Assignment 2 - Resources

3 Aspects of Design:

Herwig O., Featherweights - Light, Mobile and Floating Architecture. New York: Prestel Publishing, 2003.

Architecture is traditionally seen as a heavy immobile unit. This book offers glimpses into future architecture which attempt to make structures light, nomadic, flexible and mobile. It discusses the five pioneers of light architecture. It provides many examples under subsections such as inflatable architecture, modern nomads and the use of computers in development of this field.

Lim J., Bio-Structural - Analogues in Architecture. Amsterdam: BIS Publishers, 2009.

Outlines technilogical, representational and associative thinking. After discussing Experimental Design Studio it goes on to give a wide array of examples of structures taken from bilogical systems. These may be iterated by the behavioural contexts and the morphological. The examples document the thinking and testing processed involved in such design.

Ed. Ishii K., Membrane Designs And Structures. Japan: Shinkenchiku-sha, 1999.

This book has plenty of pictures and a discussion on membrane structures which can be found around the world. Originally they were known as tent structures but the tent or membrane has now become extremely sophisticated. They create light, bright, variegated spaces.

3 Technical Aspects of Design:

Martienssen H., The Shapes of Structure, Heather Martienssen. London: Oxford University Press, 1976.

This book discussed the art of architecture and then goes through the role of the architect as artist and engineer and the role of engineer as artist. It then discusses architectural character under the guise of series of building types analysing the architectural range. It covers The Cave And The Crystal, Tunnel And Tube, The Post And The Pit, The Box And The Cage, The Hive And The Honeycomb, The Cell And The Cluster, Scaffold And Skeleton, Bridges And Barricades, The Shell And The Spiral, Platform and Place. It then discusses aesthetics using these plans as the generator, it covers a series of historical buildings.

New Scapes - Territories of Complexity, Paola Gregory. Switzerland: Birkhauser, 2003.

This book attempts to show space as a combination of relationships and interactions. The landscape should be viewed as "a place of the mind, a way of imagining reality". It covers landscapes, field-scapes, eco-scapes, hypermedia-scapes. Ed. Spiller N., Reflexive Architecture.

London: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

Reflexive architecture is that which is extremely responsive and intelligent and has the ability to translate and connect to it contextural and environmental surroundings. It discusses various examples of that, from buldings to racecourses, landscapes to furniture.

Drew P., Tensile Architecture. Colorado: Westview Press Inc, 1979.

This covers a history of traditional tented structures, suspension bidges and the move onto modern tensile architecture. Their flexibility, adaptability to environment and effectiveness.