DRL: BEHAVIOUR: Examining the proto-systemic Theodore Spyropoulos, Ryan Dillon This reading list has been given to the library by the course tutor. Please note that the library holds as many items as possible from this list, however if any items are not held in the library s collection, these may be requested via Interlibrary loan on collections.aaschool.ac.uk. Some items may be shared with other programmes or located in other parts of the library. For location details please consult the online library catalogue. Session 1: Intro Thomas Kuhn, Scientific revolutions, in The Philosophy of Science, Richard Boyd, Philip Gasper, and J.D. Trout (eds.) (Cambridge, Mass.: 1991), pp. 139-157. Spyropoulos, Theo, Constructing Adaptive Ecologies: Towards a Behavioural Model in Architecture, in SAJ (Serbian Architectural Journal), Volume 5, No. 2, Architectural Education in the Post-Digital Age, 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Images: p. 160-169. (Available online: http://saj.rs/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/saj-2013-02-t-spyropoulos.pdf ) Spiller, Neil, (Ed.), Essays by Englebert, Licklider, in The Cyber Reader: Critical Writings for the Digital Era, Phaidon Press, 2002. Session 2: Architectural Machines Nicholas Negroponte, Soft Architecture Machines, MIT Press 1975. p. 6-49. John Frazer, Introduction: A natural model for architecture and Nature of the evolutionary model, in An evolutionary architecture (London. AA press, 1995), p. 9-21, 64-105. Johnston, John, Cybernetics and the New Complexity of Machines, p. 27-62 in The Allure of the Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New A.I., The MIT Press, 2008. Branko Kolarevic, Towards the Performative in Architecture, in Performative Architecture Beyond Instrumentality, (Spon Press, 2005 ), p. 204-214. Ali Malkawi, Performance Simulation: Research and Tools, Performative Architecture Beyond Instrumentality, (Spoon Press, 2005 ), pp.85-96 Michael Speaks, Design Intelligence, in Latent Utopias: Experiments within Contemporary Architecture (Graz, 2002), pp.73-76.
Kelly, Kevin, What ever happened to Cybernetics, in Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World, Basic Books, 1995. Session 3: Gordon Pask and Cedric Price Gordon Pask, A Comment, a case history, a plan, in Cybernetics, Art and Ideas, Studio Vista (London), 1971, p. 76 99. Haque, Usman, The architectural relevance of Gordon Pask, in 4d Social Interactive Design Environments, Wiley & Sons, 2007, p. 54-61. Andrew Pickering, Gordon Pask in The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches in Another Future, The University of Chicago Press, 2010, p. 309-371. Mathews, Stanley, Joan Littlewood: From Agit-Prop to the Fun Palace, in From Agit-Prop to Free Space: The Architecture of Cedric Price, Black Dog Publishing, 2007, p. 44-63. Mathews, Stanley, The Fun Palace: What Went Wrong, in From Agit-Prop to Free Space: The Architecture of Cedric Price, Black Dog Publishing, 2007, p. 170-191. Spiller, Neil, (Ed.), Essays by Pask, Weiner, in The Cyber Reader: Critical Writings for the Digital Era, Phaidon Press, 2002. Cedric Price, Cedric Price: Works II, Architectural Association, 1984 republished as Cedric Price: The Square Book, Wiley-Academy, London 2003. p. 8-15. Stanley Mathews, The Fun Palace as Virtual Architecture: Cedric Price and the Practices of Indeterminacy, Journal of Architectural Education, 2006, p. 39-48 [PRINT OUT] Mathews, Stanley, Potteries Thinkbelt, in From Agit-Prop to Free Space: The Architecture of Cedric Price, Black Dog Publishing, 2007, p. 192-293. Cedric Price, Gordon Pask, in Systems Research, 10, 1993, p. 165-66. [PRINT OUT] P. Cariani, To Evolve an Ear: Epistemological Implications of Gordon Pask s Electrochemical Devices, Systems Research, 10 (3), p.19-33, 1993. [PRINT OUT] Frazer J.H., The Cybernetics of Architecture: A Tribute to the Contribution of Gordon Pask, in Kybernetes, Vol. 20, No. 5/6 2001, p. 641 651. [PRINT OUT] Frazer J.H., The continuing relevance of the Generator, in Cedric Price Opera (ed. S. Hardingham), Wiley- Academy, June 2003, p. 046 048.
Session 4: John Frazer Evolutionary Architectures Frazer J.H., An Evolutionary Architecture, Architectural Association, London, 1995. Frazer J.H., Computing without Computers (ed. C.Moller), in Opening the Envelope Intelligent Urban Tools, Exploring Urban Strategies for the 21st Century, Groningen Workshop event, May 1995, p. 34 43. [PRINT OUT] Frazer J.H., The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics, Systems Research, Vol 10, No. 3, 1993, p. 43 48. [PRINT OUT] Frazer J.H., A Natural Model for Architecture/The Nature of the Evolutionary Model, chapter in Cyber Reader (ed. Neil Spiller), Phaidon 2002, p. 246 255. Frazer J.H., Action and Observation: The Groningen Experiment, in Problems of Action and Observation Conference, Amsterdam, Systemica, Vol 12, 1997, p.135 142. Frazer J.H., Creative Design and the Generative Evolutionary Paradigm (eds. P.J. Bentley and D.W Corne), in Creative Evolutionary Systems, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, UK, p. 253 274. Session 5: Grey Walter Robotic Life Andrew Pickering, Grey Walter in The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches in Another Future, The University of Chicago Press, 2010, Johnston, John, The New AI: Behaviour-Based Robotics, Autonomous Agents, and Artificial Evolution, in The Allure of the Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New A.I., The MIT Press, 2008, p. 337-384. Spiller, Neil, (Ed.), The Difference Engine_1991, essay by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, in The Cyber Reader: Critical Writings for the Digital Era, Phaidon Press, 2002, p. 133-137. Spiller, Neil, (Ed.), Towards the Post Human_1995, essay by Stelarc, in The Cyber Reader: Critical Writings for the Digital Era, Phaidon Press, 2002, p. 262-269. Kelly, Kevin, What Color is a Chameleon on a Mirror, in Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World, Basic Books, 1995.
Session 6: Le Ricolais vs Otto Indestructible Ideas McCleary, Peter, Robert Le Ricolais Search for the Indestructible Idea, Lotus 99, p.102-129. [PRINT OUT] Rainer, Barthel, Natural Forms Architectural Forms in The Work of Frei Otto and his Team 1955-1976, 1978, p. 17-30. Otto, Frei, Finding Form: Towards an Architecture of the Minimal, Edition Axel Menges, 1996, p. 13-22. McCleary, Peter, Some Principles of Structure Exemplified, in the Work of R. Le Ricolais, Zodiac 22, October 1973, p.57-69. [PRINT OUT] Vreeland, Thomas, Robert Le Ricolais, in Architectural Design, October 1960, p. 412-416. Reiser, Jesse, The New Fineness, ASSEMBLAGE, VOL. 41: MIT Press 2001 p. 65. [PRINT OUT] Le Ricolais, Robert, Robert Le Ricolais: Structural Research 70-71, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in Zodiac no.22 (1973), pp.1-36. Sanford Kwinter, La Citta Nuova: Modernity and Continuity, in Zone 1/2 (New York, 1986), p. 88-89. Session 7: R. Buckminster Fuller Buckminster Fuller, An Autobiographical Monologue/Scenario, St. Martins Press, New York, 1980 Timothy M. Rohan, From Microcosm to Macrocosm: The Surface of Fuller and Sadao s US Pavilion at the Montreal Expo 67, in AD Surface Consciousness (John Wiley & Sons: 2003) p.50-56. Neder, Federico, Foreward by Mark Wigley in Fuller Houses: R. Buckminster Fuller s Dymaxion Dwellings and Other Domestic Adventures, Lars Muller Publishers, 2008, p. 11-21. Neder, Federico, Introduction in Fuller Houses: R. Buckminster Fuller s Dymaxion Dwellings and Other Domestic Adventures, Lars Muller Publishers, 2008, p. 23-31. Recommended Reading: Neder, Federico, Weightless Body in Fuller Houses: R. Buckminster Fuller s Dymaxion Dwellings and Other Domestic Adventures, Lars Muller Publishers, 2008, p. 88-121.
R. Buckminster Fuller, Krausse, Joachim, Lichtenstein, Claude, Your Private Sky - R. Buckminster Fuller: The Art of Design Science: Your Private Sky The Art of Design Science, Lars Muller Publishers, 1999. Session 8: Dieste vs Today Session 8: Dieste vs Today Dieste, Eladio, Writings in Eladio Dieste 1943-1996, Junta de Andalucia, 1997, p. 217-289. Burry, Mark, Between Intuition and Process: Parametric Design and Rapid Prototyping, in Architecture in the Digital Age Design and Manufacturing, Edited by Branko Kolarevic, Taylor and Francis, 2005, p. 147-162. Kwinter, Sanford, The Computational Fallacy, in AD Computational Design Thinking, Edited by Achim Menges and Sean Ahlquist, John Wiley & Sons, 2011, p. 211-215. Hansmeyer, Michael and Dillenburger Benjamin, Digital Grotesque Towards a Micro-Tectonic Architecture, in SAJ (Serbian Architectural Journal), Volume 5, No. 2, Architectural Education in the Post-Digital Age, 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Images: p. 194-201. [PRINT OUT] Brooks, Rodney A, We Are Special, in Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us, Vintage Books USA, Reprint edition, 2003, p. 148-171. Brooks, Rodney A, We Are Not Special, in Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us, Vintage Books USA, Reprint edition, 2003, p. 172-195. Recommended Reading: Cecil Balmond, Fractile, in Informal, Cecil Balmond and Januzzi Smith, Christian Brensing (ed.), (Munich, 2002), pp. 243-64