4.210 | Fall 2012 | Graduate

Precedents in Critical Practice

Readings

Drawing ⇒ Scripting

TYPE READINGS
Session 9
Required

Evans, Robin. “Translations from Drawing to Building.” In Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays. MIT Press, 1997, pp. 153–93. ISBN: 9780262550277.

Buy at MIT Press ———. “In Front of Lines that Leave Nothing Behind: Chamber Works.” In Architecture Theory Since 1968. Edited by K. Michael Hays. MIT Press, 1998, pp. 480–90. ISBN: 9780262082617.

Hays, K. Michael. “Architecture by Numbers.” In Praxis: Journal of Writing and Building, Issue 7: Untitled Number Seven. Praxis Inc., 2005, pp. 88–99. ISBN: 9780970314079.

Recommended

Robbins, Edward. “The Social Uses of Drawing: Drawing and Architectural Practice.” In Why Architects Draw. MIT Press, 1997, pp. 27–49. ISBN: 9780262680981

Buy at MIT Press Evans, Robin. “Seeing Through Paper.” In The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries. MIT Press, 2000, pp. 107–21. ISBN: 9780262550383. [Peview with Google Books]

Peruse Kipnis, Jeffrey, Terence Riley, and Sherri Geldin, eds. Perfect Acts of Architecture Exhibition Catalogue. Museum of Modern Art, 2002. ISBN: 9780870700392.
Session 10
Required

Somol, R. E. “Dummy Text, Or The Diagrammatic Basis of Contemporary Architecture.” In Diagram Diaries. Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1999, pp. 6–25. ISBN: 9780500237687.

Lynn, Greg. “Geometry in Time.” In Anyhow. Edited by Cynthia Davidson. MIT Press, 1998, pp. 165–73. ISBN: 9780262540957.

Allen, Stan. “The Digital Complex.” In Log 5. Anyone Corporation, 2005, pp. 93–9. ISBN: 9780974652146.

Schumacher, Patrick. “The Parametricist’s Manifesto.” 2008.

Meredith, Michael. “Never Enough.” In From Control to Design: Parametric/Algorithmic Architecture. Actar, 2008, pp. 6–9. ISBN: 9788496540798.

Recommended

Deleuze, Gilles. “587 B.C.-A.D. 70: On Several Regimes of Signs.” In A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press, 1987, pp. 141–8. ISBN: 9780816614028.

Benjamin, Andrew. “Lines of Work: On Diagrams and Drawing.” In Architectural Philosophy: Repetition, Function, Alterity. Continuum, 2001, pp. 143–55. ISBN: 9780485004151. [Preview with Google Books]

Picon, Antoine. “Science, Technology and the Virtual Realm.” In Architecture and the Sciences: Exchanging Metaphors. Edited by in Alessandra Ponte and Antoine Picon. Princeton Architectural Press, 2003, pp. 292–313. ISBN: 9781568983653. [Preview with Google Books]

McMorrough, John. “Ru(M)inationation: The Haunts of Contemporary Architecture.” Perspecta 40 (2008): 164–9.

Peruse

Van Berkel, Ben, and Caroline Bos. “Diagram Work.” ANY 23 (1998).

Maas, Winy, Jacob van Rijs, and Richard Koek, eds. FarMax. Uitgeverij 010 Publishers, 1998. ISBN: 9789064502668.

Meredith, Michael. From Control to Design: Parametric/Algorithmic Architecture. Actar, 2008. ISBN: 9788496540798.

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