readings

the following readings are in no particular order, aside from the order in which they are currently stacked next to my desk.


Edward Tufte : Envisioning Information

Venturi : Complexity and Contradiction

Plater-Zyberk + Jeff Speck + Andres Duany : Suburban Nation : The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

PRAXIS vol 6 : New Technologies ://New Architectures

Stan Allen : Points + Lines : Diagrams and Projects for the City

Pamphlet Archtiecture vol 27 : Tooling

Michel Foucault : The Archeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language

Hilde Heynen : Architecture and Modernity : A Critique

Tom Robbins : Skinny Legs and All

Cecil Balmond : Informal

Deleuze + Guattari : A Thousand Plateaus

OMA : SMLXL

Stan Allen : Practice : Architecture, Technique and Representation

Exit Utopia : Architectural Provocations 1956-1976

Rafael Moneo : Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies

FROM the OpPOSITIONS READER :
3. On Reading Heidegger : Kenneth Frampton
9. Post-Functionalism : Peter Eisenman
18. Monument/Memory and the Mortality of Architecture
39. Industrialization and the Crises in Architecture : Kenneth Frampton
105. Aldo Rossi : Thhe idea of Architecture and the Modena Cemetery : Rafael Moneo
188. Aspects of Modernism :Maison Domino and the Self-Referential Sign : Peter Eisenman
331. Design vs. Non-Design : Diana Agrest
355. Archtiecture and Transgression : Bernard Tschumi
365. The Beauty of Shadows : Jorge Silvetti
437. The Idea of Type : The Transformation of the Academic Ideal 17650-1830 : Anthony Vidler
579. The Architects' Ball - A Vignette : Rem Koolhaas

FROM ARCHITECTURE THEORY SINCE 1968 : Michael Hays
2. Towards a Critique of Architectural Ideology : Manfredo Tafuri
72. Introduction to Five Architects : Colin Rowe
214. The Architectural Paradox : Bernard Tschumi
296. Heterotopias and the History of Spaces : Georges Teyssot
306. Post Modern Architecture : Charles A. Jencks
362. The Status of Man and the Status of His Objects : Kenneth Frampton
428. Space Knowledge and Power : Michel Foucault (an interview with Paul Rabinow)
478. In Front of Lines that Leave Nothing Behind : Robin Evans
490. Architectural Design as a System of Research Programs : Stanford Anderson
588. La Citta Nuova :Modernity and Continuity : Stanford Kwinter
660. The Translation of Architecture, the Production of Babel : Mark Wigley


The rest of my books are in my trunk because they dont fit in my room - so Ill post more once I dig them out.

Enjoy.