DS04 at University of Westminster

Readings

Texts 01: Graphic

• Kandinsky: Points-Line (ISBN: 0486238083)
• Kimberly Elam: The Grid System (ISBN: 1568984650)
• Kimberly Elam: Typographic Systems of design (ISBN: 1568986874)
• Kimberly Elam: Geometry of Design (ISBN: 1616890363)
• Christian Leborg: Visual Grammar (ISBN: 1568985819)
• Ellen Lupton and Jennifer C. Phillips: Graphic Design: The New Basics (ISBN: 1568987021)

Texts 02: Typography Magazine and Books

• 8vo (Octavo)
• Eye magazine
• Emigré magazine
• Graphik
• Étapes Graphiques
• Creative Review
• Idea:  Idea Magazine n. 256
• Willi Kunz: Micro-Macro Typography
• Binding, stitching, etc..

Texts 02: Collages

• David wild: Fragments of Utopia, ISBN 0-907259-10-3, extract
• Robert Klanten (ed.):  Cutting Edges, Contemporary Collage ISBN-10: 3899553381

Texts 03: Sequences

• Roberts Evans: Doors & Passageway
• Stefan Sharff: The elements of cinema: toward a theory of cinesthetic impact
• Tschumi: Sequences

• Tschumi: Spaces and Events

Texts 03: Materiality

• Adrian Forty: On Concrete Forty Untimely Matter
• Pierre Chareau: La maison de verre. Video By Richard Copland and Plan

Texts 04: Frame and vision

• Architectural drawings Today: Cinemetrics
• Film we spoke about: DS04 film List Studies

Texts 05: Movement

• Saul Bass: On Titles (Full DVD) extract
• Pulp Fiction Typography extract
• OneDotZero Typography website
• Titles Website
• Gyorgy Kepes: Language of Vision

Texts 06: Housings: typology and samples

• R. Weston: Key buildings of the 20th Century: Plan Section, Elevations.
• Roger Sherwood:  Modern housing prototypes
• F. Schneider: Floor Plan Manual Intro and Plans
• G. Pfeifer & P. Brauneck: A Housing typology row-town Houses
• G. Pfeifer & P. Brauneck: Housing typology courtyard 02
• G. Pfeifer & P. Brauneck: Housings Typology Free standing

Texts 06b: Literal – Phenomenological

• C. Rowe & R. Slutkin: Essay on Transparency
• Andrea Pozzo: St Ignazio ceiling

Texts 07a: Interactivity Concept

• Lucy Bullivant (Architectural Design) 4dSocial: Interactive Design Environments
• Lucy Bullivant: Responsive Environments: Architecture, Art and Design (V&A Contemporaries)
• Paola Antonelli and James Hunt: Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects
• Michael Fox and Miles Kemp: Interactive Architecture
• CJ Lim: Devices

Texts 07: Interactivity

• Arduino
  Beginners Guide to the Arduino
• Processing
• Beginners guide to processing
• Processing 01
• Processing 02
• Processing 03
• Lowtech sensors and actuators

Texts 08: Construction

• Ruth Slavid: Micro: Very Small Buildings
• Dimitris Kottas : Micro-Architecture: Minimum Dwelling Spaces
• Richard Horden: Micro Architecture: Lightweight, Mobile and Ecological Buildings for the Future
• Phyllis Richardson: XS Extreme: Big Ideas, Small Buildings
• Phyllis Richardson: Nano House: Innovations for Small Dwellings
• Bruno Reichlin: for or against the long window: Perret & Le corbusier controversy

Texts 09: Fabrication

• Moma: Home delivery Exhibition: Fabricating the modern dwelling
• Jean Prouvè: The Tropical Pavillion
• Tent 2007 Prefabricated Pavillon made By Alex Haw architect (2 days site fabrication) You tube video & few pictures and link to tent
• Marcos Cruz and Marjan coletti Nurbster series (I to VII) website and  research Abstact
• Lisa Iwamoto: Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques
• Bob Sheil: (Architectural Design) Design through Making
• Bob Sheil: (Architectural Design) Proto Architecture: Analogue and Digital Hybrids
• Materials for models and devices : Supplier guide

Texts 10: Diagrams

• Mark Garcia: The diagrams of Architecture: Library ref: 720.284 DIA
  Look for the intro  and the text by Vidler and Tshumi.
• Hyungmin Pai: The portfolio and the diagram: Architecture, discourse & modernity in America.
• Peter Eisenman: “Feints” edited by silvio Cassarà. edition Skira, Milano 2006. extract 1 What is a diagram and  extract 2 The diagram of Peter Eisenman

Texts 11: Management

Texts 16: Site

• To Scale: One Hundred Urban Plans by Eric Jenkins: to Scale
• Great street01 and Great street02
• C.P. Graves: Genealogy of cities: Typographical Make-up
• Alexander: pattern language
• C.Steenbergen: Composing Landscape
• Kevin Lynch: The Image of the City
• Stage Drama: Adolphe Appia

Texts 17: Program

Example / Building Reference

• building references