Where do we start?
Going by the Seminar Brief...
1. Nikolaus Pevsner - 'A History of Building Types'
2. Jeffrey Kipnis - Quite a few... Wikipedia page, for starters.
And I have a dozen or so books on my hard disk that might be able to help, but I have to go through them first. It'll be good if we can gradually add on to our reading list in comments.
Also, this is an interesting place to check out.
12 leading architects were asked to craft a floor each at the Hotel Puerta America, Madrid. These included the likes of Jean Nouvel (who did the facade as well), Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster and Arata Isozaki. The hotel has garnered some horrible reviews as far as service is concerned, but it still manages to rake in cash because of its edginess. It doesn't directly relate to 'facades', but it does relate to form and how so many different interpretations of it lie in such close contact to each other: Zaha Hadid's 'Flintstones meets Jetsons' is 9 floors away from Isozaki's 'Neo-Noir Ryokan'; even the garage has a big-ticket designer: Teresa Sapey. And all of it fits in that building.
The hotel charges an extra fee for floor changes.
My personal favourite is Isozaki's floor...
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