DIY 3D printing in sugar!

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/candyfab

BodyWeather - Tess De Quincey co.

This group of dancers gave an improvisation performance on Saturday night at Carriageworks.  Bodyweather is a methodology of movement has been created by Tess De Quincey having its foundation based on the interelationship of the body with the landscape.   Having its conceptual origins coming from a mix of Butoh (Japanese Contemporary Dance) and other Western ideas of dance and movement, Bodyweather aims to enliven new sensorial experiences of the body in an environment. The workshops are very much located in a site-specific natural landscapes, where the body explores its own existence with natural land that it rests upon.
The improvised performance at Carriageworks was a fascinating investigation in responsive environments that we create as humans interacting with each other.It was an improvised sequence of movements defined by the methodology of body studies that these dancers train in. Rather than a choreographed sequence, this improvised performance kept each dancer in complete awareness of each other and their reaction/response was borne from an immediate spontaneous present. The dancers created the responsive environment between themselves, and in this case, the site-specific objects, surfaces and volume of the Carriageworks studio.
http://www.bodyweather.net/

http://bodyweatheramsterdam.blogspot.com

Other links on their blogspot:   http://www.bohemiaerosa.org/

Lace and textile translations into GC

A step in my process of learning GC is getting structures other than the cross-bar from the tutorial! One of the tools is to to create a feature, using polygon, and "by Lacing".  This concept of 'Lacing' as a structural tool, gives an immediate association to the traditional textile techniques of lace-making. Further associations include weaving, knitting, knotting... At the same time, I was aware of the Powerhouse Museum holding a competition on new ideas for lace. I investigated some samples at their Lace Centre and found some gorgeous pieces of 15th, 16th, 17th and onwards lace - from countries like Belgium, France and Italy.  The French mesh was my favourite!  Their collection continues to grow and incorporate all kinds of contemporary lace pieces.
I have subsequently found this tutorial online: it demonstrates what someone has been able to build in GC using the textile technique of weaving as the structural concept.  It would be a goal in the future to continue exploring this area of textile translations.


http://vimeo.com/5273901

Bike Frame Variations

Thinking about different structures to model other than the cross-bar in GC, I came across this nice piece of history in geometries and variations: from the Dutch - structural framework of bicycles. 

From 1901 De Kampioen 

rapid prototyping exhibition

http://australiandesignreview.com/news/16848-Rapid-prototyping-exhibition-debuts-in-Sydney

Generative Components group and workshops

http://www.smartgeometry.org/

Recent presenttion from Benedict Anderson - the breadth of his work covers dramaturgy, scenography, writings, architecture, dance performance and installations.

Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities

SEAM 2010 in Sept/Oct will include workshops for performance within interactive environments
http://www.criticalpath.org.au/

Experiment 3 - the moving body in Architectural space - digital video

I will make a short video piece that is a study in the moving body within the architectural space of a stair case. The video will study a repeat movement (a repeated form?), stairs as an anti-gravity strategy, anti-logic of movement, and how the body locates itself with physical parameters of the enclosed staircase.

Using points from the notation of "Queen Caroline" as the starting layout, this video documents the parametric tool of the length of line as being relative to the distance it is from a selected point. The file ends with all of the points being able to be moved around and having a realtionship to the length of one or two lines in the drawing.

Dance notation - forms using Law Curves

Architecture and Parametric Modeling -BIG

The architecture practice http://www.big.dk/and their use of paramteric modeling.
Some examples
Also a link to the video of the Denmark Pavilion at Expo 2010, China

idea for Experiment 3 - generative (word) form/body sounds

Experiment 3 approaches the idea of generative in terms of the body, and in terms of word and therefore sounds, made from the body. what is this language? How does a sound become a word? Through repetition, environment language develops. Looking at the work of the American performance/installation artist Bruce Nauman as a precedent, this experiment aims at using human voice, recording, and playing with digital techniques of edit, cut, repeat, distort to explore the idea of generative. using different volumes of space also becomes a variable in the production of the work

Documentation II- Modeling Lace form

Variations on Lace file

In this file I changed the numeric value of the radius fo the start point of the cone, and end point of the cone. The cone is laid across the surface of the object, fitting to a grid.

The Architecture of Variation: ed. Lars Spuybroek

The idea of 'type' is essential to the framework of Lars Spuybroek's theory.  It is through type that variations are manifested.  The research covered in the publication  'The Architecture of Variation' includes an essay from Mark Kirschner "Variations in Evolutionary Biology'.  The question of how form is generated in biology is of key relevance to my research. I will be using this discussion as the supporting literature for Experiment 2 - using the body scan images of the human skull of different humans as the source material for exploring generative forms defined by existing conditions of the human skull as type (differences measured are going to act as the parameters in building the file).

ARCHITECTURE OF CONTINUITY - Structure sourced from Lace-Making Techniques

The newest text from Lars Spuybroek, 'The Architecture of Coninuity" further developes his research and design in to new forms of architecture.

Experiment 1 (test) contd: Rapid prototyping * II

Okay, news back from 3D printer is that previous.stl file outputted by GC was readable and renderable, but the dimensions of the cross-ber members were too small for printing successfully. They were at around 1.5mm and the difficulty was that it was also a curved object. Solution: increase size of any members of a model to be at least 2mm
Alternative: There is a 3d Wax printing service offered at Palloys - a casting place using lost wax method for jewellers.
Alos part of the solution: putting .stl into 3D Max at final stage to ensure scaling is correct

The next file will be based on the dance notation images.Using parametric modeling, a number of variations of the form will be enabled from the one model.

Next Steps:

Research Parent-child relationships in parametric modeling - theoretical link to Plato's Ideals?

Structure + evolution in Biology  + Generative Form

Experiment 2 : Biology and Generation of Form

Mark Kirschner writes an essay in the publication "The Architecture of Variation" with a discussion on what modern biology has brought to the question of how form is generated in biology, and specifically how evolution takes place. A key backdrop to this discussion is how "Evolution is a question of generating structure".
I will be using this text as the theoretical idea behind using body-scan images for study of structure and other generative form sources from the body.

Vidler: "The Idea of Type"

Reference: Vidler, Anthony (1977). " The Idea of Type: The Transformation of the Academic Ideal, 1750 - 1830". Oppositions, 8, pp95 - 115

Associated Ideas -PLATONIC SOLIDS & geometries

Platos concepts also involved the 5 Platonic Solids in geometry.

Plato and the idea of TYPE -early notes

In his publication Design Thinking,  Peter G. Rowe discusses the conceptual tradition in Western Thinking of the idea of the "type". Formulated by Plato, it is a concept of there being 'one' and then 'the many' that are conceptually always related back to the 'one' that exists as a shared mental idea between human minds.

"The 'type idea' has exercised the minds of many in the Western philosophical tradition. From Plato's "ideas" to modern linguistic conceptions of a type as a shared mental object, the relationship of the "one and many" inherent in the type idea has been a subject for profound contemplation and impassioned dispute for centuries. A central issue concerns the ability of a type, which is one thing, to stand for or represent more than one thing. Our trees and their trees are all "tree".

In architecture today, type often stands at the centre of debate. It is widely recognised as fundamental to the formulation of significant and legible work, both for its "one and the many" properties and, by extension, for the sense of continuity of tradition that is offered.   According to the definition promulgated by the eighteenth century theorist Quatremere de Quincy, "the art of regular building is both of a pre-existing source,' and that pre-existing source is the idea of type."

From the 14th Century

gen - er - a - tive

Pronunciation: \ˈjen-rə-tiv, ˈje-nə-, -ˌrā-tiv\

Function: adjective

Date: 14th century

: having the power or function of generating, originating, producing, or reproducing

        

So, to 'generate' is the adjective that can describe both an original and a reproduction form
Ideas of repeat, multiplicity, numerous, singular, cloning as the outcome from the action


Why did the word originate in the 14th century?
 

gen·er·ate

Pronunciation: \ˈje-nə-ˌrāt\

Function: transitive verb

Inflected Form(s): gen·er·at·ed; gen·er·at·ing

Etymology: Latin generatus, past participle of generare, from gener-, genus descent, birth — more at kin

Date: 1509

1 : to bring into existence: as a : procreate, beget b : to originate by a vital, chemical, or physical process : produce
2 : to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind) Atlantic>
3 : to define or originate (as a mathematical or linguistic set or structure) by the application of one or more rules or operations; especially : to trace out (as a curve) by a moving point or trace out (as a surface) by a moving curve

Generative Design - what defines it?

Generative design describes a design method that is implemented in various design fields, and for the purpose of this research I will be mostly focusing on its use in Architecture and Art.   In essence, it is a method of design process what the output - the image, the sound, the architectural model, the animation - is generated by a set of rules or an Algorithm (normally by using a computer program).   It therefore offers a fast way of exploring design possibilities.

Typically generative design has

1. A design schema
2. A means of creating variations
3. A means of selecting desirable outcomes

In comparison to generative Art or cComputer Art which has been an output in this field in recent decades, Generative Design includes particular requirements that the design is informed with to be a successful contributor in the are of design, architecture or product design.  In architecture, generative Design is mainly applied for form -finding process and for the simulation of architectural structures.


The reason why generative design is becoming more and more important is largely due to new programming environments (Processing, VVVV, Quartz Composer, Open Frameworks,...) or scripting capabilities (Rhino scripting, Scriptographer ...) that have made it relatively easy – even for designers with little programming experience – to implement their ideas in this field.

Most generative design is based on parametric modeling, with some generative schemes using genetic algorithms to create variations. It is also the case that random numbers may be used.   In essence, Generative design has been inspired by natural design processes where by designs are developed as genetic variations through mutation and cross overs.  Mark Kirschners paper on Biology and Generative Form discusses this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_Design

Understanding Design Thinking

How has generative form informed design in history?

Generative processes can be said to have informed the design problem throughout the history of design thinking.  

USYD books

Author:  Peter G Rowe

Artists/New areas that generative forms inform

Introduction to Bobbin Lacemaking
Rosemary Shepherd
ISBN 0-9591235-1-2

Review of project direction

Colin Rowe : ' Design thinking"
Bill mitchel " Logic"

search word: "Generative Type"

ARCHITECTURE PRACTICES:
BIG in Denmark :-)
Diller + Scofidio

Write up BACKBRIEF
- Research Inquiry
- Operations - outline experiments - how they will happen, coast, who, time, +
- Methodology - (Simulation, real output, ..


Look at: ARTISTS who use it, ARCHITECTS who use it, HOW this type of process is used in different areas, WHAT IS THE HISTORY of this** (because it is there...)

Journals - search words: body & architecture

Tue May 4 0:01:27 EDT 2010

Search Words:      body ,   architecture


There were about 200 search results in the journals under these words.

Further search words to try:   Thresholds
Record 1 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Schwellenatalas: Von Abfallzerkleinerer bis Zeitmaschine.
SO: Source
   Arch plus, 2009 Mar., n.191-192, entire issue (134p.)
AB: Abstract
   Theme issue devoted to the question of of what changes the design and architectural significance of thresholds and how they are subject to    space and how to change perceptions of that space. The contributions    are arranged alphabetically. A glossary explains episodes of   technology and cultual history of 45 threshold elements like windows,  blinds, body scanners, garbage chutes, and plate glass.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Thresholds.; Space (Architecture) -- Theory.


Record 2 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Architecture from the inside out: from the body, the senses, the site
   and the community, 2nd edition, by Karen A. Franck and R. Bianca
   Lepori [book review].
AU: Author:    Popov, Lubomir.
SO: Source
   Architectural science review, 2009 Dec., v.51, n.4, p.413



Record 3

 DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   The body tectonic: anthropomorphism
AU: Author
   Hanekom, Leigh.
SO: Source
   Architecture South Africa: journal of the South African Institute of
   Architects, 2008 Sept.-Oct., p.70-73
AB: Abstract
   Reference to the human body in building is as old as architecture.
   Today, the advent of digital technology has opened new possibilities.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Architecture -- Human factors.; Anthropomorphism.; Digitization.






Record 4 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Uzorci materijalizacije = The samples of materizaliation [sic]
AU: Author
   Ednie-Brown, Pia.
SO: Source
   Oris, 2008, v.10, n.51, p.136-147
AB: Abstract
   Biothing, the body of work of American architect Alisa Andrasek.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Architects -- United States -- Andrasek, Alisa.; Computers and
   architecture.; Computer-aided design.; Andrasek, Alisa.



Record 5 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Sherry Huang: Dance the Walk, an exploration in body movement and
   architecture.
AU: Author
   Huang, Sherry.
SO: Source
   ARQ: la revue d'architecture, 2007 Nov., n.141, p.30-31
AB: Abstract
   Architectural student, Sherry Huang, works with the concept of
   choreography in architecture to design a meandering pedestrian
   pathway. Advisor: Alberto Perez-Gomez.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Pérez Gómez, Alberto, 1949-; Dance -- Influence.; Student projects
   -- Canada -- Montreal (Quebec) -- McGill University.



Record 6 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Hertzian space: material response to spatial presence
AU: Author
   Taylor, Mark.
SO: Source
   Architectural design, 2007 Sept-Oct., v.77, n.5, p.149-151
AB: Abstract
   Report on a student project at Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand, that aimed to generate space based on the dynamics of a full body massage.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Student projects -- New Zealand -- Wellington -- Victoria University
   of Wellington.; Space (Architecture) -- Student projects -- New
   Zealand -- Full Body Massage Suite.




Record 7 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Coming to our senses: architecture and the non-visual [book review]
AU: Author
   Benedikt, Michael.
SO: Source
   Harvard design magazine, 2007 Spring-Summer, n.26, p.83-91
AB: Abstract
   A review of five titles that "aim to bring architects closer to their senses, quite literally. Published from 2002 to 2007.
SA: Subject/Artist:     Architecture -- Human factors.; Senses.; Architecture -- Theory.;
   Urban design -- Theory.; Design -- Theory.; Space perception.;
   Architectural acoustics.; Space (Architecture) -- Psycological aspects.


Record 8 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Skin/weave/pattern
AU: Author
   Coates, Nigel, [1949-]
SO: Source
   Architectural design, 2006 Nov.-Dec., v.76, n.6, p.44-49
AB: Abstract
   The author "describes his ow experiments with textiles at Branson Coates Architecture and the Royal College of Art (RCA), in which they alternately become skin, weave and pattern operating at every scale
   from the individual body to the urban plan."
SA: Subject/Artist
   Textile fabrics.; Buildings -- Textile.; Folds.; Architectural design -- Theory.; Buildings -- Surfaces.; Building materials.; Facades.; Regional planning -- England -- London -- Thames Gateway.;  Installations (Exhibitions) -- England -- London -- Greenwich --  Millennium Dome -- Body Zone.; Branson Coates Architecture.; Coates,    Nigel, 1949-; Alsop, William, 1947-; Fashion Architecture Taste
   (Group).; AOC Architecture.; Royal College of Art (Great Britain).



Record 9 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   BIAS: it's a matter of listening and observing
AU: Author
   Stilling, Oliver.
SO: Source
   Arkitektur DK, 2006 Aug., v.50, n.5, p.364-369
AB: Abstract
   "BIAS ARKITEKTER (established 2004) is a young architectural practice whose architecture concerns the body's dialogue with space, regardless  of whether it's conceptual art or dialgoue based building projects."
SA: Subject/Artist
   Architects -- Denmark -- BIAS ARKITEKTER.; BIAS ARKITEKTER.




Record 10 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Choreographies in projected space
AU: Author
   Walker, Joanna.
SO: Source
   Scroope: Cambridge architectural journal, 2006 June, n.18, p.168-175
AB: Abstract
   Video installations that examine the fusion of media and architecture    through the production of alternative forms of screen space, language  and immersive environments in the context of navigable body-space.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Space (Architecture).; Installation works.




Record 11 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Body conscious [Bodymetrics scanning pod, London]
AU: Author
   Thompson, Henrietta.
SO: Source
   Blueprint (London, England), 2006 Feb., n.239, p.[61]-65
AB: Abstract
   "A new pod has just landed in Selfridges, which will scan your exact    measurements and make bespoke garments to fit. [The author] reports on how its architecture informed an entire brand identity for   bodymetrics." Architects: DLM Architectural Designers.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Pods (Architecture) -- England -- London -- Selfridges --
   Bodymetrics.; Dressing rooms -- England -- London -- Selfridges --
   Bodymetrics.; Scanners -- England -- London -- Selfridges --
   Bodymetrics.; Department stores -- Interior design -- England --
   London -- Selfridges -- Bodymetrics.; Corporate image -- Bodymetrics.;
   DLM Architectural Designers.; Domeison, Oliver J.




Record 12 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Esistenz minimissimum [Didier Fiusz Faustino]
AU: Author
   Midal, Alessandra.
SO: Source
   Domus, 2005 Sept., n.884, p.40-49
AB: Abstract
   On the border between architecture and conceptual art, Faustino creates spatial visions that take man's body as their elementary unit of measure.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Architects -- France -- Faustino, Didier Fiuza.; Faustino, Didier
   Fiuza, 1968-



Record 13 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   "Architecture au corps: entre la prothèse et le parasite" = ["Body
   architecture: between prothesis and parasite"]
AU: Author
   Teyssot, Georges, [1946-]
SO: Source
   Cahiers de la recherche architecturale et urbaine, 2005 Sept., n.17,  p.163-176
SA: Subject/Artist
   Anatomy.; Philosophy.; Architecture and technology.; Robotics.; Space
   (Architecture) -- Theory.








Record 14 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Tiempo: cuerpo y memoria, salones y recorridos = Time: body and
   memory, rooms and passageways
AU: Author
   Browne Covarrubias, Tomás.
SO: Source
   ARQ, 2005 Mar., n.59, p.11-13
SA: Subject/Artist
   Time.; Architecture -- Human factors.; Hallways.; Interior design.

Record 15 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Architecture de prothèse pour un corps post-humain = Extensions of
   the post-human body
AU: Author
   Teyssot, Georges, [1946-]
SO: Source
   Architecture d'aujourd'hui, 2004 Mar.-Apr., n.351, p.46-55
AB: Abstract
   Idea of architectural protheses reaching beyond the human to protect
   and shelter at the same time "abolishing old dichotomies between
   interior and exterior, private and public, organ and function." (p.52)
    Many examples, both old and new, are shown, including:
   Haus-Rucker-Co. "Mind expander," "Ballon für Zwei," David Greene
   "Living Pod," Michael Webb "Le Cushicle," etc.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Anatomy.; Space (Architecture) -- Theory.

Record 16 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Architettura effimera = Ephimeral architecture
AU: Author
   Nouvel, Jean, [1945-]
SO: Source
   Lotus international, 2004, n.122, p.[20]-21.
AB: Abstract
   Jean Nouvel has designed the stage sets for the dance performance Body
   / Work / Leisure, directed by Frédéric Flamand.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery -- Body / Work / Leisure.;
   Flamand, Frédéric.; Nouvel, Jean, 1945-

Record 17 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Centón de colecciones = Cluster of collections.
SO: Source
   AV monografías = AV monographs, 2003 Nov.-Dec., n.104, p.6-17
AB: Abstract
   Five very brief essays concerned with the relationship between the
   body and architecture.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Architecture -- Human factors.; Architecture -- Theory.

Record 18 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Architects' conceptions of the human body
AU: Author
   Imrie, Robert, [1958-]
SO: Source
   Environment and planning D, society & space, 2003 Feb., v.21, n.1,
   p.47-65
AB: Abstract
   The author contends "that architects rarely relate their design
   conceptions to the human body and its multiple forms of embodiment.
   Where the body is conceived of, it is usually in terms of a conception
   of the 'normal body', or a body characterised by geometrical
   proportions arranged around precise Cartesian dimensions."
SA: Subject/Artist
   Architecture -- Human factors.; Architecture -- Composition,
   proportion, etc.

Record 19 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Gone... yet strangely there: in the hills of Colorado a landscape
   architect is discovered [Bredo Morstoel]
AU: Author
   Gillette, Felix.
SO: Source
   Landscape architecture, 2003 Jan., v.93, n.1, p.24,26
AB: Abstract
   Landscape architect's frozen body, brought to United States by his
   grandson, a believer in cryogenics, is now a local tourist
   attraction.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Landscape architects -- Norway -- Morstoel, Bredo.; Morstoel, Bredo,
   d.1989.; Tourism -- United States -- Nederland (Colorado).

Record 20 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Body and building: essays on the changing relation of body and
   architecture [ed. by] George Dodds, Robert Tavernor [book review]
AU: Author
   Bekaert, Geert, [1928-]
SO: Source
   Archis, 2003, n.2, p.114-115
AB: Abstract
   Published: 2002. Published by: MIT Pr.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Architecture -- Human factors.; Anatomy.; Architecture -- Theory.

Record 21 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Vitruvius: writing the body architecture [by] Indra Kagis McEwen [book
   review]
AU: Author
   Gros, Pierre.
SO: Source
   Annali di architettura: rivista del centro internazionale di studi di
   architettura Andrea Palladio, 2003, n.15, p.264-265
AB: Abstract
   Publ. 2003.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Architectural literature -- Roman.

Record 22 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Measure, metre, irony: reuniting pure mathematics with architecture
AU: Author
   Tavernor, Robert.
SO: Source
   Arq: architectural research quarterly, 2002, v.6, n.1, p.67-[75]
AB: Abstract
   "The human body once provided the fundamental measurements by which to
   gauge human creations - but the metric system offers 'mere number
   without concrete being'." Features Le Corbusier's Modular.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Mathematics in architecture.; Architecture -- Composition, proportion,
   etc.; Measuring.; Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.

Record 23 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Incorporations: exploring the space between body, mechanism, and
   imagination
AU: Author
   Sung, Doris Kim.
SO: Source
   Journal of architectural education, 2001 May, v.54, n.4, p.260-263
AB: Abstract
   "Designed as a 'lock' to a private photographic journal, this project
   investigates the relationship of body to machine and, ultimately, body
   to imagination. The project speculates on a way of understanding this
   relationship in the phenomenon of 'incorporation'".
SA: Subject/Artist
   Cameras.; Locks and keys.; Cybernetics.; Student projects -- United
   States -- Denver (Colorado) -- University of Colorado at Denver --
   School of Architecture and Planning.

Record 24 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Disjecta membra: architecture and the loss of the body [by] Michael J.
   Ostwald, R. John Moore [book review]
AU: Author
   Drake, Scott.
SO: Source
   Architectural theory review: journal of the Department of
   Architecture, the University of Sydney, 1999 Nov., v.4, n.2,
   p.107-109
AB: Abstract
   Publ. for an exhibition of the same name, 1998. Interprets the work of
   Tschumi, Himmelblau and Diller & Scofidio.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Architecture -- Human factors.; Architecture -- Theory.; Diller +
   Scofidio.; Tschumi, Bernard, 1944-; Exhibitions -- Disjecta Membra:
   Architecture and the Loss of the Body.; Coop Himmelblau.

Record 25 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   The disorder of order, and after
AU: Author
   Outram, John, [1934-]
SO: Source
   Architectural design, 2000 Oct., v.70, n.5, p.[15]-23
AB: Abstract
   "Behind the 'meaningless arithmetical mantra' of the grid, argues John
   Outram, is the forbidden cave of riches that is history, sealed up by
   the tragedy of modernism with a powerful taboo. To open and explore
   it, he suggests, would be to discover the fleshed out, still-breathing
   body of architecture, of which the grid is only the cryptic treasure
   map." With illustrations from the author's own work.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Architecture -- Theory.; Modern Movement -- Criticism.; Grids (Layout
   features).; Outram, John, 1934-

Record 26 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Body talk
AU: Author
   Grant, Simon.
SO: Source
   Blueprint (London, England), 2000 Apr., n.171, p.32-34,36
AB: Abstract
   "...examines some collaborations between architects and dancers which
   seek to express the structure of movement and the dance of space."
SA: Subject/Artist
   Space (Architecture).; Architecture -- Human factors.; Dance.;
   Architecture in performing arts.

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DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Re-activate the docile body: a critical (re)view of Diller and
   Scofidio's "Slow House"
AU: Author
   Bremner, Alex.
SO: Source
   Architectural theory review: journal of the Department of
   Architecture, the University of Sydney, 2000 Apr., v.5, n.1,
   p.104-122
AB: Abstract
   Reconsiders "some of the major themes evident in the work by offering
   three distinct yet related interpretations concerning the design's
   relationship to form, image, and the human.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Vacation houses -- United States -- North Haven (New York) -- Slow
   House.; Architectural design -- Theory.; Diller, Elizabeth.; Scofidio,
   Richard, 1935-; Architecture -- Human factors.

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DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Architectural representations in the "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili"
   (Aldus Manutius, 1499)
AU: Author
   Stewering, Roswitha.
SO: Source
   Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2000 Mar., v.59,
   n.1, p.[6]-25
AB: Abstract
   Analysis of architectural representations, particularly the Temple of
   Venus Physizoa.  Contradicts L. Lefaivre's thesis of a direct
   connection between the author or the artist of the "Hypnerotomachia"
   and Leon Battista Alberti, and situates the Master of Polifilo in the
   group of painter-architects, along with Francesco di Giorgio Martini,
   Leonardo, and Raphael.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Colonna, Francesco, d. 1527. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.; Architecture
   in literature.; Architectural literature -- 15th century -- Italy --
   Venice.; Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc.; Perspective.

UNSW books: "Geometries on Surfaces"

Geometries on surfaces Author: Burkard Polster Günter Steinke 1955- Subjects: Geometry, Projective ; Surfaces Description: 1. Geometries for Pedestrians -- 2. Flat Linear Spaces -- 3. Spherical Circle Planes -- 4. Toroidal Circle Planes -- 5. Cylindrical Circle Planes -- 6. Generalized Quadrangles -- 7. Tubular Circle Planes -- App. 1. Tools and Techniques from Topology and Analysis -- App. 2. Lie Transformation Groups. "The projective, Mobius, Laguerre, and Minkowski planes over the real numbers are just a few examples of a host of fundamental classical topological geometries on surfaces that satisfy an axiom of joining. This book summarises all known major results and open problems related to these classical geometries and their close (non-classical) relatives." "Topics covered include: classical geometries; methods for constructing non-classical geometries; classifications and characterisations of geometries. This work is related to a host of other fields including interpolation theory, convexity, differential geometry, topology, the theory of Lie groups and many more. The authors detail these connections, some of which are well-known, but many much less so." "Acting both as a referee for experts and as an accessible introduction for beginners, this book will interest anyone wishing to know more about incidence geometries and the way they interact.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY: UNSW books: "Geometries on Surfaces"

Geometries on surfaces Available at  Level 6, Main Library -P 516.5/72 Author: Burkard Polster Günter Steinke 1955- Subjects: Geometry, Projective ; Surfaces Description: 1. Geometries for Pedestrians -- 2. Flat Linear Spaces -- 3. Spherical Circle Planes -- 4. Toroidal Circle Planes -- 5. Cylindrical Circle Planes -- 6. Generalized Quadrangles -- 7. Tubular Circle Planes -- App. 1. Tools and Techniques from Topology and Analysis -- App. 2. Lie Transformation Groups. "The projective, Mobius, Laguerre, and Minkowski planes over the real numbers are just a few examples of a host of fundamental classical topological geometries on surfaces that satisfy an axiom of joining. This book summarises all known major results and open problems related to these classical geometries and their close (non-classical) relatives." "Topics covered include: classical geometries; methods for constructing non-classical geometries; classifications and characterisations of geometries. This work is related to a host of other fields including interpolation theory, convexity, differential geometry, topology, the theory of Lie groups and many more. The authors detail these connections, some of which are well-known, but many much less so." "Acting both as a referee for experts and as an accessible introduction for beginners, this book will interest anyone wishing to know more about incidence geometries and the way they interact."--BOOK JACKET.

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