Monday, 19 August 2013

introduction / readings












reading list preliminary:

On architecture 
Steen Ejler Rasmussen: Experiencing Architecture X
Aldo Rossi: The Architecture of the City
Juhani Pallasmaa: The Eye of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses X                   
Steven Holl: Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of Architecture
      
On urban matter  

A.E.J Morris: History of Urban Form before the industrial revolution 
Camillo Sitte: The Birth of Modern City Planning +
                    City Planning According to Artistic Principles 

Simon Sadler: The situationist City
Kevin Lynch The Image of the City
Colin Rowe: Collage City     
Gordon Cullen: Concise townscape
 

On OuLiPo / creative foci /phenomenology          
Georges Perec:  An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
                        Species of Spaces
Italo Calvino: The invisible Cities
                    Mr. Palomar

Gaston Bachelard : The Poetics of Space
                    

Raymond Queneau: Exercises in Style
                    

All books available in the new BAS library
 















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