CCA Architecture

/ Fall 2007
/ Adj. Prof. Jordan Geiger
Intro / Course Description Projects
Links & Readings
General Requirements

 

Videography


Minority Report
Alphaville
Metropolis
Until the End of the World
Ocean’s Eleven
Charlie’s Angels
Man with a Movie Camera

 

Bibliography


Malcolm McCullough Digital Ground (NOTE: This book is a required text for the class)
James Corner* The Agency of Mapping
Paul Virilio* The Lost Dimension / The Overexposed City
Alison Sant* Redefining the Basemap
Lev Manovich* The Language of New Media
Michael Batty* Thinking about Cities as Spatial Events


Adam Greenfield Everyware
Manuel DeLanda A New Philosophy of Society
Philip Tabor Striking Home
William J. Mitchell City of Bits
William J. Mitchell Me++
Rem Koolhaas Mutations
Bill Moggridge Designing Interactions
M. Christine Boyer Cybercities
Michel de Certeau The Practice of Everyday Life
Sanford Kwinter Architectures of Time
Rebecca Solnit A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Oliver Grau Media Art Histories
Florence Lipsky The Grid on the Hills
Philipp Oswalt Shrinking Cities, Volume 2
Mike Davis City of Quartz (Fortress L.A.)
William Gibson Neuromancer
Lewis Mumford The City in History
Michael Sorkin Local Code
Bernard Tschumi The Manhattan Transcripts
Paul Virilio The Vision Machine
Nicholas Negroponte Being Digital
Peter Lunenfeld Snap To Grid
Dan Saffer Designing for Interaction
S. Doheny-Farina The Wired Neighborhood
William J. Mitchell Placing Words: Symbols, Space and the City
Howard Rheingold The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Brian Massumi Parables for the Virtual
Solnit & Schwartzenberg Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism
Mitchell Schwarzer Zoomscape
Bruce Mau Massive Change
Studio (n-1) Wild Wild Urbanism
William Whyte City: Rediscovering the Center


* denotes a reading found in the course reader

 

Links

The following is an evolving list of links relevant to the course subject matter.

Bay Model
http://www.spn.usace.army.mil/bmvc/

Security Video Links
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nQbVD5hlddk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fErpiId5cTk
http://homelandsecurity.org/snapshots/newsletter/2007-05.htm

UbiComp Definitions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquitous_computing
http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiHome.html

Howard Rheingold
http://www.socialtext.net/pmca/index.cgi?participatory_media_collective_action

Free Wifi Throughout San Francisco Fizzes Out
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/30/MNEJRRO70.DTL