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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

ressources
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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

ressources
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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
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