., Özaksoy, V., & Fidolini, F. (2014). Plan‐form evolution of ancient meandering rivers reconstructed from longitudinal outcrop sections. Sedimentology, 61, 952–977. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12081
  • McEwan, I. (1981). The Comfort of Strangers.
  • Mel, R., Carniello, L., & D’Alpaos, L. (2019). Addressing the effect of the Mo.S.E. barriers closure on wind setup within the Venice lagoon. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 225, 106249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2019.106249
  • Newman, P., & Jennings, I. (2008). Modeling Cities on Ecosystems. In Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices.
  • Otway, T. (1874). Venice Preserved.
  • Pallasmaa, J. (2016). The Sixth Sense: The Meaning of Atmosphere and Mood. Architectural Design, 126.
  • Parker, O. (1995). Othello [Video recording].
  • Pasinetti, P. M. (1970). From the Academy Bridge.
  • Pendergrast, K. (2020). Home Body. Real Life.
  • Radford, M. (2004). The Merchant of Venice [Video recording].
  • Roeg, N. (1973). Don’t Look Now [Video recording].
  • Ruskin, J. (1880). The Stones of Venice.
  • Sambo, B., Sano, M., Sperotto, A., Zanetti, M., Torresan, S., Lambert, J. H., Linkov, I., & Critto, A. (2024). Sensitivity analysis for a participatory approach to enhance the climate resilience of Venice, Italy. Risk Analysis, 44(7), 1573–1585. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.14258
Venice_Veneto Landscape 3
  • Berman, M. (n.d.). All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity.
  • Cantrell, B., & Dawkins, M. (2022). Wild Disequilibria. Prospectives (B-Pro, Bartlett School of Architecture). https://journal.b-pro.org/
  • Irigaray, L., & Guynn, N. (1995). The Question of the Other. Yale French Studies, 87, 7–19.

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