Dining with Behaviors / Readings on Interactive Environments
Art Center College of Design, Summer, 2004

Units: 3.0
Staff: Michael Fox (mafox@odesco.net)
Lecture / Location: Tuesday, Thursday 9-12, South Building

Required Readings:

Class 01: (Due Class02)

Fox, Cynthia, Techno Genarians: Wired Magazine, August 2001.

Fox, Michael: Transportable Environments 2, ed. Robert Kronenburg, Joseph Lim and Wong Yunn Chii. “Beyond Kinetic”, SPON Press, London, (2002)

Davidson, Cynthia: Guy Nordenson, Chuck Hoberman, Mahadev Raman: Interview: Three Engineers (Sitting around Talking) Any: Architecture New York, v10, Anyone Corp, New York, NY (1995)

Class 02: (Due Class03)

Kronenburg, Robert: Transportable environments: theory, context, design, and technology: papers from the International Conference on Portable Architecture, London, 1997, E & FN Spon, London (1998)

Robbin, Tony: Engineering a new architecture, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT (1996)

Zuk, William: New Technologies: New Architecture. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York (1996)

Class 03: (Due Class05)

Brown, Henry T.: Five hundred and seven mechanical movements: embracing all those which are most important in dynamics, hydraulics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, steam engines, mill and other gearing, presses, horology, and miscellaneous machinery, and including many movements never before published and several which have only recently come into use. 18th ed. New York: Brown & Seward, (1896)

Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo, and Theobald, Paul: Vision in Motion. Chicago: (1947)

Tufte, Edward R.: Visual Explanations. Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press (1997)

Class 04: No Readings

Class 05: No Readings

Class 06: (Due Class07)

Pawley, Martin: Theory and Design in the Second Machine Age Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, (1980)

Zuk, William: Kinetic Architecture. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York (1970)

Class 07: No Readings

Class 08: (Due Class09)

Chironis, Nicholas P.: Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook, McGraw Hill, (1996)
Jones, Franklin Day: Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors, Industrial Press (1977)

Shigley, Joseph E.: Standard Handbook of Machine Design, Mcgraw-Hill (1996)

Class 09: No Readings

Class 10: No Readings

Class 11: No Readings

Class 12: No Readings

Class 13: (Due Class15)

Fuller, R., Buckminster: Synergetics. New York: Macmillan (1975)

Gandhi, Mukesh V: Smart materials and structures. New York: Chapman & Hall (1992)

Garcia de Jalon, Javier. and Eduardo Bayo Kinematic and dynamic simulation of multibody systems : the real-time challenge. New York, Springer-Verlag, (1994)

Ove Arup Partnership: Exploring Materials: The Work of Peter Rice, Royal Gold Medalist 1992. London: Ove Arup Partnership (1992)

Class 14: No Readings

Class 15: No Readings

Class 16: No Readings

Class 17: No Readings

Class 18: No Readings

Class 19: No Readings

Class 20: No Readings

Class 21: No Readings

Class 22: No Readings

Class 23: No Readings

Class 24: No Readings

Additional Readings (not required)

Ansari, Farhad, Arup Maj, and Christopher Leung eds. Intelligent civil engineering materials and structures: a collection of state-of-the-art papers in the applications of emerging technologies to civil structures and materials. New York: American Society of Civil Engineers (1997)

Barr, Stephen: Experiments in Topology. New York: Crowell (1964)

Banchoff, Thomas F: Beyond the Third Dimension: Geometry, Computer Graphics, and Higher Dimensions. New York, Scientific American Library (1990)

Books,Tab: Mechanical Devices for the Electronics Experimenter, (1995)

Calatrava, S.: Secret Sketchbook, The Monacelli Press, Inc., New York (1995)

Carr, Joesph J.: Electronic Circuit Guidebook: Sensors, PROMPT Publications, (1997)

Culshaw, Brian: Smart structures and materials. Boston: Artech House (1996)

Drew, Phillip: Frei Otto: Form and Structure, Westview Press, Boulder, Colo. (1976)

Engel, Heinrich. Structure Systems. New York: Praeger, (1968)

Foley, J. and Van Dam, A.: Computer Graphics. Reading, Mass.: Addison Wesley (1990)

Gilbertson, Rodger G: Muscle Wires Project Book 3^rd Ed. Celene de Miranda San Anselmo, CA, MondoTronics (1992)

Gordon, J.E: The Science of Structures and Materials. New York: Scientific American Library, (1988)

Hoffman, Edward G.: Students Shop Reference Handbook, Industrial Press Inc. (1986)

Jensen, Preben W:Classical and modern mechanisms for engineers and inventors, New York : M. Dekker, (1991)

Kronenburg, Robert: Houses in motion: the genesis, history and development of the portable building. St. Martin's Press (1995)

Lefebver, Henri: The Production of Space New York: Vintage (1983)

McMahon, Thomas A. and Bonner, John Tyler: On Size and Life. New York, Scientific American Library (1983)

Molian, Samuel: Mechanism design : an introductory text. New York : Cambridge University Press (1982)

Molinari, Luca: Santiago Calatrava. Skira, Milano. (1998)

Morrison, Philip: Powers of Ten. New York, Scientific American Library (1994)

Parsons, Ron Vincent: “Computer-aided synthesis of kinematic linkages.” Thesis M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1975)

Reshetov, Leonid N.: Self-aligning mechanisms. Chicago, Ill. : Mir Publishers, (1982)

Sklar, Lawrence: Space, Time, and Spacetime. Los Angeles, California: University of California Press (1977)

Thompson, d’Arcy: On Growth and Form, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, (1961)

Tufte, Edward: Envisioning Information. Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press (1990)

Walker, John R., Goodheart-Willcox, Machining Fundamentals: From Basic to Advanced Techniques (1997)

Williams, Robert: The Geometrical Foundation Of Natural Structure : A Source Bool Of Design (1979)

Zerning, John: Design Guide to Anticlastic Structures in Plastic. Polytechnic of Central London (1976)