# Readings

Table for Readings
LEC # | TOPICS | KEY DATES
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1 | Introduction |
2 | Megacities | Koolhaas, Rem. "Singapore Songlines: Portrait of a Potemkin Metropolis… or Thirty Years of Tabula Rasa." In S, M, L, XL. New York: The Monacelli Press, 1995. ISBN: 1885254865. Lee, Ching Kwan. "Factory Regimes of Chinese Capitalism; Different Cultural Logics in Labour Control." In Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism. Edited by Aihwa Ong and Donald Nonini. New York: Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 0415915430.
3 | Blobs, Curves and the Formless | Lynn, Greg. "Animate Form." In Animate Form. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999. ISBN: 1568980833. Krauss, Rosalind, and Yves-Alain Bois. Introduction - "The Use Value of the Formless," and Conclusion - "The Destiny of the Informe." In Formless: A User's Guide. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780942299434. Suggested Readings Foster, Hal. "Part 1: Architecture and Design." In Design and Crime. London: Verso, 2002.
4 | Theory Outtake 1 | Haraway, Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." In Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge, 1991. ISBN: 0415903874. Plant, Sadie. "Anna 1," "Gambling on the Future," "Binaries," "Supporting Evidence," "Genderquake," "Cultures," "Nets," "Digits," "Holes," "Cyborg Manifestoes," "Programming Language," "Shuttle Systems," and "Casting on." In Zeros + Ones. New York: Doubleday, 1997. ISBN: 0385482604.
5 | Bodies | Fuss, Diana, and Joel Sanders. "Bergasse 19: Inside Freud's Office." In Stud: Architectures of Masculinity. Edited by Joel Sanders. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. ISBN: 1568980760. Djebar, Assia. "Postface: Forbidden Gaze, Severed Sound." In Women of Algiers in Their Apartment. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1992. ISBN: 0813914027.
6 | CTRL [Space] | Keenan, Thomas. "Publicity and Indifference: Media, Surveillance, 'Humanitarian Intervention." In CTRL [Space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother. Edited by Thomas Y. Levin, Ursula Frohne, and Peter Weibel. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780262621656. Wodiczko, Krzysztof. "Designing for the City of Strangers." In Critical Vehicles: Writings, Projects, Interviews. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780262731225. Suggested Readings Manovich, Lev. "Modern Surveillance Machines: Perspective, Radar, 3-D Computer Graphics, and Computer Vision." In CTRL [Space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother. Edited by Thomas Y. Levin, Ursula Frohne, and Peter Weibel. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.
7 | Environmentalism | "Access to Tools." In The Original Whole Earth Catalogue, Special 30th Anniversary Issue. Edited by Stewart Brand, and Peter Warshall. Whole Earth, 1998. ISBN: 1892907054. Reinhold, Martin. "Environment, c. 1971." In Grey Room 14 (Winter 2004). Papanek, Victor. "Environmental Design: Pollution, Crowding, Ecology." Chapter 10 in Design for the Real World. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1984. ISBN: 0897331532.
8 | Architecture and Deconstruction | Derrida, Jacques. "Point de folie - Maintenant l'architecture." La Case Vide: La Villete (1985). Edited by Bernard Tschumi. Reprinted in Architecture Theory since 1968. Edited by by K. Michael Hays. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780262082617. Speaks, Michael. "Negotiating the Hypertext: Bernard Tschumi's La Villette." In Context and Modernity. Papers from the Delft International Working Seminar on Critical Regionalism, 12-15 June 1990. Suggested Readings Evans, Robin. "Persistent Breakage." In The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.
9 | The New York Five | Eisenman, Peter. "Aspects of Modernism: Maison Dom-ino and the Self-Referential Sign." In Oppositions Reader. Edited by K. Michael Hays. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998. ISBN: 1568981538. Rowe, Colin. Introduction to Five Architects. Reprinted in Architecture Theory since 1968. Edited by K. Michael Hays. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780262082617. Suggested Reading Rowe, Colin. "The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa." In The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982.
10 | First Interim Exam |
11 | Architecture and Post-Modernism | Jencks, Charles. "Part Three: Post-Modern Architecture." In The Language of Post-Modern Architecture. 6th ed. New York: Rizzoli, 1991. ISBN: 0847813592. Jameson, Fredric. "Postmodernism and Consumer Society." In The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Edited by Hal Foster. Seattle, WA: The Bay Press, 1983. ISBN: 094192002X. Huyssen, Andreas. "Mapping the Postmodern." In A Post-Modern Reader. Edited by Charles Jencks. London: Academy Editions, 1982. ISBN: 1854901079. Suggested Readings Habermas, Jürgen. "Modernism and Postmodernism Architecture." In Architecture Theory Since 1968. Edited by K. Michael Hays, 1981 reprint. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998, pp. 412-426. Baudrillard, Jean. "The Ecstasy of Communication." In The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Edited by Hal Foster. Seattle, WA: Bay Press, 1983.
12 | Kenneth Frampton and Critical Regionalism | Frampton, Kenneth. "Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance." In The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Edited by Hal Foster. Seattle, WA: Bay Press, 1983. ISBN: 094192002X. ———. "The Status of Man and his Objects." Reprinted in Architecture Theory since 1968. Edited by K. Michael Hays. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780262082617. Suggested Readings Lefaivre, Liane, and Alexander Tzonis. "Why Critical Regionalism Today?" In Architecture + Urbanism, May 1990.
13 | Modernisms Elsewhere | Fraser, Valerie. "Brazil." In Building The New World: Studies in the Modern Architecture of Latin America, 1930-1960. London: Verso, 2000. ISBN: 1859843077. Elleh, Nnamdi. "Architecture and Nationalism in Africa, 1945-1994." In The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994. Edited by Okwui Enwezor. New York: Prestel Verlag, 2001. ISBN: 3791325027. Suggested Readings Eleb, Monique: "An Alternative to Functionalist Universalism: Écochard, Candilis and ATBAT-Afrique." In Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture. Edited by Sarah Williams Goldhagen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780262072083. Serageldin, Ismail. "The Architecture of Empowerment: A Survey." In The Architecture of Empowerment. London: Academy Editions, 1997.
14 | Vernacularism | Rudofsky, Bernard. Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture. Albuquerque, NM: The University of New Mexico Press, 1988. ISBN: 0826310044. Rapoport, Amos. "Alternative Theories of House Form," and "Socio-cultural Factors and House Form." Chapter 2, and 3 in House Form and Culture. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969. ISBN: 0133956733.
15 | Critiques of Modernism | Alexander, Christopher. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. pp. 10-74. ISBN: 0195019199. Rowe, Colin, and Fred Koetter. Selections from Collage City. Reprinted in Architecture Theory since 1968. Edited by K. Michael Hays. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780262082617. Lynch, Kevin. "City Form," Chapter IV in The Image of the City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1960. ISBN: 9780262620017. Suggested Readings Jane Jacobs. Selections from Death and Life of American Cities. New York: Vintage Books, 1963. Chapters 6, 8, 13, 16.
16 | Theory Outtake 2 | McLuhan, Marshall and Lewis H. Lapham. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780262631594. Wiener, Norbert. Chapter I, "Cybernetics in History," and Chapter II, "Progress and Entropy." In The Human Use of Human Being: Cybernetics and Society. New York: Doubleday, 1954.
17 | Phenomenology and Place | Frampton, Kenneth. "On Heidegger." Oppositions 4, October 1974. Norberg-Schulz, Christian. "The Phenomenon of Place." In Architecture Association Quarterly 8, no. 4 (1976). Reprinted in Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture. Edited by Kate Nesbitt. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. ISBN: 156898054X. Suggested Readings Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture. New York: Rizzoli, 1980.
18 | Minimalism and Monumentality - Louis Kahn | Kahn, Louis. "Monumentality." In Architecture Culture 1943-1968. Edited by Joan Ockman with Edward Eigen. New York: Columbia Books of Architecture/Rizzoli, 1993. ISBN: 0847815226. Bonnefoi, Christian. "Louis Kahn and Minimalism." Oppositions 24, Spring 1981. Norberg-Schulz, Christian. "Kahn, Heidegger, and the Language of Architecture." Oppositions 18, Fall 1979. Suggested Readings Lobell, Mimi. "Kahn, Penn and the Philadelphia School." Oppositions 4, October 1974.
19 | Second Interim Exam |
20 | Voyages into the Surface - Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown | Venturi, Robert. Selections from Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1977. ISBN: 0870702815. Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour. "Theory of Ugly and Ordinary and Related and Contrary Theories." In Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1977, 1972. ISBN: 9780262220200. Suggested Readings Scott Brown, Denise. "Learning from Pop." In Casabella 35, no. 359-360 (December 1971).
21 | Aldo Rossi and the Archetypes of Memory | Rossi, Aldo. "The Structure of Urban Artifacts." Chapter 1 in The Architecture of the City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780954836610. Moneo, Rafael. "The Idea of Architecture and the Modena Cemetery." Oppositions 5. Reprinted in The Oppositions Reader. Edited by K. Michael Hays. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998. ISBN: 1568981538. Tafuri, Manfredo. "The 'Case' of Aldo Rossi." In History of Italian Architecture, 1944-1985. Translated by Jessica Levine. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780262200677. Suggested Readings Rossi, Aldo. "The Individuality of Urban Artifacts; Architecture." Chapter 3 in The Architecture of the City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780954836610.
22 | Manfredo Tafuri and the Venice School | Tafuri, Manfredo. "L'architecture dans le boudoir." In The Sphere and the Labyrinth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780262700399. Cohen, Jean-Louis. "The Italophiles at Work." Reprinted in Architecture Theory since 1968. Edited by K. Michael Hays. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780262082617. Suggested Readings Tafuri, Manfredo. "Architecture and its Double: Semiology and Formalism." In Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development. Translated by Barbara Luigia La Penta. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1979.
23 | Theory Outtake 3 | Foucault, Michel. "The Subject and Power," and "Space, Knowledge and Power." In Power Vol. 3 of the Essential Works of Focault, 1954-1984. Series Edited by Paul Rabinow. New York: The New Press, 2000. ISBN: 1565847091. Althusser, Louis. "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses." In Lenin and Philosophy. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1971. ISBN: 0902308122.
24 | Superstudio - Italy between First and Third Worlds | Lang, Peter, and William Menking. "Only Architecture Will Be Our Lives." In Superstudio: Life Without Objects. Edited by Peter Lang, and William Menking. Milan: Skira, 2003. ISBN: 8884915694. ———. "Suicidal Desires." In Superstudio: Life Without Objects. Edited by Peter Lang, William Menking. Milan: Skira, 2003. ISBN: 8884915694. Ambasz, Emilio, ed. "Counterdesign As Postulation." In Italy: The New Domestic Landscape: Achievements and Problems of Italian Design. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1972, pp. 223-265. ISBN: 0870703935.
25 | 1968 | Genevro, Rosalie. "Introduction." The Inflatable Moment : Pneumatics and Protest in '68. Edited by Marc Dessauce. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999. ISBN: 1568981767. Dessauce, Marc. "On Pneumatic Apparitions." In The Inflatable Moment: Pneumatics and Protest in '68. Edited by Marc Dessauce. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999. ISBN: 1568981767. Tschumi, Bernard, and Martin Pawley. "The Beaux-Arts Since '68." Architectural Design, July 1971.
26 | Traces on the City | Sadler, Simon. "Formulary for a New Urbanism: Rethinking the City." Chapter 2 in The Situationist City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780262193924. Wigley, Mark. "The Hyper-Architecture of Desire." In Constant's New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire. Rotterdam: Center for Contemporary Art, 1998. ISBN: 9064503435. Suggested Readings Violeau, Jean-Louis. "A Critique of Architecture: The Bitter Victory of the Situationist International." In Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture. Edited by Sarah Williams Goldhagen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780262072083.
27 | Technofantasy / Megastructure | Banham, Reyner. "Fun and Flexibility," and "Epilogue: The Meaning of Megastructure." Chapter 5 and Chapter 9 in Megastructures: Urban Futures of the Recent Past. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976. ISBN: 0500340684. Lopsinger, Mary Louise: "Cybernetic Theory and the Architecture of Performance - Cedric Price's Fun Palace." In Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture. Edited by Sarah Williams Goldhagen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780262072083.
28 | Late CIAM and the Architecture of the Welfare State | Smithson, Alison, ed. "CIAM/Team 10." Architectural Design. May 1960, pp. 175-207. Mumford, Eric. "From the 'Heart of the City' to the End of CIAM." In The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780262133647.
29 | Final Paper (4500 words) Due |