READINGS
Readings and Supplemental Bibliography
Required Readings
Week 1:
• Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker “Protocol, Control, and Networks” Grey Room 17
• Sanford Kwinter, “Hydraulic Vision”
Week 2:
• Giles Deleuze, “Postscript on Control Societies”
• Elizabeth Grosz, “Future, Cities, Architecture”
Week 3:
• Eugene Thacker, “Networks, Swarms, Multitudes” Part One | Part Two
• Manuel Delanda “Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture”
Week 4:
• Chris Anderson, “The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the scientific Method Obsolete”
• Manuel Delanda “Deleuze and the Genesis of Form”
Week 5:
Review. No Readings
Week 6:
• Jeff Hawkins, “The Future of Intelligence”
Week 7:
• Anthony Vidler “Towards a Theory of the Architecture Program”
• Jeffrey Kipnis, “Toward a New Architecture”
Week 8:
• Antoine Picon, “What has Happened to Territory?”
• David Gissen, “Architecture’s Geographic Turns”
Week 9:
• Elizabeth Grosz, “Embodied Utopias”
• Hilary Sample “BioMed City” in Verb Crisis
Week 10:
Midterm Review. No Readings
Week 11:
• George Jeronimidis, “Biodymanics” Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design
• Achim Menges, “Polymorphism” Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design
Recommended Readings
Eugene Thacker and Alexander Galloway, The Exploit: a Theory of Networks
Mark Buchanan, Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire
Matthew Fuller, Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture
Adam Greefield, Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
Matthew Fuller, Usman Haque Situated Technologies Pamphlets 2: Urban Versioning System 1.0
Jonah Lehrer, Proust was a Neuroscientist
Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Reyner Banham, The Architecture of the Well Tempered Environment
Reyner Banham, Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past
Larry Busbea, Topologies: The Urban Utopia in France, 1960-1970
Felicity Scott, Architecture or Techno-Utopia: Politics after Modernism
Stanley Matthews, From Agit-prop to Free Space: The Architecture of Cedric Price
Jonathan Hughes, Simon Sadler, Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture
Steven Johnson, Emergence
Sanford Kwinter, Architectures of Time
Michael Hensel, Space Reader: Heterogeneous Space in Architecture
Michel Foucault, Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College de France 1977-1978
Hakim Bey, T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone
Rita Raley, Tactical Media
John Urry, Mobilities
Peter Ludlow, Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias
Critical Art Ensemble, Digital Resistance
Critical Art Ensemble, The Molecular Invasion
Gargi Bhattacharyya, Traffick: The Illicit Movement of People and Things
Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat, An Atlas of Radical Cartography
Rosalind Williams, Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination
Julia Solis, New York Underground: The Anatomy of a City
John May, “On Technology Ecology, and Urbanism” in Verb Crisis
Steve Graham, Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition
Stan Allen and James Corner, “Urban Natures”
Bernard Tschumi and Irene Cheng, The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Achim Menges “Manufacturing Diversity” Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design
Michael Weinstock “Self Organisations and Material Constructions” Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design
Achim Menges, Michael Hensel, Morpho-Ecologies
Aranda/Lasch Tooling
Reiser+Umemoto, Atlas of Novel Tectonics
Vicente Guallart, GeoLogics: Geography, Bits and Architecture
Bentley Architectural Geometry
Paul Virilio, “The Overexposed City”
Saskia Sassen, “The Global City”
Keller Easterling, Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades
Saskia Sassen, Global Networks, Linked Cities
306090 06: Shifting Infrastructures (2004)
306090 08: Autonomous Urbanism (2005)
Rem Koolhaas, Mutations
Geoff Manaugh, BLDG Blog Book
Bruce Mau, et al, Massive Change
Kazys Varnelis, Networked Publics
Kazys Varnelis, Robert Sumrell, Blue Monday: Stories of Absurd Realities
William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle
Bruce Sterling, Shaping Things
Alex Steffen, ed. Worldchanging