for the break...

Dears

 Congratulations for this semester and for all the work produced at the end! 

 I truly enjoyed working with you! 

 And now i would like to make some recommendations for the break : 

 First of all, keep on (or start...) reading, more and more!! 

 Particularly, and to prepare for the 2nd semester  : 

 - this is an extensive list, i know, 

 but you can pick whatever attracts you! 

 and i particularly recommend what is in bold and with **** - 

architects:

Gordon Cullen, The Concise Townscape (1995)

Peter Eisenman, Diagram Diaries, Eisenman Inside Out: Selected Writings 1963-1988

A. Peter Fawcett, Architecture Design Notebook (2003)

Buckminster Fuller: An Auto-Biographical Monologue/Scenario, Robert Snyder (1980)  *****

Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York, A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (1978)  **

Gordon Matta-Clark, edited by Corinne Diserens, survey by Thomas Crow - London: Phaidon (2003) 

Frei Otto: complete works : lightweight construction, natural design / Winfried Nerdinger Birkhauser, 2005  ******

Bernard Tschumi, Architecture and Disjunctions: Collected Essays 1975-1990, The Manhattan Transcripts

Various, Dictionary of Design and Designers (2003)

Robert Venturi, Learning from Las Vegas (with Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour), Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

Rendow Yee, Architectural Drawing: A visual compendium of types and methods (2007)

theorists and art/architecture historians:

Architectures experimentales, 1950-2000: collection du FRAC Centre ****** / coordination generale, Marie-Ange Brayer -Orleans: Hyx, 2003   + see website here http://www.frac-centre.fr/public/collecti/ftcl01en.htm - look at the names of architects and artists and make your own research!

Reyner Banham, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1960); Design by Choice (1982); A Critic Writes (1999)

Beatriz Colomina ed., Sexuality and Space (1992) 

Colin Davies, High-tech architecture, (1988) 

Mike Davis, Beyond Blade Runner: Urban Control, The Ecology of Fear (1992), Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Working Class (2006), Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (2000)   *****

Robert Evans, The Projective Cast (2000)

EH Gombrich, The Uses of Images. Studies in the Social Function of Art and Visual Communication (1997)

Nikolaus Pevsner, The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design (1960)

Simon Sadler , Situationist city

Susan Sontag, On Photography (1977)

Various, Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (2002)

Anthony Vidler, Warped Space (2000)

Paul Virilio, Open Sky (1997)

Tom Wolfe, From our House to Bauhaus (1981)

philosophers:

Gaston Bachelard, Poetics of Space (1958) ****

Roland Barthes, The Fashion System (1967); Camera Lucida (1981), Empire of signs (1982) 

John Berger, Ways of Seeing (1972)

Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution (1910), Matter and Memory (1911) ***

Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (1967)
Manuel de Landa **

fiction writers:

Jorge Luis Borges, Fictions (and others) *********

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (2000)

Georges Perec, Species of Spaces (1974)  

Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows (1993)  *****

J.G. Ballard - science fiction novels

Philip K Dick - science fiction novels  **

scientists:

Katherine Harmon, Personal Maps and Other Maps of the Imagination (2003)

Edward Tufte, Envisaging Information (1990)

film-makers and photographers:

Robert Elwall, Building with light: international history of architectural photography - London: Merrell 

Fancois Truffaut, A Definitive Study of Hitchcock (1986)

Andreas Gursky: photographs from 1984 to the present / edited by Marie Luise Syring - Art Data, 1998 

Instant Light Tarkovsky Polaroids

Sergei Eisenstein, Montage and architecture 

If you like, i would also be happy to recommend films and filmmakers to you.

Continue checking out blogs... (list on the side!)

I will be back in January 
if you want to meet to get individual feedback on the semester and advice to go forward
again please let me know!

Have a delightful break !