Readings are on reserve in Simpson Library.

Selected Readings and Excerpts

A. Think

Hans Hollein, “Everything is Architecture”

Air / Luft, “Pneumatic Protest” and “Blow it Up! The world is round”

Marc Dessauce, “On Pneumatic Apparitions”

BlowUp, “Inflatable Solutions”

B. Make

Greg Lynn, “Blobs (or why Tectonics is Square and Topology is Groovy”

Lightness, “Win-Win Materials”, “Frozen Fabrics” and “Fill Her Up, Please!”

Thomas Herzog, “Pneumatic Structures”

Heino Engel, “Structure Systems”

C. Look

The Economist, “A Fuzzy Picture”

Nicolas Bourriaud, “How to Inhabit Global Culture (Aesthetics after MP3)”

NY Times, “Students and Teachers, from K to 12, Hit the Podcasts”

Paul Virilio, “The Vision Machine”

Frederic Jameson, “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism”