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Design Theory for Computing

Readings

Week One: "Design Theory? Artificial Intelligence + Drawing"

readings for discussion
Aaron's Code, Meta-Art, Artificial Intelligence, and the Work of Harold Cohen,Pamela McCorduck, Freeman, New York 1991 chapter 1, The Painters Tale and 12, Beginning the Journey Back (pp. 3-9, 76-84)

Harold: A World Made of Drawings, Jonathan M. Cohen, John F. Hughes and Robert C. Zeleznik, Proceedings of NPAR (Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering), June 2000, ACM (pp. 83-89)

Week Two: "Elements of Styles"

readings for presentation
Frank Lloyd Wright, between principle and form, Paul Laseau and James Tice, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York 1992, Chapters I, Seeking an Understanding of Wright's Architecture & II, The Sources and Influences (pp. 1 - 25)

Classical Architecture, The Poetics of Order, Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre, MIT Press , Cambridge, 1986 Logos Opticos: The Logic of Composition and Taxis, the Framework(pp. 1-33)

additional readings
Portrait of an Artist as a Programmer, Al Stevens, Dr. Dobb's Journal, January, 1993

http://www.ercb.com/ddj/1993/ddj.9301.html

Computing Machinery and Intelligence, A. M. Turing, 1950

The Turing Test: A Coffeehouse Conversation, Douglas R. Hofstadter, 1981

- from The Mind's I, fantasies and reflections on self and soul, Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett, Bantam New Age Books1982 (pp. 53-95)

Week Three: "Design Thinking"

readings for discussion
The Design Studio, Donald Schon, RIBA Publications, London 1985 part III The Architectural Studio as a Source of Insight into Education for Reflection-in-Action (pp. 30 - 52)

Design in Mind, Bryan Lawson, Butterworth , Oxford, 1994 Introduction (pp. 1-7)

How Designers Think, Bryan Lawson, Butterworth , Oxford, 1998 Introduction (pp. 1-7)

Research in Design Thinking , Cross, N., K. Dorst, and N. Roozenburg, eds. Delft University Press: Delft, NL. 1992, Research in Design Thinking, Nigel Cross (pp. 3-10)

The Reasoning of Designers, Horst W. J. Rittel, Arbeitspapier zum International Congress on Planning and Design Theory in Boston, August 1987. Schriftenreihe des Instituts fuer Grundlagen der Planung, Universitaet Stuttgart 1988)

Week Four: "Form Making"

readings for discussion
Animate Form , Greg Lynn, RIBA Publications, London 1985 part III (pp. 30 - 52)

Digital Real: Blobmeister, Peter Cachola Schmal, Birkhauser, Basel, Switzerland 2001

What is blobmeister architecture about? http://www.a-matter.de/digital-real/eng/main.asp?es=1

additional readings
Structural Engineering in the Digital Workflow, by Harald Kloft http://www.a-matter.de/digital-real/eng/main.asp?es=4

Week Five: "Design Studies"

readings for discussion
On the Analysis of Intuitive Design Processes, Charles M. Eastman, in Emergining Methods in Environmental Design and Planning, Gary T Moore (ed), MIT Press,1968

Protocol Analysis, Chen-Tah Lin and Omer Akin, Cross, N., K. Dorst, and N. Roozenburg, eds. Delft University Press: Delft, NL. 1992

additional readings
New Directions in Design Cognition: Studies of Representation and Recall, Charles Eastman, in Design Thinking and Design Education, Chalres M. Eastman, W. Michael McCracken, Wendy C Newtetter (eds), 2000 (pp. 147 - 198)

Week Six: "Shape Grammars"

readings for discussion
Computing in Form and Meaning for Architecture, Shape Grammars, George Stiny, Journal of Architectural Education, London 1985 part III (pp. 30 - 52)

The Logic of Architecture , William J Mitchell, MIT Press (pp. 109 - 129)

additional readings
Possible Palladian Villa, plus a few instructively impossible ones George Hersey, Richard Freedman, MIT Press, 1992, (pp. 1-73, Palladio and Symmetry, PlanMaker)

Week Seven: "Architectural Study Drawings"

readings for discussion
Changes in the Role of Drawing in Design, in Architectural Study Drawings, Daniel Herbert, Van Norstand Reinhold, New York, 1993 (pp. 25 - 38)

Envisioning Architecture, an anlysis of drawings, Iain Fraser and Rod Henmi, Van Norstand Reinhold, New York, 1996, The Lessons of Drawing for Le Corbusier (pp. 1 - 21)

additional readings
Why Architects Draw, Edward Robbins, MIT Press, 1994 (pp. 52-54 Overview, pp. 103-124 Jorge Silvetti)

Week Eight: "Design Games"

readings for discussion
Concept, Design, Games, NJ Habraken, M. D. Gross, Design Studies 9(3):150-158.

Design and the Play InstinctA,Paul Rand, in Gyorgy Kepes: Education of Vision, Braziller, 1965 (156-174)

additional readings
Games of Architecture, Architectural Design, London, Academy Group Ltd., 1996 (pp. 39-64),