• Davidson, Charlie. Charlie-davidson.com. 28 April 2011 <www.charlie-davidson.com>.

Mr. Davidson has explored many different furniture design projects.  Among his many interests he has been most attached to designing  seats, tables, and luminaries.  In his designs he explores forms that promote texture and materials that highlight weight and color.   Within the luminaries that Mr. Davidson has designed there is a reoccurring theme of an explosion.   Four projects that explore the theme of explosion through layers of light, shadow, and color are IRIS2, RUFF, Monster, & Black Light.  Each design utilizes a technique where the outer shell of the luminaries is opaque and the light emanates from within.  He selective creates varying patterns of opaqueness for which the light to pass around.  On the reverse side of the opaque shell’s are vibrant colors that light reflects, again passed the dark opaque shell, to the viewer.  His technique allows him to create varying experiences depending on the combination of transparency and color the luminaries encompass.

• Stattmann, Petra Schmidt & Nicola. Unfolded. Basel: Birkhauser Verlag AG, 2009.

Unfolded is collections of artist that have used paper for various design projects.  The authors intention is reintroduce a common material back into the world of  design, and re explore its properties that make it unique.

• Indexhibit. Kimiis.28 April 2011 <www.kimiis.ca>.

Kimiis is a design firm of architects, engineers and designers.  There firm is multidisciplinary but focus on digital fabrication.   Bright idea, one of their installation, was on display at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.  The installation was multimedia experience where the digital fabricated screen separated the user from the crowd to achieve a unique experience.  Aside from the multimedia aspect of the installation, the digital fabricated wood ribs evoke a compelling array of light and shadow that becomes more pronounce from the artificial colored light.

• Wang, Hongbiao. Hongbiao Wang | Won Ju lim’s work. 28 April 2011 <hongbiao-roxanne.blogspot.com/2008/03/architectural-forms.html>.

Won Ju Lim is sculpture in Los Angeles.  Her luminarie installation are interesting because they not only incorporate architectural forms, but they rely on the use of colored acrilic material to bounce and reflect light throughout the geometric forms.  The effect produces intriguing gradient of reflected and bounce color lite from underneath.

• Art, San Francisco Museum of. Take your Time: Olafur Eliasson. Ed. Madeleine Grynsztein. San Francisco / New York & London: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / Thames & Hudson, 2007.

I have not yet received all of my sources, but this is more or less where I am at regarding the bibliography.

Annotated Bibliography:

Structure in Nature is a Strategy for Design, Peter Pearce.

Published in 1980 by MIT Press, this book demonstrates and explains a number of naturally occurring structural patterns. Through images and narratives the author demonstrates the advantages of such patterns such as material efficiency, modularity, adaptability, and their ability to function across scales. There is also some discussion of how these patterns have been adapted to architecture work which is particularly of interest to me.

The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature, Phillip Ball.

Heavy on both technical information and photographs this book explains a wide range of patterns found in the natural world by examining their forms in relation to the physical forces which lead to their creation. This text was first published in 2001 by Oxford University Press. I have not yet received this book, but I am also hoping that there might be some discussion of coral formation since I plan to base my final project on these patterns. Even if there is not I think the book will help me draw parallels in my studio project between the forces which shape natural patterns and the forces which are contributing to the organically based form of my design.

Polyhedron Models, Magnus Wenninger.

Published by Cambridge Press in 1974 Wenninger’s book is the first practical guide to making polyhedral forms. The definition of polyhedral is a bit confusing to me, but I understand these forms to be 3 dimensional largely symmetrical structures which are composed of flat surfaces. I am interested in these forms as I find them quite beautiful and complex yet they are derived from what see to be fairly simple operations and repetitions. Polyhedron forms also can be found in natural structures, and I may end up using a polyhedron form in either my studio project or the final project for this class – though this seems less likely now than a week ago.

Continua: Architectural Screens and Walls, Erwin Hauer.

I was very impressed with the images Nancy showed in class related to Erwin Hauer. While my understanding is that his patterns are largely based on his own design and the materials he works with, I certainly see his forms having a relationship with many of the natural patterns I have observed in my other resources and in my own observation. The elegant of his work is a great reminder of the power of clarity and the ability to isolate and edit an idea.

Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture, Kolarevic, Branko, and Kevin R. Klinger.

This book examines a number of architectural projects which utilize cutting edge technologies and materials to explore new spatial experiences and tectonics. I think I need to learn more about these technologies and how they have been used, or could be used, in order to start grounding my studio project. I am pretty much dedicated to making my final light and shadow project by hand but in order to relate it back to studio I need to start utilizing some of these digital fabrication tools or at least understanding them.