Precedents in Critical Practice

Urban Plan ⇒ Map of Operations

TYPE	READINGS
Session 5
Required	Foucault, Michel. “Space, Knowledge and Power.” In The Foucault Reader. Edited by Paul Rabinow. Pantheon, 1984, pp. 239–56. ISBN: 9780394713403. De Certeau, Michel. “Spatial Practices: Walking in the City.” In The Practice of Everyday Life. University of California Press, 1984, pp. 91–110. ISBN: 9780520047501. Tschumi, Bernard. “Spaces and Events.” In Architecture and Disjunction. MIT Press, 1994, pp. 139_–_49. ISBN: 9780262200943.
Recommended	Koolhaas, Rem. “[Urbanism after Innocence: Four Projects: The Reinvention of Geometry](http://dx.doi.org/ 10.2307/3171207).” Assemblage 18 (1992): 704–07. Tschumi, Bernard. The Manhattan Transcripts: Theoretical Projects. Expanded edition. St. Martin’s Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780312512866. Eisenman, Peter. “Folding In Time: The Singularity of Rebstock.” In D: Columbia Documents of Architecture and Theory 2 (1993): 99–112.
Peruse	Tschumi, Bernard. The Manhattan Transcripts: Theoretical Projects. Expanded edition. St. Martin’s Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780312512866.
Session 6
Required	Allen, Stan. “Field Conditions.” In Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City. Princeton Architectural Press, 1999, pp. 92–103. ISBN: 9781568981550. [Preview with Google Books] Corner, James, eds. “Eidetic Operations and New Landscapes.” In Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture. Princeton Architectural Press, 1999, pp. 153–68. ISBN: 9781568981796. [Preview with Google Books] Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. “Introduction: Rhizome.” In A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press, 1987, pp. 3–13. ISBN: 9780816614028.
Recommended	Allen, Stan. “From Object to Field.” (PDF - 1.5MB) Architectural Design: After Geometry 67, no. 5/6 (1995): 24–31. Kwinter, Sanford. “The Complex and the Singular.” In Architectures of Time. MIT Press, 2001, pp. 2–31. ISBN: 9780262112604.
Peruse	Allen, Stan. Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City. Princeton Architectural Press, 1999. ISBN: 9781568981550. [Preview with Google Books]