Readings

Readings are classified as required, recommended, or for perusal. Readings assigned for each session are coupled under their respective themes, and are the basis of in-class discussions.

SES #	THEME
1-2	Introduction
3-4	City ⇒ Global Economy
5-6	Urban Plan ⇒ Map of Operations
7-8	Program ⇒ Performance
9-10	Drawing ⇒ Scripting
11-12	Image ⇒ Surface
13-14	Utopia ⇒ Projection

The following are recommended texts from which a number of the course readings are taken:

Hays, K. Michael. Architecture’s Desire: Reading the Late Avant-Garde. MIT Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780262513029.

Sykes, A. Krysta. Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural Theory 1993–2008. Princeton Architectural Press, 2010. ISBN: 9781568988597. [Preview with Google Books]

Moneo, Rafael. Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects. Translated by Gina Cariño. MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780262134439.

TYPE	READINGS
Session 3
Required	Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour. Learning from Las Vegas. MIT Press, 1972, pp. 3–9, 18–20, 34–5, 49–53 and 72. ISBN: 9780262220156. Jameson, Fredric. “Postmodernism and Consumer Society.” In The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern (1983-1998). Verso, 1998, pp. 1–20. [Preview with Google Books]
Recommended	Moneo, Rafael. “Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.” In Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategy in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects. MIT Press, 2004, pp. 51–100. ISBN: 9780262134439. Huyssen, Andreas. After The Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism. Indiana University Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780253203991. [Preview with Google Books] Brown, Denise Scott. “Learning from Pop.” In Architecture Theory Since 1968. Edited by K. Michael Hays. MIT Press, 1998, pp. 60–6. ISBN: 9780262082617. Martin, Reinhold. “Architecture’s Image Problem: Have We Ever Been Postmodern?” Grey Room 22 (2006): 6–29.
Peruse	Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour. Learning from Las Vegas. MIT Press, 1972. ISBN: 9780262220156. Rowe, Colin, and Fred Koetter. Collage City. MIT Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780262680424. Koolhaas, Rem. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto. Oxford University Press, 1978. ISBN: 9782851081735.
Session 4
Required	Koolhaas, Rem. “Globalization.” In S, M, L, XL. The Monacelli Press, 1995, pp. 363–9. ISBN: 9781885254016. ———. “What Ever Happened to Urbanism.” In S, M, L, XL. The Monacelli Press, 1995, pp. 960–71. ISBN: 9781885254016. ———. “The Generic City.” In S, M, L, XL. The Monacelli Press, 1995, pp. 1238–64. ISBN: 9781885254016. ———. “Junkspace.” In Content. Taschen, 2004, pp. 162–71. ISBN: 9783822830703. Foster, Hal. “Design and Crime.” In Praxis 5: Architecture After Capitalism. Praxis Inc., 2003, pp. 11–23. ISBN: 9780970314055. Speaks, Michael, Michael Hays, Sanford Kwinter, et al. “The Design and Crime Forum.” In Praxis 5: Architecture After Capitalism. Praxis Inc., 2003, pp. 11–23. ISBN: 9780970314055.
Recommended	Moneo, Rafael. “Rem Koolhaas.” In Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategy in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects. MIT Press, 2004, pp. 307–59. ISBN: 9780262134439. Koolhaas, Rem. “White Briefs Against Filth: The Waning power of New York.” In Content. Taschen, 2004, pp. 236–9. ISBN: 9783822830703. Kwinter, Sanford, ed. “Flying the Bullet, or When Did the Future Begin?” In Rem Koolhaas: Conversations with Students. Princeton Architectural Press, 1996, pp. 68–91. ISBN: 9781885232021. [Preview with Google Books] Kwinter, Sanford. “New Babylons: Urbanism at the End of the Millennium.” In Assemblage 25 (1995): 80–1. Koolhass, Rem, and Hans Ulrich Obrist. “Re-learning from Las Vegas: Interview with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.” In Content. Taschen, 2004, pp. 150–7. ISBN: 9783822830703. Scott, Felicity. “On Architecture Under Capitalism.” Grey Room 6 (2002): 44–65. Koolhaas, Rem. “The Ultimate Atlas for the 21st Century.” Wired, June 2003, 132–69.
Peruse	Koolhaas, Rem. S, M , L, XL. The Monacelli Press, 1995. ISBN: 9781885254016. Koolhaas, Rem, Stefano Boeri, Sanford Kwinter, et al. Mutations. Actar, 2001. ISBN: 9788495273512. Schafer, Ashley, and Amanda Reeser, eds_. Praxis 5: Architecture After Capitalism_. Praxis Inc., 2003. ISBN: 9780970314055.

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. ———. “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 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.

TYPE	READINGS
Session 11
Required	Rossi, Aldo. The Architecture of the City. MIT Press, 1982, pp. 21–41. ISBN: 9780262181013. [Preview with Google Books] Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott-Brown, and Steven Izenour. “Theories of Ugly and Ordinary and Related Contrary Theories.” In Learning from Las Vegas. MIT Press, 1972, pp. 128–63. ISBN: 9780262220156.
Recommended	Moneo, Rafael. “Aldo Rossi.” In Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategy in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects. MIT Press, 2004, pp. 101–42. ISBN: 9780262134439. Hays, K. Michael. “Odysseus and the Oarsman, or, Mies’s Abstraction Once Again.” In The Presence of Mies. Edited by Detlef Mertins. Princeton Architectural Press, 1996, pp. 235–48. ISBN: 9781568980133. Jameson, Fredric. “Transformations of the Image in Postmodernity.” In The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern 1938–1998. Verso, 1998, pp. 93–135. ISBN: 9781859841822. Martin, Reinhold. “Atrocities, or Curtain Wall as Mass Medium.” Perspecta 32 (2001): 66–75. Hays, K. Michael. “Mies Effect.” In Mies in America. Edited by Phyllis Lambert. Harry N. Abrams, 2001. ISBN: 9780810967281. Martin, Reinhold. “Architecture’s Image Problem: Have We Ever Been Postmodern?” Grey Room 22 (2006): 6–29.
Peruse	Rossi, Aldo. The Architecture of the City. MIT Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780262181013. [Preview with Google Books]
Session 12
Required	Hays, K. Michael. “Critical Architecture Between Culture and Form.” Perspecta 21 (1984): 14–29. ———. “The Envelope as Mediator.” In The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Edited by Bernard Tschumi and Irene Cheng. The Monacelli Press, 2004, pp. 66–7. ISBN: 9781580931342. Kipnis, Jeffrey. “The Cunning of Cosmetics.” El Croquis 84 (1997): 22–8. Zaera-Polo, Alejandro. “The Politics of the Envelope.” Volume 17 (2008): 76–105.
Recommended	Moneo, Rafael. “Herzog and de Meuron.” In Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategy in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects. MIT Press, 2004, pp. 361–404. ISBN: 9780262134439. Deamer, Peggy. “Structuring Surfaces: The Legacy of Whites.” Perspecta 32 (2001): 90–9. Taylor, Mark. “Reflections on Skin.” In Columbia Documents of Architecture and Theory. C. B. A., 1997, 13–20. Davidson, Cynthia. “An interview with Herzog & de Meuron.” ANY 13 (1996): 48–58. Kwinter, Sanford. “Playboys of the Western World.” ANY 13 (1996): 62.
Peruse	Riley, Terence. Light Construction: Museum of Modern Art. Harry N Abrams, 1995. ISBN: 9780810961548. [Preview with Google Books]

TYPE	READINGS
Session 1
Required	Wigley, Mark. “Story-time.” Assemblage 27 (1995): 80–94. Jarzombek, Mark. “Un-messy Realism and the Decline of the Architectural Mind.” Perspecta 40 (2008): 82–4.
Recommended	Hays, K. Michael. “Critical Architecture Between Culture and Form.” Perspecta 21 (1984): 14–29. ———. “Theory Constitutive Conventions and Theory Change.” Assemblage, no. 1 (1986): 116–28. Lavin, Sylvia. “The Temporary Contemporary.” In Perspecta 34. MIT Press, 2003, pp. 128. ISBN:9780262523394. Barthes, Roland. “What is Criticism?” In Critical Essays. Translated by Richard Howard. Northwestern University Press, 1972. ISBN:9780810105898. [Preview with Google Books]
Session 2
Required	Zaera-Polo, Alejandro. “A Scientific Autobiography.” Harvard Design Magazine 21, Fall 2003 / Winter 2004, 5–15. Whiting, Sarah. “Critical Reflections.” Assemblage 41 (2000): 88–9. Eisenman, Peter. “Autonomy and the Will to the Critical.” Assemblage 41 (2000): 90–1. Somol, R. E. “In the Wake of Assemblage.” Assemblage 41 (2000): 92–3. Martin, Reinhold. “Double Agency.” Assemblage 41 (2000): 49. Kurgan, Laura. “Trying not to Avoid Propositions Altogether.” Assemblage 41 (2000): 37. Van Toorn, Roemer. “Beyond Wonderland.” In Hunch 6/7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple And Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today And Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow. Educational Studies Press, 2003, pp. 10. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books] Arets, Wiel. “Different Strategies.” In Hunch 6/7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple And Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today And Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow. Educational Studies Press, 2003, pp. 69–71. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books] Mertins, Detlef. “Job Description.” In Hunch 6/7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple And Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today And Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow. Educational Studies Press, 2003, pp. 335. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books] Speaks, Michael. “Design Intelligence.” In Hunch 6/7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple And Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today And Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow. Educational Studies Press, 2003, pp. 416–21. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books] Allen, Stan, and James Corner. “Urban Natures.” In The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Edited by Bernard Tschumi and Irene Cheng. The Monacelli Press, 2004, pp. 16–7. ISBN: 9781580931342.
Recommended	Allen, Stan. “Revising Our Expertise.” In Hunch 6/7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple And Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today And Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow. Educational Studies Press, 2003, pp. 64–6. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books] Maas, Winy. “Architecture is a Device.” In Hunch 6/7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple And Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today And Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow. Educational Studies Press, 2003, pp. 321–4. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books] Sorkin, Michael. “The Avant-Garde in Time of War.” In The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century. The Monacelli Press, 2004, pp. 22–3. ISBN: 9781580931342.
Peruse	Tschumi, Bernard, and Irene Cheng. The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century. The Monacelli Press, 2004. ISBN: 9781580931342. Sigler, Jennifer, and Roemer Van Toorn. “The Berlage Institute Report.” In Hunch 6/7. Educational Studies Pr, 2003. ISBN: 9789080536265. Assemblage 41 (2000). Somol, R. E., and Sarah Whiting, eds. Log 5. Anyone Corporation, 2005. ISBN: 9780974652146. Harvard Design Magazine 20, Spring/Summer 2004.

TYPE	READINGS
Session 7
Required	Eisenman, Peter. “Post-Functionalism.” In Architecture Theory Since 1968. Edited by K. Michael Hays. MIT Press, 1998, pp. 234–9. ISBN: 9780262082617. Rowe, Colin. “Program versus Paradigm: Otherwise Casual Notes on the Pragmatic, the Typical and the Possible.” In As I Was Saying: Recollections and Miscellaneous Essays: Texas, Pre-Texas, Cambridge. MIT Press, 1995, pp. 36–42. ISBN: 9780262181723. Vidler, Anthony. “Toward a Theory of the Architectural Program.” (PDF) October 106, no. 1 (2003): 59–74. Koolhaas, Rem, and Bernard Tschumi. “2 Architects, 10 Questions on Program.” (PDF - 2.5MB) Praxis 8 (2007): 6–15.
Recommended	Delanda, Manuel. “Deleuze, Diagrams and the Genesis of Form.” ANY 23 (1998): 30–4. McMorrough, John. “Notes on the Adaptive Re-Use of Program.” Praxis 8 (2006). Summerson, John. “The Case for a Theory of Modern Architecture.” RIBA Journal (1957): 307–10. Banham, Reyner. “Architecture After 1960.” Architectural Review 127 (1960).
Session 8
Required	Silvetti, Jorge. “The Muses are not Amused, Pandemonium in the House of Architecture.” Harvard Design Magazine 19, Fall 2003/Winter 2004, 22–33. Kwinter, Sanford. “Concepts: The Architecture of Hope.” (PDF) Harvard Design Magazine 19, Fall 2003/Winter 2004, 1–4. Wigley, Mark. “The Architecture of Atmosphere.” Daidalos 68 (1998): 18–27. Van Berkel, Ben, and Caroline Bos. “The New Concept of the Architect.” In MOVE. Goose Press, 1999, pp. 27–33. ISBN: 9789076517018.
Recommended	Kipnis, Jeffrey. “The Cunning of Cosmetics.” El Croquis 84 (1997): 22–8. Finley, Dawn, and Mark Wamble. “The Rest of the World Exists.” In Perspecta 34. MIT Press, 2003, pp. 128. ISBN:9780262523394. Arch + 188 (July 2008).
Peruse	Van Berkel, Ben, and Caroline Bos. “Diagram Work.” ANY 23 (1998). Van Berkel, Ben, and Caroline Bos. “The New Concept of the Architect.” In MOVE. Goose Press, 1999, pp. 27–33. ISBN: 9789076517018. Kipnis, Jeff, Sanford Kwinter, et al. Mood River. The Wexner Center for the Arts, 2002. ISBN: 9781881390305. Migayrou, Fredric, Beatrice Simmonot, and Marie-Ange Brayer, eds. Archilab: Radical Experiments in Global Architecture. Thames and Hudson, 2001. ISBN: 9780500283127.

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]

TYPE	READINGS
Session 13
Required	Tafuri, Manfredo. “L’Architecture dans le Boudoir; Architecture of Criticism and the Criticism of Language.” In Architecture Theory Since 1968. Edited by K. Michael Hays. MIT Press, 1998, pp. 148–67. ISBN: 9780262082617. Silvetti, Jorge. “The Beauty of Shadows.” In Architecture Theory Since 1968. Edited by K. Michael Hays. MIT Press, 1998, pp. 262–83. ISBN: 9780262082617.
Recommended	Latour, Bruno. “An Attempt at a Compositionist Manifesto.” New Literary History 41, no. 2 (2010): 471–90. Horkheimer, Max, and Theodore Adorno. “Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception.” In Dialectic of Enlightenment. Continuum, 1998, pp. 3–42. ISBN: 9781859841549.
Peruse	Tafuri, Manfredo. Architecture and Utopia, Design and Capitalist Development. MIT Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780262700207. [Preview with Google Books]
Session 14
Required	Koolhaas, Rem. “Europeans: Biuer! Dali and Le Corbusier Conquer New York.” In Delirious New York. The Monacelli Press, 1997, pp. 235–49. ISBN: 9781885254009. Whiting, Sarah, and R. E. Somol. “Notes around the Doppler Effect and other Moods of Modernism.” Perspecta 33 (2002): 72–7. Martin, Reinhold. “Critical of What?” Harvard Design Magazine 21. Heynen, Hilde. “The Need for Utopian thinking in Architecture.” In Hunch 6/7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple And Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today And Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow. Educational Studies Press, 2003, pp. 241–3. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books]
Recommended	Eagleton, Terry. After Theory. Basic Books, 2004. ISBN: 9780465017744. Speaks, Michael. “Big Soft Orange Exhibition Introduction.” Archis 8 (1995): 80. Maas, Winy, and MVRDV. “Toward an Urbanistic Architecture.” In The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Edited by Bernard Tschumi and Irene Cheng. The Monacelli Press, 2004, pp. 14–5. ISBN: 9781580931342. Zaera-Polo, Alejandro. “Breeding Architecture.” In The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Edited by Bernard Tschumi and Irene Cheng. The Monacelli Press, 2004, pp. 56–7. ISBN: 9781580931342. Foucault, Michel. “What is Revolution?” In The Politics of Truth. Semiotext, 1997, pp. 83–100. ISBN: 9781570270277. Mau, Bruce. “An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth.” In Life Style. Phaidon Press, 2000, pp. 88–91. ISBN: 9789707906396. Goodman, Nelson. Ways of Worldmaking. Hackett Publishing Company, 1978. ISBN: 9780915144525. [Preview with Google Books]
Peruse	Sigler, Jennifer, and Roemer Van Toorn. Hunch 6/7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple And Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today And Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow. Educational Studies Press, 2003. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books]

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