Friday, May 22, 2009

Recommended Readings #1

"THE TIMELESS WAY OF BUILDING"
by Christopher Alexander [1979] 10/10
keywords: patterns in architecture supported by events as the generative process of spatial quality,

"A THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE"
by Nikos A. Salingaros [2007] 9/10
keywords: spatial performance, design science, diagnosis, hyphothesis, mathematics, urbanism

"CRITICAL ARCHITECTURE"
edited by Jane Rendell, Jonathan Hill, Murray Fraser and Mark Dorrian [2007] 7/10
keywords: literary criticism, design criticism

"ANTI-ARCHITECTURE AND DECONSTRUCTION"
by Nikos A. Salingaros [2008] 10/10
keywords: literary criticism, criticism of architecture not only influenced by Deconstruction but of 20th-century Modernism

"THE ARCHITECTURE OF DECONSTRUCTION: DERRIDA'S HAUNT"
by Mark Wigley [1993] 9/10
keywords: translation, language

"THE ESSENTIAL FRANK LLYOD WRIGHT: CRITICAL WRITINGS ON ARCHITETURE"
by Frank Llyod and Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer [2008] 8/10
keywords: manifestos

"S,M,L,XL"
by Remkoolhaas, Bruce Mau, and Hans Werlemann [1997] 10/10
keywords: essays, manifestos, diaries, travelogues, politics, context, economy, globaization

"ARCHITECTURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE: DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING"
by Branko Kolarevic [2003] 10/10
keywords: technology, fabrication, BIM, materiality, integrated design, new materials, project delivery system

"PRINCIPLES OF URBAN STRUCTURE - DESIGN, SCIENCE, PLANNING"
by Nikos A. Saingaros [2005] 10/10
reviving human-city through means of technology (science and mathematics, how cities operates + grow


"Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences"
by Jacques Derrida
study notes: here
keywords: deconstruction, linguistics, read between the lines...hoahoaoho

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