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• LITERATURE SEARCHING

• NICOLAI STEINØ
• Assistant professor, PhD
• Aalborg University
• School of Architecture Design

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INTRODUCTION

• The process of literature searching
• What do I want to know ?
• How do I find relevant references ?
• How do I retrieve the actual resources ?
• Demo
• Assignment

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THE PROCESS OF LITERATURE SEARCHING

• Isolate the subject
• Perform a literature rearch
• Build a weighed literature list
• Retrieve the literature

• A 4-step process

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WHAT DO I WANT TO KNOW ?

• Works
• Projects
• Persons
• Subjects / Concepts

• Different kinds of information

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WHAT DO I WANT TO KNOW ?

• Where is it?
• When was it built?
• Who designed it?
• Example Letchworth Garden City
• Great Britain
• Early 1900s
• Unwin Parker

• Works

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WHAT DO I WANT TO KNOW ?

• Who designed it?
• What type of project is it?
• When was it made?
• Where has it been published?
• Example Parc de la Villette
• Bernard Tschumi
• Deconstructionist park design
• Late 1980s
• Architectural Design

• Projects

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WHAT DO I WANT TO KNOW ?

• Who is associated with the subject / concept?
• When was the subject / concept ceveloped?
• Where is the subject / concept applied /
  represented?
• Example New Urbanism
• Peter Calthorpe, Duany Plater-Zyberk
• 1990s
• Seaside, Florida Celebration, Florida

• Subjects / Concepts

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WHAT DO I WANT TO KNOW ?

• What are the works of the person?
• Is it a contemporary or historic person?
• What subjects / concepts is the person associated
  with?
• Example Aldo Rossi
• Cemetary, Modena Architecture of the City
• 1931-1997
• Architectural theory, neo-rationalism

• Persons

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HOW DO I FIND RELEVANT REFERENCES ?

• Books
• Journal articles
• Images
• Documents

• Types of resources

ressources
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HOW DO I FIND RELEVANT REFERENCES ?

• Library indexes
• Article indexes
• Literature lists
• (Search engines)

• Types of source retrieval systems

ressources
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HOW DO I FIND RELEVANT REFERENCES ?

• Annotated book titles
• Annotated journal titles
• Examples
• Danish public libraries www.bibliotek.dk
• Statsbiblioteket www.statsbiblioteket.dk
• Arkitektskolens Bibliotek www.a-aarhus.dk
• Aalborg Universitetsbibliotek www.aub.aau.dk
• Columbia University Libraries clio.cul.columbia.ed
  u

• Library indexes

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HOW DO I FIND RELEVANT REFERENCES ?

• Annotated article titles
• Examples
• Avery Index http//biblioline.nisc.com/scripts/log
  in.dll?BiblioLinedbnameQAVERY
• Artikel basen Artur www.bygnet.dk/bygnet/servlet/B
  ygNetServlet?action7011700id5
• (see also www.aob.aau.dk under Se databaser,
  emner)

• Article indexes

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HOW DO I FIND RELEVANT REFERENCES ?

• Collections of references to selected subjects
• Examples
• MIT OpenCourseWare ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Urban-Studie
  s-and-Planning/11-328JUrban-Design-Skills--Observi
  ng--Interpreting--and-Representing-the-CityFall200
  2/Readings/
• archINFORM text search www.archinform.net/search/i
  ndex.htm?IDz3panUghG6rM60Qd

• Literature lists

ressources
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HOW DO I RETRIEVE THE ACTUAL RESOURCES ?

• Physical books and journals
• E-books and e-journals
• Examples
• Aalborg Universitetsbibliotek
• Statsbiblioteket
• Danish public libraries
• Ebrary site.ebrary.com/lib/aalborguniv
• AUB Elektroniske tidsskrifter www.aub.aau.dk/port
  al/js_pane/forside/article/94

• Resource formats

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DEMO

• Rotterdam, Holland / the Netherlands
• West 8
• Adrian Geuze

• Schouwburgplein

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ASSIGNMENT

• Rietveld Schröderhuis, Utrecht
• Mecanoo Central Library, TU Delft
• Dudok Town hall, Hilversum
• MVRDV WoZoCo, Amsterdam
• Several architects Koop van Zuid

• Topics