6 Sources For Assignment 2

3 Aspects of Design

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".

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
This article shows that computer-aided design systems now enable architects to be in full control of geometric aspects which mean that architecture can now be displayed and created with a wide range of geometric representation.

3) Curland, Scott. CumindCAD, "Modeling Designs with Shape Algebras and Formal Logic" 1996. Accessed 08.04.2012
http://cumincad.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?_id=7b57&sort=DEFAULT&search=%2b1996%20Fractal%20geometry%20in%20architecture%20and%20design&hits=478
This article describes the hierarchical model of the shape and it's relation to space and geometric construction, topology and logic.