Please list each reference in a category that would be of interest to others. After the author, title and publication information or source link, add your initials linked to a brief blog post that summarizes the major content and explains what you found useful. Zotero will generate bibliographic entries in MLA style.
Urban Design
Duany, Andres, Jeff Speck, and Mike Lydon. The Smart Growth Manual. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010. Print.This is a great book for a good rules of thumbs and a better understanding of city development. The short subsections make it real easy to breeze through but also make finding information on a certain topic quick.
click on the image to preview the book and possibly buy. Enjoy -NB- Krauel, Jacobo. Urban Spaces. Barcelona, Spain: LINKS, 2009. Print.KW
- Krier, Rob. Urban Space. London: Rizzoli, 1979. Print.KW
Material Studies
- Kinoshi, Miho. “an online exploration of LIGHT.FORM.” AA Intermediate Unit 3. Web. 5 Oct. 2010. NYC
Biomimetics
- Benyus, Janine, Biomimcry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, Harper Perennial, 2002. NYC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70ba1DByUmM&feature=player_embedded M.T.
asknature.org M.T.
http://biomimetic-architecture.com/ M.T.
Dollen, Dennis. “Digital-Biomimetic Architecture.” Arte, Arquitectura Y Sociedad Digital. By Lourdes Cirlot. [Barcelona]: Publicacions I Edicions [Universitat De Barcelona, 2007. 145-55. Print. M.T.
Swackhamer, Marc, and Blair Satterfield. “Houminn – OSWall – Oswall Formatted for Web1.jpg.” Houminn – Blog. 2009. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. MLM
Education
DesignShare. Web. 10 Jan. 2011. <http://www.designshare.com/>.- Nair, Prakash, Randall Fielding, and Jeffery A. Lackney. The Language of School Design: Design Patterns for 21st Century Schools. [Minneapolis, Minn.]: DesignShare, 2009. Print. KLA
- Louv, Richard. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-deficit Disorder. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin of Chapel Hill, 2008. Print. KLA
Landscape
Spirn, Anne Whiston. http://books.google.com/books?id=pRyh6iVkWj8C&Language of LandscapeYale University Press, 2000
Willamette Riverbank Design Notebook: A tool created by Green Works designed to foster creativity and innovation in developing an urban river’s edge that improves conditions for fish, wildlife, and people. This document has contains a wealth of information concerning conditions of the Willamette riverbank http://www.pdc.us/pdf/dev_serv/pubs/willamette_riverbank_design_notebook.pdf M.T.
Site Analysis Graphics
- Visual Examples of Site Analysis, Programming diagrams and Conceptual Models collected by Nancy Cheng
Infrastructure
“Infrastructural Ecologies: Principles for Post-Industrial Public Works.” Design Observer. Hilary Brown. 10.15.10 MLM
Resource Management
A Very promising website out of California that is basically a clearinghouse for water resource management information: http://www.whollyh2o.org/
Thesis
- Little Thesis from MIT Architecture… download the PDF of Volume 2 for lots of advice. It was initiated by Haruki Horiuchi, who got the Thesis Prize. See her blog.
- Thesis Prep Document Work in Progress by Dan Edleson-Stein in Eugene: Click on Portfolio > PIU > Thesis Draft
- Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Thesis Projects– catalog with Thesis Statements
Issuu pub of GSD’s year 2008-2009 (photo linked). Organized thematically: Form-processes, Geography-contested grounds, Invention-conditional utopias, Transformation-adaptive response, Authorship-open source, Practice- modes of practical knowledge. AA
Rafael Moneo: Theoretical Anxiety & Design Strategies. Contemporary Architects examined by Rafael Moneo on personal design theories & their design strategies. On my desk for two more weeks since someone’s recalled…AA