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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
Harvard 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. recommended by Alana Armstrong
Rafael Moneo: Theoretical Anxiety & Design Strategies. Contemporary Architects examined by Rafael Moneo on personal design theories & their design strategies.
Productivity Tools
EcoDistricts
Publications: Framework, Making Ecodistricts and pilot ecodistrict reports are particularly recommended
Hammarsby, Sweden. Detailed brochure explains context, development and technical aspects of a sustainable city.
Urban Design
Urban Design Studio, City of Portland. See Design Central City, Area Design Guidelines
Duany, Andres, Jeff Speck, and Mike Lydon. The Smart Growth Manual. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010.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 – recommended by Nick Byers- 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/