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Special Problems in Architectural Design

Graduate · Historical course

Spring 2005

Topics

  • Introduction
  • Installation
  • Presentation
  • First short presentation on the chosen house
  • In class desk discussion
  • Final presentation of house analysis
  • Introduction to materials study
  • Begin investigations via model making, material usage
  • Final presentation

Readings

  • Tufte, Edward. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information . Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 2001. ISBN: 0961392142.
    Listed reading
  • Lockwood, Arthur. Diagrams: A Visual Survey of Graphs, Maps, Charts and Diagrams for the Graphic Designer . New York, NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1969. ISBN: 0289370302.
    Listed reading
  • Buy at MIT Press Kwinter, Sanford. Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN: 0262611813. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Dyson, Anna. “Recombinant Assemblies.” Architectural Design 72, no. 5 (2002): 62.
    Listed reading
  • Dyson, George. Baidarka: The Kayak . Portland, OR: Alaska Northwest Books, 1986. ISBN: 088240315X.
    Listed reading
  • Tsamis, Alexandros. Digital Graft: Towards a Non-Homogeneous Materiality . Cambridge, MA: MIT Master’s Thesis, 2004.
    Listed reading
Sources