Readings
Reference materials connect the work of the studio to a broader disciplinary context and support alternate modes of reflection. During Part 1: Experiments and Imagination, readings and lectures are intended to deepen the links between two primary construction techniques: Modeling and Imaging. The links between these two forms of iterative making/thinking are used to develop design processes that focus on material, form, space and the consequences interferences (context, environment, people, time...) generate.
Though not a reading-intensive studio, this ever-evolving, and not all-inclusive list of reference grounds the studio work in both current and historical understandings. Readings may be curated and assigned throughout the semester to deepen and link the work to both philosophical understandings and various construction techniques, both representational and physical. When readings are assigned, be prepared to discuss, bring passages or images from the readings as it relates to your studio projects.
General References
Ted Talk - The danger of a single story. Adichie, C. N. 2009
Book - Designs for the Pluriverse. Arturo Escobar 2018
Book - LOG 42: Disorienting Phenomenology 2018
Book - Architecture and Capitalism 1845 to the present. Peggy Deamer 2014
Book - The Arsenal of Exclusion and Inclusion. Interboro 2021
Book - Architectural Ethnography. Momoyo Kaijima, Stadler, Iseki 2018
Representation
Book - Design Technics. Zeynep Alexander, John May. 2019
Book - An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures without Architecture
Essay - Why Scale Figures in architectural images need to be more diverse
Essay - Fare Buona Figura: Some Remarks...
~Models:
Essay - Architecture as Craft Maltzan
Essay - Models are Real Eliasson
Essay - Thinking in Models. Allen, S. 2020. Log 50: Model Behavior
Essay - Form / Formless Peter Zumthor’s Models. Berteloot, M., Patteeuw, V.
Book - Frei Otto: Thinking by modeling. Vrachliotis, G., Kleinmanns, J., Kunz, M., & Kurz, P. 2017
Essay - Architecture, Model, Performance. Brejzek, T, Wallen, L. 2022
~Imagery:
Book - The embodied image: Imagination and imagery in architecture. Pallasmaa, J. (2011).
Book - Signal, Image, Architecture. John May 2019
Lecture/essay - Architecture’s Digital Turn and the Advent of Photoshop. Amy Kulper
Book - Reality Modeled After Images. Michael Young 2021
~Drawing
Book - Graphic anatomy 2. Atelier Bow-Wow 2014
Essay - Everything is already an image. John May 2019
Essay - Architectural Drawing: The Conventions and Thetoric of Architectural Drawing. James S. Ackerman.
Essay - Paradigms in Poche. Michael Young 2019
~Program
Essay - Good Buildings Behaving Badly - Log 35. Burke, A. 2015
Essay - A Call for Strange Housing. Jenny and Anda French. 2020
~Aesthetics
Book - Less Aesthetics More Ethics. Massimiliano Fuksas 2001
Essay - On Rasquachismo. Kathryn O’Rourke