Introduction to Design Inquiry

Coyne, R. “Computers, Metaphors, and Change.” Arq 1 (1995): 62-67.

Travers, M. D. “Metaphors and Models for Computation.” Chapter 2 in Programming with Agents: New Metaphors for Thinking about Computation. PhD dissertation, Media Arts and Sciences, MIT, 1996. (you can skim section 2.2.3)

Optional Readings

Habraken, N. J., M. Gross, et al. Concept Design Games. Book One: Developing . Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987, pp. 1-1 - 1-7, 2-1 - 2-15, 3-1 - 3-11.

———. Concept Design Games. Book Two: Playing . Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987, pp. 0-1 - 0-5, 2-1 - 2-10, 3-1 - 3-8.

Reddy, M. J. “The Conduit Metaphor: A Case of Frame Conflict in Our Language about Language.” In Metaphor and Thought . Edited by A. Ortony (1993). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979, pp. 165-201.

Wittgenstein, L. Preliminary Studies for the “Philosophical Investigations”: Generally Known as the Blue and Brown Books . New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1958, pp. vii-xvi, 77-89.

Nagakura, T. “Shape Recognition and Transformation” In Electronic Design Studio . Edited by Malcolm McCullough, William J. Mitchell, and Patrick Purcell. Cambridge: MIT Press, September 10, 1990, pp. 149-170. ISBN: 0262132540.

Schön, Donald A. Chapters 1-3 in Educating the Reflective Practitioner. Josey-Bass, February 1, 1990, pp. 1-79. ISBN: 1555422209.

Knight, T. W. “Shape Grammars in Education and Practice: History and Prospects.” International Journal of Design Computing 2, 1999-2000.

Schoenauer, M., and Z. Michalewicz. “Evolutionary Computation” Control and Cybernetics. Special Issue on Evolutionary Computation 26, no. 3 (1997): 307-338. [A good overview of the different branches of evolutionary computation. Skim the technical parts.]

O’Reilly, U., et. al. “Agent-GP: Agent-Based Genetic Programming for Design.” Paper Presented at the 2001 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference [GECCO]. July 7-11, 2001, San Francisco, California, USA.

Koza, J. R. “Survey of Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming.” In Proceedings of 1995 WESCON Conference . Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. 1995, pp. 589-594.

Stiny, G. “New Ways to Look at Things.” Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. Anniversary Issue, 1998, pp. 68-75.

Knight, T. W. “Shape Grammars.” In Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. Anniversary Issue, 1998, pp. 86-91.

Excerpt from Bamberger, J. S. “Developing Musical Structures: A Reflective Practicum.” MIT Faculty Newsletter 17, no. 1 (Sept/Oct, 2004). [Comments about the music fundamentals course Bamberger has taught at MIT for many years.]

Mitchell, W. J. “Roll Over Euclid: How Frank Gehry Designs Buildings.” In Frank Gehry, Architect . Edited by J. Fiona Ragheb. NY: Guggenheim Museum Publications, July 2003. ISBN: 0892072776.

Iovine, J. V. “Building a Bad Reputation.” New York Times, Sunday, August 8th, 2004.

Minsky, M. “Why People Think Computers Can’t.” AI Magazine 3, no. 4, (1982). [Reprinted in Technology Review , (Nov/Dec 1983), and in The Computer Culture , (Donnelly, Ed.) Associated University Presses, Cranbury NJ, 1985]

Purpose of Readings

Alexander, C. Notes on the Synthesis of Form . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994, pp. 73-95. ISBN: 0674627512.

Minsky, M. The Society of Mind . New York: Touchstone, 1985. ISBN: 0671657135. [Read sections 2.5, 13.3-5, 14.1, 15.10-11]

Maeda, J. Creative Code: Aesthetics + Computation . London: Thames & Hudson, 2004, pp. 112-115. ISBN: 0500285179.

Aranda, B. and C Lasch. Pamphlet Architecture 22: Tooling . Princeton Architectural Press, 2005. ISBN: 9781568985473.

Reddy, Michael. “The Conduit Metaphor - A Case of Frame Conflict in Our Language about Language.” Metaphor and Thought . Edited by Andrew Ortony. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

Lyford, Joseph. The Airtight Cage . New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1966. [‘Introduction’, ‘The Area’, ‘The Block’.] Jacobs, Jane. Death and Life of Great American Cities . New York, NY: Random House, 1961. [‘The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety’] Durrell, Lawrence. Spirit of Place . New York, NY: Dutton, 1969. [‘A Landmark Gone’, ‘Panic Springs’, ‘Delphi’] Mitchell, William. City of Bits . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. [Any substantial passage]

Goodman, Nelson. Ways of Worldmaking . Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Pub. Co., 1978. [‘Chapter 1’] Bordwell, David. Narration in the Fiction Film . Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. [‘The Viewer’s Activity’] Norman, Donald. The Design of Everyday Things . New York, NY: Doubleday, 1990. [‘The Psychopathology of Everyday Things’] Porter, William. “Notes on the inner logic of designing: Two thought-experiments.” Design Studies 9 , 3 (July 1988). Guildford, Surrey, England: IPC Science and Technology Press in co-operation with the Design Research Society.

Anderson, Stanford. “Public Institutions: Louis I. Kahn’s Reading of Volume Zero.” Journal of Architectural Education . September 1995. Washington, DC: Association of Collegiate School of Architecture. Ronner, Heinz. Louis I. Kahn - Complete Work 1935-74 . Basel: Birkhäuser, 1977. [‘Phillips Exeter Library’] Porter, William. “Re:Reading.” Places . Issue 12, 3. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Vidler, Anthony. “The Idea of Type: The Transformation of the Academic Ideal: 1750-1830.” Oppositions 8 (1977). New York, NY: Rizzoli. Argan, Giulio Carlo. “On the Typology of Architecture.” Architectural Design (1963). London: Standard Catalogue Co.. Moneo, Moneo, Raphael. “On Typology.” Oppositions 14 (1978). New York, NY: Rizzoli. De Quincy, Quatremere. “Type.” Oppositions 8 (1977). New York, NY: Rizzoli.

Habraken, John. Concept Design Games (Book 1) . Cambridge, MA: Dept. of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. [‘Introduction’, ‘Design as Game’, ‘Game Components’] Wittgenstein, Ludwig. The Blue and Brown Books . Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1958. [‘Preface’, ‘The Brown Book’, pp.77-89 ]

Mitchell, William. “Roll Over Euclid: How Frank Gehry Designs and Builds.” Frank Gehry, Architect . New York, NY: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2001.

Glassie, Henry. Passing the Time in Ballymenone . Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. [‘Home’] Lakoff, George. ‘The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor’ in Ortony. Metaphor and Thought . [Chapter 11] Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space . New York, NY: Orion Press, 1964. [Chapter 1] Anderson, Stanford. “Memory in Architecture.” Daidalos: Berlin Architectural Journal (December 1995). Berlin: Bertelsmann. Ackermann, Edith. “Perspective-taking and Object Construction.” Constructionism in Practice: Designing, Thinking, and Learning in a Digital World . Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996. Geertz, Clifford. Interpretation of Cultures . New York, NY: Basic Books, 1973. [‘Thick Description: Towards an Interpretation Theory of Culture’]

Meyer, Leonard. Emotion and Meaning in Music . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1956. [pp 1-42]