The Difference is in the Detail, by Vitello, Willcocks “The form of these details (sounds, smells, textures etc) provides a clue as to how our…
Norberg-Schulz, Christian. “The phenomenon of place.” The urban design reader. Routledge, 2013. 292-304. In the Phenomenon of Place, Norberg-Schulz presents the concept of phenomenology to…
Norberg-Schulz discusses the relationship between character and space. Any real presence is intimately linked with a character. He repeatedly mentions the functional demand of different…
The idea of having a bottom down approach towards data collection is fascinating, and empowering. I think the ideas related to accessibility can be addressed…
Towards New Horizons in Architecture I related to the idea of a crystallization of thought rather than a reduction of quality, and I think it’s…
The bottom up approach that Speranza discusses is an approach that I would prefer to take. When studying the parameters that Speranza mentions, it connects…
Data Dimensions: Accessing urban Data and Making it Accessible, by MIT SENDEable Cities Lab This article goes into detail on decoding urban data sets, and…
The intro to The Phenomenon of Place was interesting because we saw the larger picture of this reading, emphasizing the concept of creating places of…
Toward New Horizon in Architecture by Tadao Ando explains the concept of critical action as being important and studying/analyzing the origins and essence of a…
“Being able to sense a city allows for consideration of the application of operating mechanisms at an urban scale, which actuate the city based on…