Bibliography
___General Bibliography
Main Readings – Introduction
Sterling, Bruce, “Shaping Things” (excerpts in dropbox)
Hayles, Katherine, “Preface” in “Nanoculture” (dropbox)
“Matter Matters”, Manuel Delanda, article series in Domus (recommended for 1st meet: 1, 5, 6, 8 13 ) (shared in Google Docs)
Other Introductory Suggested Readings
Stephen Johnson, “Emergence” (forthcoming in course reserve – see excerpt in dropbox)
Manuel Delanda, “Cities and Nations” in New Philosophy of Society (dropbox)
Manuel Delanda, “Virtual Environments and the Emergence of Synthetic Reason”
Reyner Banham, “Megastructures: Urban Futures of the Recent Past”
John R. and Margaret Gold, “OLYMPIC CITIES : CITY AGENDAS, PLANNING AND THE WORLD’S GAMES, 1896-2016”
Winny Maas and others, “NL28”
Simon Sadler, “Archigram: Architecture without Architecture”
Peter Lang and William Menking, “SuperStudio: Life without Objects”
Vernor Vinge, “An Excellent Affiliance” in “Rainbow’s End” (excerpt – dropbox)
Anthropocene Definition (wikipedia)
“The End of Theory: the data deluge makes the scientific method obsolete”
Saskia Sassen: “What Matters: Talking back to your Intelligent City”
Phillip Ball, “Made to Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century”
Kazys Varnelis, “The Rise of Network Culture” (dropbox)
Sanford Kwinter, “Soft Systems” (dropbox)
Peter Yeadon, “Small is Big” (dropbox)
Manuel Delanda, “The Limits of Simulation”, in AD magazine (dropbox)
Arjun Appadurai, “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” in “Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization” (dropbox)
Michael Batty, “Cities and Complexity” (excerpts in dropbox)
Usman Haque, “Hardspace, Softspace” (dropbox)
Ricky Burdett and others, “The Endless City”, “Living in the Endless City” (forthcoming in course reserve)
_Supporting Bibliography
Ubiquity, Locality and Economy
Weber, Samuel, “Displacing the Body” http://www.hydra.umn.edu/weber/displace.html
Carson, Anne, “Economy of the Unlost” (on gift economies)
Appadurai, Arjun, “Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational
Anthropology” (excerpt in dropbox)
Bataille, George, “The Accursed Share”
EASTERLING, Keller, “Enduring Innocence”, “Organization Space”
CACHE, Bernard, “Earth Moves”
Media Space, Networks, Privacy, Power
GALLOWAY, Alexander, “Protocol: How control exists after decentralization”, “Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture”
HUBLER, MASSUMI and other, “Interact or Die: there is drama in the networks”
AD on Collective Intelligence
Models and Space
FERNANDEZ-GALIANO, Luis, “Fire and memory”
Rheinhold, Martin, “Organizational Complex”
Batty, Michael, “Cities and Complexity”
Sterling, Bruce, “Shaping Things”
MAAS, Winny, “Space Fighter”
Novak, Marcos, “Transphysical City”, “Transarchitectures and Hypersurfaces” (articles)
AD (Architecture Design magazine) on “Digital Cities”, “Territory”,
(wikipedia)
Scenarios/Scenario Design
wiki: scenario target 2020, by BT futurology unit
Architecture Precedent
BANHAM, Reyner, “Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment”, “Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past”
MOMA edition, “The changing of the avant-garde”
WIGLEY, Mark, “Constant’s New Babylon”
PRICE, Cedric, “Opera”
DENNIS, CROMPTON, and others, “A guide to Archigram 1961-74”
Other Architecture references:
Media, Science and Culture
Kittler, Friedrich, “Optical Media”
KWINTER, Sanford, “Far from Equilibrium”
VIRILIO, Paul, “The Vision Machine”
AGAMBEN, Giorgio, “The Open: Men and Animal”
HAYLES, Katherine (ed.), “Nanoculture”
Programmable Matter/Meta-Materials/Nanotechnology vs Space:
CAPOLINO Filippo (ed.), “Theory and Phenomena of Metamaterials”
Transmaterial (see index for classification discussion purposes)
http://transmaterial.net/
http://www.materia.nl/
http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/
SASS, Stephen L., The Substance of Civilization
HUMANOIDS ROBOTIC GROUP, http://groups.csail.mit.edu/lbr/#humanoid
ADDINGTON, Michelle, SCHODEK, Daniel, “Smart Materials and Technologies”
McCarthy, William, “Hacking Matter”
GOODSELL, David, “Bionanotechnology: Lessons from Nature”
SMITH, David and Others, “Metamaterials: Theory, Design and Applications”
http://nanoarchitecture.net/resources
(check this for major list of resources)
http://www.nature.com/nnano/index.html
http://www.omnispace.org/my_weblog/art/index.html
http://www.opera2015.org/home.asp
http://pubs.acs.org/journal/nalefd
http://www.scientific.net/JNanoR
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13697021
http://people.ee.duke.edu/~drsmith/neg_ref_home.htm
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18731988
http://www.nanofuture2030.com/
http://www.azonano.com/Details.asp?ArticleID=1967
Distributed Robotics
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Nature&Computation, Biomimicry/Biomimetics/Bionic
FLAKE, Gary, “The Computational Beauty of Nature”
GOULD, James, and GOULD, Carol, “Animal Architects – Building and the Evolution of
Intelligence”
Kittler, Friedrich, “Optical Media”
INGRAHAM, Catherine, “Architecture, Animal, Human”
JOHNSON, Stephen, “Emergence”
BALL, Philip, “The Self-Made Tapestry”
BALL, Philip, “Branches”, “Flow”, “Shapes”
BALL, Philip, “Life’s Matrix: a biography of water”
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-3190
Science Fiction, Fiction
VINGE, Vernor, “Rainbow’s End”
STROSS, Charles, “Accelerando”
STEPHENSON, Neal, “Diamond Age”
STEPHENSON, Neal, “Snowcrash”
“La Tour” – Schuitten&Peters (graphic novel)
“L’Archiviste” – Schuitten&Peters (graphic novel)