Readings

* required

Diagramming
Allen, Stan: Points + Lines.
Ito, Toyo: “Diagram architecture”, in El Croquis, n.77, 1996, p. 18.
Envisioning Information, Edward Tufte
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte
The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture, ed. Manuel Gausa
Vidler, Antony: “Diagrams of Utopia,” in Daidalos, no. 74 (2000): 10-11.

Design standards and reference books
Architectural Graphic Standards, Ramsey and Sleeper (also avail. On CD ROM)
Detail in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, Virginia McLeod
Details in Modern Architecture, Volumes 1 and 2, Edward Ford
Details in Contemporary Architecture, Christine Killory
Time-saver Standards, Joseph DeChiara (multiple volumes and subjects)

Materials
Material ConneXion: The Global Resource of New and Innovative Materials for Architects, Artists and Designers
Transmaterial: A Catalog of Materials That Redefine our Physical Environment, Blaine Brownell

Structure
*Informal, Cecil Balmond

Museums
Gonzalez, Jennifer. Subject to Display: Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art
O’Doherty, Brian. Inside the white cube: the ideology of the gallery space
*Putnam, James. Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium.
Visual Display: Culture  Beyond Appearances, Ed. Lynne Cooke and Peter Wollen
Weschler, Lawrence. Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology.

Organization
Easterling, Keller: Organization Space.
Phylogenesis Foa’s Ark: Foreign Office Architects, ed. various.
Sejima, Kazuyo: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA Works 1995-2003.
Toyo Ito: Sendai Mediatheque (Case Series), ed. Ron Witte
van Berkel, Ben and Bos, Caroline (UN Studio): Move.

Diaspora
Bhabha, Homi. The Location of Culture
* Farrell, Laurie Ann. Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora