Readings

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Field Conditions

Diagrams Matter (optional)

by Stan Allen

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Give Me a Gun and I Will Make All Buildings Move

by Bruno Latour and Albena Yaneva

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Not Unlike Life Itself

by James Corner

click here for a link to James Corner’s article Not Unlike Life Itself.  Consider the ideas of time and systems.  We will also discuss this and his project the High Line in New York as a framework for participation.  His Lifescape project with Stan Allen also consider building on Bernard Tschumi’s ideas of time with the Parc de La Villette.

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The Art of the Long View

By Peter Schwartz

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Click here for Between Diagrams and Matter by Alejandro Zaera-Polo

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Diagrams_Envisioning_Architecture_Fraser

(Introduction to Diagrams, Eisenman, Meier, Kried, Jefferson, Kahn)

sekler_structure construction tectonics

(Good discussion of structure and construction, Semper, Mies)

tehrani_a murder in the court

(another discussion of revealing construction as a language of architecture- Nader Terhani, Chair at MIT Architecture)

charlesjencks

(Expression of architecture, Adolf Loos *warning, some content may be offensive.)

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Towards New Horizons in Architecture by Tadao Ando