Supermodernisme : L'Architecture à l'ère de la globalisation Hans Ibelings Hazan, 2003             Massive Change6 reviews Bruce Mau, Jennifer Leonard, ... Phaidon Press, 2004 For every dreamer.... + Massive change + An optomistic view of mankind's future + AWESOME             The First Moderns: The Architects of the Eighteenth Century Joseph Rykwert The MIT Press, 1983 The focus of this brilliant tour de force is the international intellectual discourse that began in the French academy between Blondel and Perrault and which Rykwert believes posed the first essential problems of modernism. His history covers the work and thought of Inigo Jones, Wren, Hawksmoor, Burlington, Kent, Hogarth, Piranesi, Lodoli, Winkelmann, and J. B. Fischer von Erlach.             Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years4 reviews Bruce Sterling Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003 Amazing! + A deep look into tomorrow. + Clever rundown to the ecological end Tomorrow Now is essentially a long and brilliant essay by Bruce Sterling, a noted science fiction writer and futurist covering some of his ideas of what the future may hold. Sterling very cleverly breaks the book into seven parts based upon a soliloquoy from Shakespeare covering the ages of man ...             Uncommon Ground: Architecture, Technology, and Topography David Leatherbarrow The MIT Press, 2002 Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In Uncommon Ground , David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960, when utopian ideas about the role of technology in building gave way to an awareness of its disruptive impact on cities and culture. He examines the work of three architects, ...             Theory and Design in the First Machine Age1 review Reyner Banham The MIT Press, 1980 Insightful and well-presented study of Modern Architecture This book has held up well over time, as Banham explores Modern Architecture with a critical eye. First published in 1960, Theory and Design has had numerous editions but the themes remain the same. Banham looks at the major figures in European Modern Architecture through a series of penetrating ...             A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History16 reviews Manuel De Landa Zone Books, 2000 Prolegomena to any futurist sociophysics + If You've Been Reading Automatic History, Try Manuel + De Landa is my instructor now. + Very deep + A Thousand Re-Readings             Atlas of Novel Tectonics6 reviews Jesse Reiser Princeton Architectural Press, 2006 a rare exemplar of clarity in architectural writing + hook, line and sinker + valuable + The Sinews of Design             Crib Sheets: Notes on Contemporary Architectural Conversation Monacelli, 2005 Architectural discourse today is characterized by an overlapping conversation between architects and academics, teachers and students, theorists and practitioners. Certain terms -- "diagram, " "extreme form, " "autonomy, " and "the generic, " among others -- capture the moment in architecture in definition and in operation. Crib Sheets is a guide -- a "crib" -- to twenty-two of those buzzwords, ...             Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City10 reviews Stan Allen Princeton Architectural Press, 1999 potential energy + Forcing Form/Forming Force + Forcing Form/Forming Force + Enjoying in Singapore             Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan8 reviews Rem Koolhaas Monacelli, 1997 the culture of congestion + Brilliant despite some annoyances + What an interesting philosophical dissertation + best koolhaas ever, man             Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment1 review Reyner Banham University Of Chicago Press, 1984 An Excellent Book This is an excellent book. I read it in the early 1970's and it has to be a classic as it has stuck with me all this time. By suggesting that the mechanical and electrical apparatus of our modern dwellings is more important than decorative appearance it puts forward the seminal concepts that have ...             European Architecture 1750-1890 (Oxford History of Art)2 reviews Barry Bergdoll Oxford University Press, USA, 2000 History of architecture this book must be read with Modern Architecture by Oxford in order to understand the history of architecture. This book covers the must needed areas of the field including, the hut to Palladio, and others up until the rise of modernism, where incidently the book Modern Architecture takes over. I ...             Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World48 reviews Kevin Kelly Basic Books, 1995 Perhaps the most important book of the 90s + My all-time favorit book! + This Book Is Out of Control + Cyberpunk Fact             The Look of Architecture4 reviews Witold Rybczynski Oxford University Press, USA, 2003 Fabulous Book + Why archtitects hate the "s" word + A wonderful journey + Suprising             Modern Architecture (Oxford History of Art)5 reviews Alan Colquhoun Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 Succint, yet profound + Worth Purchasing + Modernism by Oxford + modernism retrospect + Modern Architecture             Fire and Memory: On Architecture and Energy (Writing Architecture)2 reviews Luis Fernández-Galiano The MIT Press, 2000 architecture must burn + Physical Architecture comes of age, finally! A very dense and stimulating read. One-third of the book is footnotes & references, so it takes a while to grasp just an entire paragraph. But if you like to be ultimately challenged, pick this book up. From caveman to modern man, this book explains how energy (Fire) has evolved through ...             Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory William Braham Routledge, 2006 This book is an essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment providing a convenient single source for all the key texts in the fast developing discipline of the philosophy of technology. The authors focus on the interplay between technology and society and consider the impact of technology on fields as diverse as: art and visual culture; politics, the ...             Ecological Architecture: A Critical History1 review James Steele Thames & Hudson, 2005 ugh! this book is often historicaly incorrect, misinformed, but committed to ecologicaly damaging projects like the destruction of the ballona wetlands and the construction of soviet era apartment blocks in place of the natural environment. he characterizes an open storm drain as an riparian corridor ...             ARCHITECTURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE: DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING3 reviews Taylor & Francis, 2005 Architectural Revolution by Information Revolution + Great book! + Great Compilation We all know that information revolution has totally transformed the society. Architecture is no exception. Relative to industrial revolution's impact on architecture, "what has this recent revolution done to the field?" is the basic inquiry to the book. This book diligently answers to the question. ...