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Readings I


Required Readings
  • Davidson, Cynthia: Guy Nordenson, Chuck Hoberman, Mahadev Raman: Interview: Three Engineers (Sitting around Talking) Any: Architecture New York, v10, Anyone Corp, New York, NY (1995) 
  • Fox, Michael, Intro to “Interactive Architecture” Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.
  • Fox, Michael, Chapter 1  “Interactive Architecture” Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.
  • Fox, Michael, Chapter 5  “Interactive Architecture” Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.
  • Haque, Usman. “Architecture, Interactions, Systems.” AU: Arquitetura & Urbanismo 149 (August 2006)
  • Zuk, William: Kinetic Architecture. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York (1970)

Supplemental Readings

  • Chironis, Nicholas P.: Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook, McGraw Hill, (1996)
  • Chironis, Nicholas P.: Mechanisms, linkages, and mechanical controls. New York: McGraw-Hill, (1965)
  • Drew, Phillip: Frei Otto: Form and Structure, Westview Press, Boulder, Colo.  (1976)
  • Engel, Heinrich. Structure Systems. New York: Praeger, (1968)
  • Fox, Michael “Beyond Kinetic” in “Transportable Environments 2” ed. Robert Kronenburg, Joseph Lim and Wong Yunn Chii.  SPON Press, London ,UK. 2002.
  • Fox, Michael , Intelligent Kinetic Systems in Architecture", Chapter in MANSEE: “Managing Interactions for Intelligent Environments”, Dublin, Ireland; December 1999
  • Fox, Michael “Ephemeralization" OZ, Journal of Architecture, Published by the Kansas State University Department of Architecture, Spring 2001
  • Fuller, R., Buckminster: Synergetics. New York: Macmillan (1975)
  • Jones, Franklin Day: Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors, Industrial Press (1977)
  • Kronenburg, Robert: Portable Architecture, Architectural Press, Boston  (1996) (1991)
  • Kronenburg, Robert: Introduction: “Transportable environments: theory, context, design, and technology: papers from the International Conference on Portable Architecture, London, 1997, E & FN Spon, London  (1998)
  • Kronenburg, Robert: Houses in motion: the genesis, history and development of the portable building. St. Martin's Press (1995)
  • Kronenburg, Robert, Robert Kronenburg, Joseph Lim and Wong Yunn Chii.: “Transportable Environments 2”  SPON Press, London ,UK. May, 2003.
  • McMahon, Thomas A. and Bonner, John Tyler: On Size and Life. New York, Scientific American Library (1983)
  • Molian, Samuel: Mechanism design : an introductory text. New York : Cambridge University Press (1982)
  • Molinari, Luca: Santiago Calatrava. Skira, Milano. (1998)
  • Mollerup, Per,  Collapsible: The Genius of Space-Saving Design, Chronicle Books, (2002)
  • Robbin, Tony: Engineering a new architecture, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT (1996)
  • Thompson, d’Arcy: On Growth and Form, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, (1961)
  • Williams,  Robert: The Geometrical Foundation Of Natural Structure : A Source Book Of Design  (1979)
  • Zuk, William: New Technologies: New Architecture. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York (1999)