Assignment 1: That was Then | |
19 January 2010 | |
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Working together in groups of 4–5 students, choose one architecture publication below to research. Design a short slide show (approximately 30 full-frame slides, no on-screen text) together with a written script which places this publication in its context. When and how was the publication created? Who initiated the project? How was it printed? Who published it?
Who read it? Who paid for it? What else was happening in architecture at the time? In the world? How did it fit into an existing discourse? How many copies were printed? What else was published around the same time? How long did it remain in print? How was it produced? Was it sold? Reprinted? Shared? Collected? Please choose from the following list:
Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier
Nine Chains to the Moon, R. Buckminster Fuller
Team 10 Primer, edited by Alison Smithson
The Image of the City, Kevin Lynch
Ekistics, edited by C.A. Doxiadis
Archigram (series), Peter Cook, David Greene, Michael Webb,
Warren Chalk, Ron Herron and Dennis Crompton
Domebook 1 and 2, Lloyd Kahn and others
A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander
Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Oppositions (series), edited by Peter Eisenman, Kenneth Frampton,
and Mario Gandelsonas
Soft Architecture Machines, Nicholas Negroponte
Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas
Pamphlet Architecture (series), Steven Holl and William Stout
SMLXL, Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau
ANY Magazine, Cynthia Davidson and 2x4