Image ⇒ Surface

TYPE READINGS
Session 11
Required

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Rossi, Aldo. The Architecture of the City. MIT Press, 1982, pp. 21–41. ISBN: 9780262181013. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon 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

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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 Buy at MIT Press 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.

Buy at Amazon ———. "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

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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 Buy at Amazon Riley, Terence. Light Construction: Museum of Modern Art. Harry N Abrams, 1995. ISBN: 9780810961548. [Preview with Google Books]