STRUCTURAL & SENSORY SYSTEMS I

Art Center College of Design, Department of Environmental Design, Fall 2003

READER

gravity & structure:
‘atomic architecture, multi sources synthesis’
from architectural design vol. 65 no. 1/2 95 / pages iii-vii / battle, mccarthy / 1995

‘earth as a british building material
from architectural design vol. 67 no. 1/2 97 / pages 87-89 / linda watson / 1997

‘down to earth buildings’
from architectural design vol. 67 no. 1/2 97 / pages 90-93 / sumita sinha / 1997

‘contemporary techniques in architecture’
ali rahim, ed. / pages 9-19, 72-76, 102-107 / 2002

'your private sky: r. buckminster fuller'
j. krausse, ed. / exerpts / 2001

air & atmosphere:
'the architecture of the well tempered environment'
reyner banham / pages 18-28, 171-194 / 1969

‘post air conditioned architecture’
from architectural design vol. 67 no. 3/4 97 / pages iii-v / battle, mccarthy / 1997

‘the soundscape of modernity’
emily thompson / pages 18-33 / 2002

light & sun:
‘towards the light, multi sources synthesis’
from architectural design vol. 66 no. 3/4 96 / battle, mccarthy / pages ii-iii / 1996
‘sun rhythm form'
ralph l. knowles / pages 3-17 / 1981

water & life:
‘ground level’
nadir lahiji and d.s. friedman / from plumbing: sounding modern architecture / xavier costa / pages 93-100 / 1997

'the los angeles river'
blake gumprecht / pages 1-39, 235-301 / 1999

communities & the urban:
‘the non-linear development of cities’
amerigo marras, editor / from eco-tec, the architecture of the in-between / manuel de landa / pages 23-30 / 1999

‘the death and life of great american cities’
jane jacobs / pages 5-34 / 1961

‘the timeless way of building’
colin rowe / 1979

transportation & communication:
‘towards a new architecture’
le corbusier / pages 89-148 / 1931

‘los angeles: the architecture of four ecologies’
reyner banham / pages 75-93 / 1971

‘the suburban home companion: television’
from sexuality and space / beatriz, ed. / lynne spigel / pages 185-215 / 1992

animals & plants:
‘evolutionary architecture’
eugene tsui / pages 2-17, 86-131 / 1999

‘the monumental impulse’
george hersey / pages 2-39 / 1999

additional reading:
'itten: the elements of color' / f. birren, ed. / 1961
'interaction of color' / josef albers
'the architecture of the city' / aldo rossi / 1966
'building construction illustrated' / francis ching / 2001
'sustaining architecture in the anti-machine age' / ian abley / 2001
'sustainable architecture' / jacobo krauel / 2002
'the artificial landscape' / hans ibelings / 2000
'sun, wind & light' / g.z. brown / 1985
'the beehive metaphor' / juan a. ramirez / 1998
'body and building' / george dodds, ed.
'architecture without architect' / bernard rudofsky / 1965
'the pattern language' / colin rowe / 1977
'desiring practices: architecture, gender & the interdisciplinary' / duncan mccorquodale / 1996
'primitive architecture' / venrico guidoni / 1975
'architecture and the environment' / david lloyd jones / 1998
'water and architecture' / charles moore / 1994
'solar energy, architecture and urban plannin' / thomas herzog, ed / 1998
'blobmeister' / peter cachola,ed / 2001
'waterscapes' / herbert dreiseitl / 2001