Two Main Sources: 1) Riley, Terence. On-site: New Architecture in Spain:Metropol Parasol . New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2006. 2) Koutamanis, Alexander. CumindCAD, "Modeling irregular and complex forms."2001. Accessed 08.04.2012. http://cumincad.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?_id=avocaad_2001_13&sort=DEFAULT&search=complex%20geometry&hits=1403 Supporting Sources: Design -Rashid, Hani and Couture, Lise Anne. Asymptote:Flux. London: Phaidon Press, 2002. -Ishii, Kazuo. Membrane Designs and Structures in the World. Japan: Shinkenchiku-sha, 1999. -Herwig O. Featherweights - Light, Mobile and Floating Architecture. New York: Prestel Publishing, 2003. -Db, Ridhika. DesignBoom, "Zaha Hadid: Chengdu Contemporary Art Centre."2010. Accessed 11.04.2012. -Chiarella, Mauro. CumindCAD, "Geometry & Architecture: Nurbs, Design and Construction"2004. Accessed 11.04.2012 Complex Geometry -Gregory, Paola. New Scapes - Territories of Complexity, Switzerland: Birkhauser, 2003. -Curland, Scott. CumindCAD, "Modeling Designs with Shape Algebras and Formal Logic" 1996. Accessed 08.04.2012 -Abdelsalam, Mai. CumindCAD, "The Use of the Smart Geometry through Various Design Processes: Using the programming platform (parametric features) and generative components" 2009. Accessed 11.04.2012 -Liu, Yu-Tung. The HybGrid: From Form Generation to Form Adaptation . Taiwan: Birkhauser, 2003.
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1) Rashid, Hani and Couture, Lise Anne. Asymptote:Flux. London: Phaidon Press, 2002. The firm Asymptote draws inspiration from organic systems focusing on the "light, speed and traversing virtual boundaries" within the building system. This book is particularly useful to me as it contained a lot of inspiration I drew for assignment 1. 2) Ishii, Kazuo. Membrane Designs and Structures in the World. Japan: Shinkenchiku-sha, 1999. This book does studies on structures formed by the membrane pattern. I find the use of materials used in each different design or structure was pretty cool and how it relates quite well to the subject we are doing. 3) Herwig O. Featherweights - Light, Mobile and Floating Architecture. New York: Prestel Publishing, 2003. This book offers architects a new idea of architecture, an "exploration of lightness and movement" for future works. It covers a wide range of buildings such as Bruno Taut's glass house, Crystal Palace and the Millennium Dome and shows how with new materials within our grasp, we will be able to incorporate a sense of efficient flexibility and mobility in structures which is light and inflatable
3 Aspects of Technical Complex Geometry
1) Gregory, Paola. New Scapes - Territories of Complexity, Switzerland: Birkhauser, 2003. This book explores space with a combination of interactions and relationship with landscapes. Covering a range of different relationships between land and building, it should be viewed as a "place of the mind, a way of imagining reality".