About:

A former professor at Harvard, Alexander Tzonis is also professor emeritus and the recent Chair of Architectural Theory and Design Methods at the University of Technology in Holland. He currently directs DKS Design Knowledge Systems in Delft. DKS is an advanced study program for research in design methodology and theory. Dr. Tzonis has written a number of major works on architecture, including books on LeCorbusier, Calatrava, Greek architecture, and modern and post-modern architecture. He has also organized several major international conferences on architecture.
 

Books:

The emergence of modern architecture :  a documentary history from 1000 to 1810.  Routledge, 2004.  Arch. Ref.  NA200 .E65 2004.

Tzonis, Alexander. Architecture in Europe since 1968 : memory and invention. Thames & Hudson, [1997], 1992.  NA958 .T96 1997.

_______________. Architecture in North America since 1960.  Boston : Little, Brown, 1995. NA712 .T97 1995.

_______________. Santiago Calatrava :  the complete works. Rizzoli, 2004.  On Reserve.

_______________. Santiago Calatrava :  the poetics of movement. St. Martin's Press, 1999.   NA1313 .C35 T9723 1999.

_______________. Movement, structure, and the work of Santiago Calatrava.  Birkhäuser, 1995. NA1313.C35 T97 1995.
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Books listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.
 

Articles (Selected from 1992- 2005):                  4.

"Técnica y movimiento: Santiago Calatrava, Medalla de Oro del AIA 2005."  Tzonis, Alexander., Arquitectura viva, no. 101, pp. 85-87, 2005.

"Concrete and clay: reworking nature in New York City [by] Matthew Gandy. The lower Manhattan plan: the 1966 vision for downtown New York [ed. by] Carol Willis. Beyond the edge: New York's new waterfront [by] Raymond W. Gastil [book review]. Shane, Graham., Journal of architectural education, vol.57, no.3, pp.77-79, Feb 2004.

"Beyond the edge: New York's new waterfrontl" [by] Raymond W. Gastil [book review]. Marshall, Richard., Journal of the American Planning Association, vol.69, no.3, pp.324-325, Summer 2003.

"Competition rules [World Trade Center site]." Gastil, Raymond W., [1958-], Architecture, vol.91, no.9, pp.39, Sept 2002.
        Note: Protest of the way the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation is going ahead with plans for the WTC site, including a design competition
                 for a memorial and a masterplan for Lower Manhattan. (source: Avery Index online).

"Planning New York New Visions [interview]." Hutton, Ernest.; Strauss, Mark, [1953-]; Gastil, Raymond W., [1958-]; Blumenfeld, Joan.; Taylor, Tess.; Bell, Rick., Oculus, vol.64, no.7-8, pp.21-22, Mar 2002
        Note: An interview with several members of this organization, a coalition of interested parties in the design, engineering and planning fields, formed
                 to develop recommendations for the rebuilding of the areas of lower Manhattan damaged or destroyed by the ... (source: Avery Index online)

"City design centers [New York, Seattle, Chattanooga]." Rahaim, John.; Gastil, Raymond W., [1958-]; Hundt, Karen., Places, vol.15, no.1, pp.77-80, Fall 2002.

"Rubble-rousing: what began as a subway expansion project became the world's largest archaeological excavation [Athens]."  Tzonis, Alexander.; Rodi, Alkistis., Architecture, vol. 89, no. 10, pp. 71-73, 141, Oct 2000.

"A millennial stocktaking." Gladwell, Malcolm, [1963-]; Nobel, Philip.; Tzonis, Alexander.; Vidler, Anthony, [1941-]; Iyer, Pico.; McKee, Bradford.; Chadderdon, Lisa.; Matthews, Anne.; Antonelli, Paola.; Bronson, Po, [1964-], Architecture, vol. 88, no. 12, pp. [63]-[109], Dec 1999.

"Pikionis and the transvisibility."  Tzonis, Alexander., Thresholds, vol. 19, pp. 15-21, 1999.

"Dialogue with Alexander Tzonis: artificial intelligence for intelligent architects." [interview]. Design book review: DBR, no. 27, pp. 7-11, Winter 1993.

"Aree portuali: nuovi approdi del progetto = Waterfronts: a new urban frontier." Greenberg, Ken; Martínez, Emilio; Tzonis, Alexander; Gregotti, Vittorio, [1927-];
Busquets, Joan; Hall, Peter Geoffrey, [1932-], Casabella, vol. 56, no. 589, pp. 30-45,  69-70, Apr 1992.
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Articles listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.
 

Web Sites:

DKS Design Knowledge Systems. www.bk.tudelft.nl/dks/tzonis/index.html
 

Judy Connorton
January 2006