Reading Packets

Geography of Capital

  • Burnham, Daniel; Bennett, Edward,  Plan of Chicago, Commercial Club, Chicago, 1909.
  • Cronon, William, Mapping Capital, Nature’s Metropolis, New York, Norton 1991, pp. 263-269.
  • Moody, Walter, Chicago Plan Commission, Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago, 1915.
  • Pattison, James, ‘The Chicago Plan’ to make Chicago Beautiful, Fine Arts Journal, Vol 29, Chicago, 1913.
  • United States Congress of the Confederation, Land Ordinance of 1785.
    Whiting, Sarah, Superblockism: Chicago’s Elastic Grid, Shaping the City, Routledge, NY, 2013, pp-70-86
  • Olmsted, Frederick Law, Parks and City Planning, 1870.

Constructing the World


Ontological Practices

  • Brown Bill, Thing Theory, Things (A Critical Theory Book), The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2004, pp. 1-22.
  • Morton, Timothy, ‘We have never been displaced,” originally published in Olafur Eliasson, Reality Machines, Stockholm, 2015, p. 113-115.
  • Olmsted, Frederick Law, A Consideration of the Justifying Value of a Public Park, 1881.

  • Haraway, Donna, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs People and Significant Otherness (excerpts), Prickly Paradigm Press, Chicago.
  • Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics (excerpt), published in Whitechapel Documents, Participation, 160-171.
  • Olmsted, Frederick Law, Classic Park Plan, 1868.

Spatial Practices

  • deBord, Guy, Theory of the Derive, UbuWeb Papers, pp.1-6
  • DeCerteau, Michel, The Practice of Everyday Life, Walking in the City and Spatial Stories, University of California Press, Berkeley,  1984, pp. 91-110, 115-130.
  • Olmsted, Frederick Law, The Concept of the Park Way, 1868.

Historical Space

  • Aurelli, Pier Vittorio, The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Instuaration Urbis, pp.85-139.
  • Olmsted, Frederick Law, Parks in Europe and America, 1875.

Mental Ecologies

  • Guattari, Felix, The Three Ecologies, The Athalone Press, London, 2000, pp.27-69.
  • Gross, Elizabeth, Bodies-Cities, Sexuality and Space, Princeton Papers on Architecture, pp. 241-252.
  • Olmsted, Frederick Law, The Psychological Effect of Scenery, 1868.

Notions of Nature

  • Agamben, Giorgo, Umwelt and The Tick, The Open, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2004, pp. 39-48.
  • Descola, Phlilipe, Beyond Nature and Culture, Preface, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2013, pp. xv-xx.
  • Descola, Phlilipe, Conclusion, The Ecology of Others, Prickly Paradigm Press, Chicago, 2013, pp. 81-88.
  • Wallace Stegner, “Wilderness Letter,” Marking the Sparrow’s Fall: The Making of the American West, ed. Page Stegner (New York, 1998), 112.
  • Olmsted, Frederick Law, Pictorial Essay of Central Park, 1871.

Organization Space

  • Easterling, Keller, Introduction, Extrastatecraft, Verso, London, 2014.
  • Corner, James, Landscape Urbanism, The Landscape Imagination, Princeton Architectural Press, NY, pp.290-297.
  • Pope, Albert, Urban Implosion, Ladders, Princeton Architectural Press, New York 1996, pp. 54-97.
  • Waldheim, Charles, Landscape Urbanism Reader, Landscape as Urbanism, pp. 35-51
  • Olmsted, Frederick Law, Landscape Themes for a Park in Chicago, 1871.

Political Space

  • Foucault, Of Other Spaces, trans. French Journal of Architecture, March 1967.
  • Brooks, Gwendolyn, “Two Dedications,” Blacks, Third World Press, 1994, pp. 442-443.
  • Agamben, Georgo, What is an Apparatus?, Stanford University Press, Standford, 2009, pp. 1-24.
  • Olmsted, Frederick Law, Policing of Urban Parks1873.

Extended Bibliography

Architectural Drawing

  • Ackerman, James S. “The Conventions and Rhetoric of Architectural Drawing” in Conventions of Architectural Drawing: Representation and Misrepresentation. Harvard University Press, 2000, pp. 9-36.
  • Baltrusaitis, Jurgis, Anamorphic Art, New York: Abrams, 1977.
  • Booker, P.J. “Constructional Drawings: Sun-Dialling and Stone-Cutting”, “Ships and Forts: Water-lines and Figured Plans”, “Plans and Multi-view Drawings” in A History of Engineering Drawing. London: Chatto & Windus, 1963, pp. 37-78.
  • Cache, Bernard “Geometries of Phantasma” in Fast-Wood: A Brouillon Project, Wien: SpringerVerlag, 2007, pp. 46-61.
  • Carpo, Mario, The Alphabet and the Algorithm, Cambridge: MIT, 2011.
  • Carpo, Mario “Alberti’s Media Lab” in Perspective, Projections & Design ed. By Mario Carpo & Frederique Lemerle, New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 47-64.
  • Carpo, Mario, Perspective, Projections & Design, New York, Routledge, 2008.
  • Damish, Hubert, The Origin of Perspective MIT, 2000.
  • Evans, Robin “Architectural Projection” in Architecture and Its Image, edited by Eve Blau and Edward Kaufman, Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1989, pp. 134-139.
  • Evans, Robin “The Developed Surface: An Enquiry into the Brief Life of an Eighteenth-Century Drawing Technique” in Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays. Architectural Association Publications, 1997, pp. 195-232.
  • Evans, Robin, The Projective Cast. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995, pp. 179-239.
  • Evans, Robin. Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays. Architectural Association Publications, 1997, pp. 195-232.
  • Frascari, Marco, Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing, Routledge, NY, 2011.
  • Frascari, Marco, From Models to Drawings, Routeledge, 2007.
  • Guillerme, Jacques & Helene Verin “The Archaeology of the Section” in Perspecta 25 (1989), pp. 226-257.
  • Hildebrand, Adolf von “The Problem of Form in the Fine Arts” in Empathy, Form, & Space, Getty Research Institute, 1994, p. 228.
  • Hood, George J. “Auxiliary Views” in Geometry of Engineering Drawing, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958, pp. 26-49.
  • Latour, Bruno “Visualization & Cognition: Drawing Things Together” from www.bruno.latour.fr
  • Lefevre, Wolfgang “The Emergence of Combined Orthographic Projection” in Picturing Machines: 1400-1700, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004, pp. 209-244.
  • Lotz, Wolfgang. “The Rendering of the Interior” in Studies in Italian Renaissance Architecture, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1977, pp. 1-65.
  • McNaughton, Phoebe, Perspective and Other Optical Illusions, Wooden Books, 2007.

Texts: Transformations


  • Allen, Stanley “Constructing with Lines: On Projection” in Practice: architecture, technique and representation, G+B Arts, 2000, pp. 1-29.
  • Bois, Yve-Alain, “Metamorphosis of Axonometry” in Daidalos (Sept. 1981): pp. 41-58
  • Cohen, Preston Scott. “Stereotomic Permutations” in Contested Symmetries and Other Predicaments in Architecture, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001 pp. 96-103.
  • Crary, Jonathan “Modernity and the Problem of the Observer” in Techniques of the Observer, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992, pp. 1-25.
  • Deleuze, Gilles. “Frame and Shot, Framing and Cutting” in Cinema 1, trans. By Tomlinson & Habberjam, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986, pp. 12-28.
  • Douard, John “E.J. Marey’s Visual Rhetoric and the Graphic Decomposition of the Body” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, June 1995, Vol. 26 No.2, pp. 175-204.
  • Evans, Robin. “Drawn Stone” in The Projective Cast. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995, pp. 179-239.
  • Field, J.V. “Beyond the Ancients” in The Invention of Infinity, New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 178-206.
  • Gill, Robert W. Basic Perspective, London: Thames and Hudson, 1974
  • Kittler, Friedrich “Perspective and the Book” in Grey Room 5, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001, pp. 39-54.
  • Perez-Gomez, Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge, MIT, Cambridge, 2000.
  • Panofsky, Erwin, Perspective as Symbolic Form. New York: Zone Books, 1997.
  • Reichlin, Bruno. “Reflection- Interrelations Between Concept, Representation and Built Architecture.” Daidalos, 1983. pp. 60-73.
  • Scolari, Massimo “Elements for a History of Axonometry” in AD: The School of Venice. London: AD Editions Ltd. 1985, pp. 73-78.
  • Scolari, Massimo, Oblique Drawing, A History of Anti-Perspective, MIT, 2012.
  • Uddin,M. Saleh “Introduction” in Axonometric and oblique drawing. a 3-D construction, rendering and design guide. , McGraw-Hill, 1997, pp. 2-19.

Texts: Other Visualization Systems



Texts: Other


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