Wednesday, February 23, 2011

writing by searching (or surfing)

I. Picked this up from the CCA bookstore:
On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 1945

this led to:
On Growth and Form - Organic Architecture and Beyond
edited by Philip Beesley & Sarah Bonnemaison 2008
7 Why Rebisit D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's On Growth and Form?

54 The Forces of Matter by Hadas A. Steiner-
has C.P.'s "precise time factor into the process of enclosure"
(Works II, London:AA 1984).
'the possibility of sudden and dramatic collape' of the bubble's structural properties. (Adrian George, Cover of Architectural Design October 1970) p59

100 Naturalization, in Circles: Architecture, Science, Architecture by Reinhold Martin >
further reading - Christopher Aleander, Notes on the Synthesis of Form 1964.

For fun: Alexander C. and P. Eisenman, @Contrasting Concepts of Harmoney in Architecture" 1982, Lotus International 40 1983, 60-68

Then to Philip Beesley
Kinetic Architectures & Geotextile installations by Philip Beesley 2007
Hylozoic Ground- liminal responsive architecture, Philip Beesley 2010

II. Searching with the key words, Tracing:
Lines - a brief history by Tim Ingold 2007
1. Language, music and notation
2. Traces, threads and surfaces
3. up, across and along
4. The genealogical line
5. Drawing, writing and calligraphy
6. How the line became straight

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