Reading

Space & Politics, Urban:

Coleman, Nathaniel, Lefebvre for Architects, Abingdon, Routledge, 2015. Kofman, Eleonore, and Lebas, Elizabeth. (Eds.). Henri Lefebvre, Writings on Cities, Oxford, Blackwell, 1996. Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space, Oxford, Blackwell, 1991. Brenner, Neil. New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question, New York, OUP USA, 2019. Brenner, Neil, Marcuse, Peter, Mayer, Margrit. (eds). Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City, Abingdon, Routledge, 2011. Harvey, David. Social Justice and the City, London, Edward Arnold, 1973. Marcuse , Peter, Connolly, James, Novy, Johannes, and Olivo, Ingrid, Potter, Cuz, and Steil, Justin. (Eds.). Searching for the Just City: Debates in Urban Theory and Practice, Abingdon, Routledge, 2011. Marcuse, Peter., Madden, David. In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis, London, Verso, 2016. Ryan-Collins, Josh, and Macfarlane, Laurie. Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing, London, Zed, 2017. Smith, Neil. The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City, Abingdon, Routledge, 1996. Arendt, Hannah. 1958. The Human Condition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Space & Politics: Misc. Earth, Urban and Architecture:

Kaminer, Tahl. The Efficacy of Architecture: Political Contestation and Agency, Abingdon, Routledge, 2017. Angelil, Marc, and Siress, Cary. Terrestrial Tales: 100+ Takes on Earth, Berlin, Ruby Press, 2019. Colomina, Beatriz., Wigley, Mark. Are We Human?: The Archeology of Design, Zurich, Lars Muller, 2016. Spencer, Douglas. The Architecture of Neoliberalism: How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance, London, Bloomsbury, 2016. Aureli, Pierre Vittorio. The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Cambridge, MIT Press, 2011. Coleman, Nathaniel. Utopias and Architecture, Abingdon, Routledge, 2005. Ginzburg, Moisei. Dwelling: Five Years’ Work on the Problem of the Habitation, London, Ginzburg Design with Fontanka; 01 Edition (23 Nov. 2017) Leach, Neil. (ed.). Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory, Abingdon, Routledge, 1997. (particularly Jameson’s Is Space Political? and Leach’s Architecture or Revolution). Deamer, Peggy (ed). Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present, New York, Routledge, 2014. A+T, Issue 32, Autumn 2008, Hybrids II, Low-rise mixed-use buildings. Koolhaas, Rem., Mau, Bruce. S,M,L,XL, Rotterdam, 010 Publishers, 1995. Essays: “Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture” “Bigness, or the Problem of the Large”, What Ever Happened to Urbanism?. Project: “Surrender, Ville Melun-Sénart, France, 1987”. Koolhaas, Rem., Obrist, Hans Ulrich. Project Japan: Metabolism Talks, Cologne, Taschen GmbH, 2011. Fuller, Buckminster. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, Zurich, Lars Muller Publishers, 2008. Tafuri, Manfredo. 1976. Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development, translated by Barbara Luigia La Penta. Massachusetts: MIT Press.

Tectonic / Material:

Hartoonian, Gevork. Crisis of the Object: The Architecture of Theatricality, Abingdon, Routledge, 2006. Paredes Maldonado, Miguel. Ugly, Useless, Unstable Architectures: Phase Spaces and Generative Domains, Abingdon, Routledge, 2019. Cairns, Graham. Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics: Social and Cultural Tectonics in the 21st Century, Abingdon, Routledge, 2018. Boom, Irma. Rem Koolhaas. Elements of Architecture, Cologne, Taschen, 2018.

Economic:

Piketty, Thomas. 2014. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge / London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Papers

Kate Shaw (2015) “The intelligent woman’s guide to the urban question”, City, 19:6, 781-800, DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1090182 Michał Murawski & Jane Rendell, “The Social Condenser: A Century of Revolution Through Architecture”, 1917–2017, The Journal of Architecture, 22:3, 369-371, DOI: 10.1080/13602365.2017.1326680, 2017.

Websites:

SOCKS: a non-linear journey through distant territories of human imagination http://socks-studio.com/

Documentaries:

Curtis, Adam. 2011. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, Episode 1 (BBC Documentary).

Manifestos / Surveys:

Hertweck, Florian., Marot, Sébastien. The City in the City, Berlin: A Green Archipelago, Zurich, Lars Müller, 2013. Koolhaas, R., Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhatten, New York, Monacelli Press, 1994. Venturi, R., Scott Brown, D., Izenour, S., Learning from Las Vegas, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1972.

Graphical: Bunschoten, Raoul., Urban Flotsam: Stirring the City, Rotterdam, 010 Uitgeverij, 2000. Desimini, J., Waldheim, C., Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary, New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 2016. Atelier Bow-Wow (Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima). (2014). Atelier Bow-Wow - Graphic Anatomy 2. Toto. (and/or Graphic Anatomy 1).

“. . . EVERYTHING (‘PUBLIC FACILITIES’, BLOCKS OF FLATS, ‘ENVIRONMENTS FOR LIVING’) IS SEPARATED, ASSIGNED IN ISOLATED FASHION TO UNCONNECTED ‘SITES’ AND ‘TRACTS’; THE SPACES THEMSELVES ARE SPECIALIZED JUST AS OPERATIONS ARE IN THE SOCIAL AND TECHNICAL DIVISION OF LABOUR.”

Henri Lefebvre