Reading List

  • FOA, Code Remix 2000, 2G, No 16 Nexus (download PDF)
  • Manuel DeLanda, Material Elegance, Architectural Design: Elegance, vol. 77, issue 1, (January/February 2007), Wiley, 2007, p.18
  • Patrick Schumacher, Arguing for Elegance, Architectural Design: Elegance, vol. 77, issue 1, (January/February 2007), Wiley, 2007, p.28
  • Peter Zellner, De-Tooling , A+U: The New Ecologies in Los Angeles – Design and Technology (2008): 130-35. (download PDF)
  • Reiser + Umemoto, Atlas of Novel Tectonics, Princeton Architectural Press; 1 edition (December 31, 1899)
  • Patrick Schumacher, The Parametricist Manifesto
  • Benjamin Aranda, Christopher Lasch, Cecil Balmond, and Sanford Kwinter, Tooling (Pamphlet Architecture), Princeton Architectural Press; 1 edition (December 31, 2006)
  • Steven Vogel, Life in Moving Fluids: The physical biology of flow. Princeton University Press, 1994
  • Kostas Terzidis, Expressive Form
  • Kostas Terzidis, Algorithmic Architecture
  • Greg Lynn, Intricacy
  • Greg Lynn, Animate Form
  • Lars Spuybroek, Off the Road – 5 Speed, Contemporary Processes in Architecture, Architectural Design [ed. Ali Rahim], London, 2000, pp.56-61
  • Branko Kolarevic, Performative Architecture Beyond Instrumentality, (Spon Press, 2005)
  • Lars Spuybroek, NOX: Machining Architecture, London, Thames and Hudson, 2004, pp. 6-13, 114-127
  • D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form: The Complete Revised Edition
  • Gary William Flake, The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
  • Philip Ball, Pattern Formation in Nature, Oxford University Press 1999
  • James Suroweicki, The Wisdom of Crowds, Doubleday, London, 2004
  • Kevin Kelly, Out of Control
  • Deleuze Gilles, Guattari Felix, A Thousand Plateaus
  • Andre Chaszar, Blurring the Lines – Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing in Contemporary Architecture, Wiley, 2005


 

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DS13 is a graduate design studio at the University of Westminster in London. The studio is led by Andrei Martin and Andrew Yau.