Reading

Project 4 Texts

Nine Problems in the Form of a Pavilion, Edited by Alan Dempsey and Yusuke Obuchi, AA Agendas No. 8, 2010, Excerpts
This publication from the Architectural Association uses the DRL-pavilion, designed and constructed for the 10-year anniversary of Design Research Laboratory (DRL) Master’s program at the AA. It poses nine different problems, or relevant issues, that could be part of any design-build endeavor employing digital design approaches. We find the text interesting not in its presentation of this particular pavilion, but rather as an account from a team that have gone through the complete process of conceptualizing, designing and building of a structure not unlike the one we will do this spring.


For students planning to do the Design Project:
The Function of the Oblique – the architecture of Claude Parent and Paul Virilio 1962 – 1962, AA Documents 3, Excerpts
The function of the oblique was introduced by Paul Virilio and Claude Parent as part of their practice Architecture Principe in the 1960s. It can be regarded as a first formation of ideas that have influenced generations of architects, but it is a source that is rarely referenced. At the core, it is based on the idea that the inclined plane – the ramp, or sloping floor, has a particular effect on people. We will ask all Design Project students to work based on this notion, and later also relate it to projection – as a central theme for cinematic technology as well as experience.

We will soon get back on the schedule for the coming Thursday, but please be ready for presenting the texts at some point in the afternoon. The texts are avaiable on our server at this location.

General reading list

(See also previous reading lists in the studio Legacy section)

Abruzzo, Emily, et.al. (ed.), 306090 Books, Volume 11: Models, 306090 Inc, New York, 2007, selected texts

Aish, Robert, “From Intuition to Precision”, AA Files 52, AA Publications, 2005, p.62-63

Aish, Robert,” Designing the Learning Curve”, forthcoming Arkus publication

Allen, Stan et al., (Respondents), “Stocktaking, Nine Questions About the Present and Future of Design”, Harvard Design Magazine, Spring/Summer 2004, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2004, p.5

Aranda, Benjamin and Lasch, Christopher, Tooling, Princeton Architectural Press, 2006

Architectural Design, Versioning, vol. 72, issue 5, (September/October 2002), Wiley, 2002, selected articles

Architectural Design, Closing the Gap: Information Models in Contemporary Design Practice, vol. 79 Issue 2, (March/April 2009), Wiley, 2007, selected articles

Arroyo, Peres, et al., Emerging Technologies and Housing Prototypes, Black Dog Publishing 2007, ISBN-10: 190477265X, ISBN-13: 978-1904772651

Banham, Reyner, The Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment, University of Chicago Press; 2Rev Ed edition, 1984

van Berkel, Ben and Bos, Caroline, UN Studio: Design Models – Architecture, Urbanism, Infrastructure, Rizzoli, 2006, selected texts

Burke, Anthony and Tierney, Therese (ed.), Network Practices: New Strategies in Architecture and Design, Princeton Architectural Press, 2007, selected articles

DeLanda, Manuel, “Material Elegance”, Architectural Design: Elegance, vol. 77, issue 1, (January/February 2007), Wiley, 2007, p.18

Dritsas, Stylianos, Design Operators, master thesis, MIT, 2004

Eastman, Chuck, et al., BIM Handbook: a guide to building information modelling for owners, managers, designers, engineers, and contractors, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2008

Fernandez, John, Material Architecture: Emergent Materials and Issues for Innovative and Responsible Buildings: Emergent Materials for Innovative Buildings and Ecological Construction, Architectural Press; New title edition, 2005

Guidot, Raymond, Industrial Design Techniques and Materials, Editions Flammarion, 2006, ISBN-10: 2080305190, ISBN-13: 978-2080305190

Hardy, Steve (ed.), Environmental Tectonics: Forming Climatic Change, AA Agendas No. 6, AA Publications, 2008

Iwamoto, Lisa, Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009

Kara, Hanif (ed.), Design Engineering AKT, Actar, 2009

Kennon, Kevin, “Does Collaboration Work?”, Architectural design: Collective Intelligence in Design, vol. 76 (2006):5, Wiley, 2006, p.50

Kolarevic, Branco and Klinger, Kevin (ed.), Manufacturing Material Effects, Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture, Routledge, 2008

Malkawi, Ali M.  and Augenbroe, Godfried (ed.), Advanced Building Simulation, Spon Press 2003

Moussavi, Farshid and Kubo, Michael (ed.), The Function of Ornament, Actar, 2006

Moussavi, Farshid (ed.), The Function of Form, Actar, 2009

Pottman, Helmut, et al., Architectural Geometry, Bentley Institute Press, 2007

Praxis, New Technologies://New Architectures, issue 6, 2004, selected texts

Reiser, Jesse, Atlas of Novel Tectonics / Reiser+Umemoto, Princeton Architectural Press, 2006, selected texts

Speaks, Michael, “Design Intelligence”, interviews, A+U (2002:12-2003:12), selected texts

Schumacher, Patrik, “Arguing for Elegance”, Architectural Design: Elegance, vol. 77, issue 1, (January/February 2007), Wiley, 2007, p.28

Thompson, Rob, Manufacturing Processes For Design Professionals, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2007

Zaera-Polo, Alejandro, “The Politics of the Envelope”, Log Journal XX (2 texts)

Zaera-Polo, Alejandro, “The Hokusai Wave”, Quaderns April 2005, p.78

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