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READING

Recommended readings for each and everyone of you...:


Pun 
Olafur Eliasson: Visionary Events, a text by Jonathan Crary
- Architecture from the outside: essays on virtual and real spaces by Elizabeth A. Grosz


Golfe
- New Geographies, text by Stefano Boeri (find it on his website, under TEXT-2008)
Animate form by Greg Lynn
Performative architecture, beyond instrumentality by Branko Kolarevic and Ali Malkawi


Ong
- XS: big ideas / small buildings by Phyllis Richardson and Lucas Dietrich (i will bring it to you on Friday)
- the work of the Team EXYZT
- the chapter Social space, collective space from the book Space and the architect by Herman Herztberger


Cherry
- Situationist International (if you want to realize the interesting political implications of a proposal such as yours), read Formulary for a new urbanismTheory of the derive and Introduction to a critique of urban geography
- Delirious New York: a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas is currently on the reserved self of the 2nd floor of the library (make a copy for yourself)


Fa
- books by Atelier Bow-Wow
- work of Yona Friedman + look at the FRAC Centre Collection (still under construction, but it will be an incredible database)
- Walls of change, an article by Lebbeus Woods


Ton
Philippe Rahm architects (really explore the projects, graphics and texts!)
- Minimal Art by Daniel Marzona and Uta Grosenick


Geng
- the work of the Team EXYZT
- the work of Patrick Bouchain
Space and the architect by Herman Herztberger


Eiab
- Thinking Course by Edward de Bono (reference of the great graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister) - a very helpful book for designers
Space and the architect by Herman Herztberger


Amy
Olafur Eliasson: Visionary Events, a text by Jonathan Crary
Thinking Course by Edward de Bono (reference of the great graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister) - a very helpful book for designers
- On Growth and Form by  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson + revisited
- essays by Anthony Vidler, such as Warped Space: Art, Architecture and Anxiety in Modern Culture


Best
- In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki 
Architecture in the digital age: design and manufacturing by Branko Kolarevic


Enn
Architecture in the digital age: design and manufacturing by Branko Kolarevic
Performative architecture, beyond instrumentality by Branko Kolarevic and Ali Malkawi


N
- Boiteaoutils' different posts, under the theme engineering
- Performative architecture, beyond instrumentality by Branko Kolarevic and Ali Malkawi


Shane
- cf. previous email about Zaha Hadid drawings
- From control to design: parametric/algorithmic architecture, published by ACTAR
- Architecture in the digital age: design and manufacturing by Branko Kolarevic
Animate form by Greg Lynn


Grace
- Gilles Clement,  From the Garden in Motion to the Third Landscape
- James Corner, the concept of Indeterminacy (you can go through this book: Recovering landscape: essays in contemporary landscape architecture and the article Landscape Strategy Now)
- Herzog & De Meuron: natrual history






A lot to read! 
You can look at your friends' recommendations as well. 
Take your time, give yourself chances to understand those texts. 
You are not expected to read them all at once.
Questions are welcomed!

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