CCA Architecture/ Spring 2009

 

 

Intro / Course Description
Projects
Links & Readings
General Requirements

 

Bibliography: Reader Contents

Utility

Vitruvius, excerpts, The Ten Books on Architecture
Le Corbusier, excerpts, “Eyes that Do Not See” from Toward an Architecture
Reyner Banham, “Functionalism and Technology” from Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
Mario Gandelsonas, “NeoFunctionalism” from Oppositions: Reader
Peter Eisenman, “Post Functionalism” from Oppositions: Reader
Paul Virilio, “Military Space” from Bunker Archeology

Body

Malcolm McCullough, “Embodied Predispositions” from Digital Ground
William J. Mitchell, “Wireless Bipeds” from Me++
Georges Canguilhem, “Machine and Organism” from Zone 6: Incorporations
Alvin Toffler, “The Physical Dimension,” from Future Shock

Energy & Electronics

New York Times editorial, “Energy Inefficient”
Bruce Mau and the Institute without Boundaries, excerpt, “Energy” from Massive Change
Anthony Dunne, “Hertzian Space,” from Hertzian Tales
Marshall McLuhan, “Automation” from Understanding Media
JG Ballard, “The Subliminal Man”
Lucy Bullivant, “Smart Domestic Spaces” from Responsive Environments

 

Linkography
The following is a largely unedited list of references and compiled links that have amassed since the course's inception and throughout the term. Enjoy.

Substations & Electricity
http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?id=s0021822

http://www.pge.com/about/news/mediarelations/newsreleases/q4_2005/051018a.shtml
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/a/aldwych-holborn-branch_line/index.shtml
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM37QB
http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/ca/ca2500/ca2554/data/ca2554.pdf
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov07/5685
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/transformer-houses.html
http://www.thecjm.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&view=article&id=45
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:PG&E_Substation_J_(San_Francisco).jpg
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/462469/pge_completes_potrerohunters_point_transmission_line_in_san_francisco/index.html
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=255&np=1

Sparkfun sensors by price

just to feed your brain

pre nano machines

Some POV (Persistence of Vision)

general goodness

UCSB halodeck

silly haptic compas

alarm that tracks your rem sleep cycles

activist robots in public

ishowu

great list of things that have been spawned by openscource inventors with a lot of arduino represented

"Lizzie's Awesome Links"
www.architectradure.com/category/haptic/
crisp.cit.nih.gov/crisp/CRISP_LIB.getdoc?textkey=6999300&p_grant_num=&p_keywords=ubicomp.org/ubicomp2008/videos.shtml
www.hectorserrano.com/index2.php
www.waldemeyer.com/zune.html
www.frontdesign.se/newsupdate_JAPAN_TOKYO WONDER SITE_02.htm
www.sq.ro/spamarchitecture.php

 

The great unedited list of inspiration sources
http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/search?q=bartlett+student+film
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/how-tech-change.html
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/waste-towers.html
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/of-networks-grids-and-infrastructures.html
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/found-sound-city.html
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/ride-lightning.html
http://www.ece.gatech.edu/research/labs/bwn/substation/description.html
http://www.tallgeorge.com/Zimmer.htm
http://www.infomine.com/equipment/sellers/10Xinternational/10Xinternational.html
http://www.gorge.org/pylons/faq.shtml
http://electricsubstationsafety.com/photo4.html
http://psdtech.en.ecplaza.net/catalog.asp?DirectoryID=43183&CatalogID=666690
http://www.data-linc.com/schneider/sussexap.htm
http://www.powerworld.com/services/creation.asp
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/london/london_olympics_energy_centre.htm