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reading list recommend! I'm either working my way through these books, or am looking out for them at used bookstores and for cheap. Some are just authors or subject matter that I'm trying to track down. Most of these readings have to do with the everyday spaces project. |
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general Alexander, Christopher et al. -- A Pattern Language Alexander, Christopher et al. -- The Timeless Way of Building Wright, Frank Lloyd -- The Natural House Pearman, Hugh -- Not Building: The Lure of Desolation Kunstler -- Road to Nowhere, Home From Nowhere Brand, Stuart -- How Buildings Learn mysticism, the idea of the house Bachelard, Gaston -- The Poetics of Space Harbison, Robert -- Eccentric Spaces (I'm struggling with this one) Nearing, Scott and Helen -- The Good Life history of form, inside and outside, lots about windows Venturi, Robert -- Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture process, form, drawing Evans, Robin -- Translations From Drawing to Building Evans, Robin -- The Projective Cast materials Siegfried Giedion -- analysis and tracing of the balloon frame structure Elliott, Cecil D. -- Technics and Architecture: The Development of Materials and Systems for Buildings kitchen -- ideal and function Van Rensselaer, Martha and Julia Rose -- Saving Steps (Cornell University home economics dept. pamphlet on kitchen efficiency, 1800s) Beecher, Catherine -- the kitchen as spiritual center of the home Cromley, Elizabeth -- architectural historian interested in kitchens Horwitz, Jamie (Jane?) -- environmental psychologist Brumberg, Joan Jacobs -- women, children, and family life german/Bauhaus research on kitchen efficiency perspectival control of space, spatial hierarchies, power asserted through space asymmetricality in plan ...obviously there will be more! |
If you have any recommendations for books that I should be looking at, especially along the lines of inquiry of the print series project, please get in touch! by any distant chance, can you help me find a copy of these books? 1) Translations From Drawing to Building 2) The Projective Cast by Robin Evans One of them is out of print and the other is super expensive. thank you! |