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    //// Recommended Readings & Books (all books can be found in the library)!

    Topic: Computational Thinking / Methods

    • Book: "Codify - Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture" : ...provides a series of essays that explore what it means to use, modify and create computational tools in a contemporary design environment. 
    • Journal: "The New Structuralism : Design, Engineering and Architectural Technology" - AD-Architectural Design (Wiley): ...Today the convergence of design, engineering and architectural technologies are breeding a new material practice in experimental architecture. In this pioneering publication, this important shift is fully defined as a highly dynamic synthesis of emerging principles of spatial, structural and material ordering integrated through the application of materialization and fabrication technologies. Providing the foundations for a new theory of structuring in architecture, The New Structuralism has broad implications for the way we both conceive and undertake architectural design, as its impact starts to emanate not only across education internationally, but also through architectural research and practice. 
    • Book: "Earth Moves": ... Bernard Cache's first major work, conceptualizes a series of architectural images as vehicles for two important developments. First, he offers a new understanding of the architectural image itself. Following Gilles Deleuze and Henri Bergson, he develops an account of the image that is nonrepresentational and constructive—images as constituents of a primary, image world, of which subjectivity itself is a special kind of image. Second, Cache redefines architecture beyond building proper to include cinematic, pictoral, and other framings. Complementary to this classification, Cache offers what is to date the only Deleuzean architectural development of the "fold," a form and concept that has become important over the last few years. For Cache, as for Deleuze, what is significant about the fold is that it provides a way to rethink the relationship between interior and exterior, between past and present, and between architecture and the urban.
    • Journal: "Field Conditions" - AD The Digital Turn in Architecture 1992 - 2012: ...This essay written by Stan Allen describes the state of perceptual but often invisible tension created by a system of physical spatial markers within the area where they are sited, or at times, well beyond. In architecture, Allen's ‘field conditions’ are meant to favour a mode of composition that transcends the long‐standing rift between classical and modern theories of form. The term ‘field conditions’ is a reassertion of architecture's contextual assignment. Field conditions moves from the one toward the many: from individuals to collectives, from objects to fields. A complete examination of the implications of field conditions in architecture would necessarily reflect the complex and dynamic behaviours of architecture's users and speculate on new methodologies to model programme and space. Field conditions and logistics of context reassert the potential of the whole, not bounded and complete, but capable of permutation.
    • Book: "Digital Materiality in Architecture": ...Fabio Gramazo and Matthias Kohler use the term digital materiality to describe an emergent transformation in the expression of architecture. Materiality is increasingly being enriched with digital characteristics, which substantially affects architecture's physis. Digital materiality evolves through the interplay between digital and material processes in design and construction. The synthesis of two seemingly distinct worlds - the digital and the material - generates new, self-evident realities. Data and material, programming and construction are interwoven. This synthesis is enabled by the techniques of digital fabrication, which allows the architect to control the manufacturing process through design data.


    Topic: Verticality

    • Book: "Green & Dense": ...The integration of nature in architecture is a key concern of sustainability. However, all too often sustainable design is reduced to improving the energetic performance of buildings and the ornamental application of natural green. Dense + Green explores new architectural typologies that emerge from the integration of green components such as sky terraces, vertical parks and green facades, in high-density buildings.The book describes green strategies in a comparison across different design tasks and climate conditions. In-depth case studies on the most relevant building types, consistently presented with analytical drawings made exclusively for this book, are complemented by expert essays that demonstrate the current paradigm shift in the sustainable urban environment. 
    • Book: "Dense and Green Building Typologies": ... In this book, architects and landscape architects provide insights into the design of dense and green building types in high-density urban contexts and discuss how these can support higher population densities, higher standards of environmental sustainability and enhanced liveability in future cities.

    Topic: Vertical Landscape


    Topic: Landscape Architecture / Urbanism

    • Book: "Responsive Landscapes - Strategies for Responsive Technologies in Landscape Architecture":...frames a comprehensive view of design projects using responsive technologies and their relationship to landscape and environmental space. Divided into six insightful sections, the book frames the projects through the terms; elucidate, compress, displace, connect, ambient, and modify to present and construct a pragmatic framework in which to approach the integration of responsive technologies into landscape architecture.
    • Book: "Ecological Urbanism":...While climate change, sustainable architecture and green technologies have become increasingly topical issues, concerns regarding the sustainability of the city are rarely addressed. The premise of Ecological Urbanism is that an ecological approach is urgently needed both as a remedial device for the contemporary city and an organizing principle for new cities. Ecological Urbanism, now in an updated edition with over forty new projects, considers the city using multiple instruments and with a worldview that is fluid in scale and disciplinary focus. Design provides the synthetic key to connecting ecology with an urbanism that is not in contradiction with its environment. .



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