Readings

Students were required to complete the readings and view the assigned reference material. Other films and links were provided as supplements.

LECTURE TOPICS READINGS AND REFERENCES
A Trans‐Scalar‐Practice: 10‐03 to 10+07 (From Objects to Earth through Time and Space)

Required Readings

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Rasmussen, S. E. "Scale and Proportion." Chapter 5 in Experiencing Architecture. MIT Press, 1964, pp. 104–26. ISBN: 9780262680028. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon ———. "Rhythm in Architecture." Chapter 6 in Experiencing Architecture. MIT Press, 1964, pp. 127–58. ISBN: 9780262680028. [Preview with Google Books]

Take a Look At

Buy at Amazon Morrison, P. & P., C. & R. Eames. Selection from Powers of Ten: a Book about the Relative Size of Thingsin the Universe and the Effect of Adding another Zero. W. H. Freeman & Company/Scientific American Books, 1982.

Buy at Amazon Corner, J. "The Medium of Drawing: Projection, Notation and Representation." In Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader. Edited by S. Swaffield. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002, pp. 149–65. ISBN: 9780812218213. [Preview with Google Books]

Moneo, R. "This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.On Typology." (PDF 10.3MB) Oppositions 13 (1978): 22–45.

Films and Links

Eames, Charles, and Ray Eames. "Powers of Ten." Eames Office, 1977.

Design Q & A. Directed by Charles, and Ray Eames. Color. 5 min. 1972. The Films of Charles and Ray Eames. Vol. 4. Chatsworth, CA: Image Entertainment, 2005. DVD.

Blow-Up. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Color. 11 min. DVD. 1966. Warner Home Video, 2004.

10+00 the Human Scale: Bauhaus/Eames

Required Readings

Buy at Amazon Kieran, S., and J. Timberlake. "Argument." In Refabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies are Poised to Transform Building Construction. McGraw-Hill Professional, 2003, pp. x–xiii. ISBN: 9780071433211.

Take a Look At

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Wingler, Hans M. "Origin and History of the Bauhaus." In The Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago. MIT Press, 1978, pp. 1–11. ISBN: 9780262730471.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Gropius, W. The New Architecture and the Bauhaus. MIT Press, 1965. ISBN: 9780262570060. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Neuhart, J., M. Neuhart, and R. Eames. Eames Design: The Work of the Office of Charles and Ray Eames. Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn Verlag fur Architektur und technische Wissenschaften, 1989. ISBN: 9783433022962.

Films and Links

Buy at Amazon Bauhaus: The Face of the 20th Century. Directed by Frank Whitford. Black and White/ color, 55 min. DVD. 1994. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2004.

Buy at Amazon The Films of Charles and Ray Eames. Directed by Charles and Ray Eames. 1972. Image Entertainment, 2005.

Eames: the Architect and the Painter. Directed by Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey. Color, 85 min, DVD. 2011. First Run Features, 2011.

Objectified. Directed by Gary Hustwit. Color, 75 min. DVD. 2009. Plexifilm, 2010.

BauhausArchiveMuseum of Design

Eames Office

10+00 the Post-Human: Fuller/Archigram/Cedric Price

Required Readings

Buy at Amazon Cook, P. "An Archigram Legacy (1986)." In Peter Cook: Six Conversations. Academy ed. St Martins Press, 1993, pp. 123–25.ISBN: 9781854901569.

Take a Look At

Buy at Amazon Foster, S. N. "Richard Buckminster Fuller." In Buckminster Fuller. Anthology of the New Millennium. Edited by Thomas T. K. Zung. St. Martin's Press, 2001, pp. 1–8. ISBN: 9780312266394.

Buy at Amazon Crompton, D. A. Guide to Archigram 1961-1974. Academy ed. Ernst & Sohn, 1974. ISBN: 9781854903761.

Buy at Amazon Cook, P. The City Seen as a Garden of Ideas. Monacelli Press, 2004. ISBN: 9781580931083.

Buy at Amazon Wigley, M. Constant's New Babylon: the Hyper-Architecture of Desire. 010 Uitgeverij, 1999. ISBN: 9789064503436.

Films and Links

Arts at MIT. "Moving Beyond Materiality: MIT Visiting Artist Tomás Sarraceno." November 28, 2012. YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoZXt7ilkDo.

The Archigram Archival Project

MIT Media Labs we are visiting:

10+01 the Domestic Scale: Villas

Required Readings

Buy at Amazon Le Corbusier. "Regulating Lines." In Towards a New Architecture. Dover Publications, 1985, pp. 65–83. ISBN: 9780486250236.

Buy at Amazon ———. "Mass Production Houses." In Towards a New Architecture. Dover Publications, 1985, pp. 225–65. ISBN: 9780486250236.

Take a Look At

Buy at Amazon Gideon, S. "Le Corbusier and the Means of Architectonic Expression." In Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition. 5th ed. Revised and enlarged. Harvard University Press, 1977, pp. 518–86. ISBN: 9780674830400. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Anker, P. Excerpts in From Bauhaus to Eco-House: A History of Ecological Design. Louisiana State University Press, 2010, pp. 1–35. ISBN: 9780807135518.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Moneo, R. "Peter Eisenman." In Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects. MIT Press, 2004, pp. 146–97. ISBN: 9780262134439.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon ———. "Rem Koolhaas." In Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects. MIT Press, 2004, pp. 308–59. ISBN: 9780262134439.

Films and Links

Mathematics of Architecture: Building by Numbers. VHS. Produced by the Open University. 1996. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1997.

Mon Oncle. Directed by JaquesTati. Color, 117 min. DVD. 1958. The AV Channel, 2004.

KoolhaasHouselife. Directed by IlaBêka and Louise Lemoine. DVD. 2008. Bêka Films, 2008.

Foundation Le Corbusier

10+02 the Civic Scale: Bigness and Monumentality

Required Readings

Buy at Amazon Busquets, J., ed. "Synthetic Gestures: Key Buildings with Urban Synergies." In Cities X Lines: A New Lens for the Urban Project. Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2006, pp. 19–49. ISBN: 9788884472946.

Take a Look At

Buy at Amazon Koolhaas, R. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. The Monacelli Press, 1997. ISBN: 9781885254009. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Hays, Michael. "'Life in the Metropolis' or 'The Culture of Congestion.'" In Architecture Theory since 1968. MIT Press, 2000, pp. 320–30. ISBN: 9780262581882. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Koolhaas, R., B. Mau, and H. Werlemann. "Bignessor the Problem of Large." In S, M, L, XL. Monacelli Press, 1998, pp. 494–516. ISBN: 9781885254863.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Rossi, A. "Introduction" and "The Structure of Urban Artifacts." The Architecture of the City. MIT Press, 1984, pp. 13–61. ISBN: 9780262680431.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Rowe, C., and F. Koetter. "Collision City and the Politics of Bricolage." In Collage City. MIT Press, 1979, pp. 86–117. ISBN: 9780262180863.

Films and Links

Playtime. Directed by Jacques Tati. Color, 115 min. DVD. 1967. Criterion, 2006.

Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect. Directed by Markus Heidingsfelder and Min Tesch. Color. DVD. 2008. New Video Group, 2010.

American University of Beirut. "Rem Koolhaas Lecture on OMA's Work." May 31, 2010. YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQdjKR8hYxI.

10+03 the Neighborhood: The Urban Project

Required Readings

Buy at Amazon Busquets, J. "Defining the Urbanistic Project: Ten Contemporary Approaches." In Urban Design. Edited by Alex Krieger and William S. Saunders. University of Minnesota Press, 2009, pp. 131–35. ISBN: 9780816656394.

Take a Look At

Buy at Amazon Solà-Morales, M. Manuel de Solà-Morales: A Matter of Things. NAi Publishers, 2008. ISBN: 9789056625207.

Buy at Amazon Busquets, J., ed. Cities X Lines: A New Lens for the Urban Project. Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2006. ISBN: 9788884472946.

Buy at Amazon Smets, M. The Landscape of Contemporary Infrastructure. NAi Publishers, 2010. ISBN: 789056627201.

Films and Links

schwarzpictures.com. "DE DRAGER / A Film About Architect John Habraken." March 9, 2013. Vimeo. http://vimeo.com/61410893.

Manuel de Solá-Morales

Busquets, Joan. "Urban Projects," BAU.

10+04 the City: The Granite Garden

Guest Lecturer: Anne Whiston Spirn

Required Readings

Spirn, A. W. "Ecological Urbanism: A Framework for the Design of Resilient Cities." Springer Verlag, 2013.

Take a Look At

Buy at Amazon Spirn, A. W. The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design. Basic Books, 1985. ISBN: 9780465026982.

Buy at Amazon ———. The Language of Landscape. Yale University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780300077452.

———. This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader."The Poetics of City and Nature: Toward a New Aesthetic for Urban Design." (PDF) Landscape Journal 7, no. 2 (1988): 108–26.

———. The Eye is a Door. Wolf Tree Press, 2014.

Buy at Amazon Jacobs, J. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Vintage Books, 1992. ISBN: 9780679741954.

Buy at Amazon Mostafavi, M., and G. Doherty. Ecological Urbanism. Lars Muller Publishers, 2010. ISBN: 9783037781890.

10+05 the Metropolis: Megalopolis

Required Readings

Buy at Amazon Brenner, N. "Rescaling the Urban Question." In New Geographies, 0. Edited by Neyran Turan. Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2009, pp. 60–71. ISBN: 9781934510131. [Preview with Google Books]

Take a Look At

Buy at Amazon Banham, R. Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past. Thames and Hudson, 1976. ISBN: 9780064303712.

Buy at Amazon Lang, P., and W. Menking. Superstudio: Life Without Objects. Skira, 2003. ISBN: 9788884915696.

Buy at Amazon Friedman, Y. Excerpts from Yona Friedman/Pro Domo. ACTAR, 2006. ISBN: 9788496540514.

Films and Links

Urbanized. Directed by Gary Hustwit. Color, 85 min. DVD. 2011. Plexifilm, 2012.

Höweler + Yoon Architecture: Winners of the Audi Urban Future Award 2012

10+06 the Regional Scale: Manufactured Landscapes

Guest Lecturer: Dan Adams

Required Readings

Buy at Amazon Berger, A. "Lecture by Alan Berger." In Systemic Design can Change the World. Sun Architecture, 2009, pp. 11–25. ISBN: 9789085068761.

Take a Look At

Buy at Amazon Pauli, L. Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky. Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780300099430.

Buy at Amazon Berger, A. Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America. Princeton Architectural Press, 2006.

Buy at Amazon Ghosn, R., ed. New Geographies, 2: Landscapes of Energy. Harvard University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9781934510254.

Films and Links

Manufactured Landscapes. Directed by Jennifer Baichwal. Color, 86 min. DVD. 2007. Zeitgeist Films,2007.

Roadmap 2050

10+07 the Earth Scale: Conclusions

Required Readings

Buy at Amazon Sarkis, H. "The World According to Architecture." In New Geographies, 4: Scales of the Earth. Edited by E. H. Jazairy. Harvard Graudate School of Design, 2011. ISBN: 9781934510278. [Preview with Google Books]

Take a Look At

Buy at Amazon Panker, P. "Buckminster Fuller as Captain of Spaceship Earth." In Bauhaus to Eco-House: A History of Ecological Design. Louisiana State University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780807135518.

Buy at Amazon Sarkis, H. "New Geographies." In New Geographies, 0. Edited by Neyran Turan. Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2009, pp. 98–109. 9781934510131. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Doxiadis, C. A. "Man's Movement and His Settlements." In Constantinos A. Doxiadis: Texts, Design Drawings, Settlements. Edited by Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis. Ikaros, 2006, pp. 90–141. ISBN: 9789608399365.

Films and Links

Whole Earth Catalogue