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Architecture: BORDER (E)SCAPES & ECOLOGIES: Course Readings

This research guide supports ARCH 101 Introduction to Architecture Studio "Border (E)scapes" and ARCH 302 "Border Ecologies". It highlights research related to architecture within the larger urban territory and considers social and environmental impacts.

Architecture Border (e)scapes & ecologies

ARCH 101 Introduction to Architecture Studio

On Tijuana-San Diego border

PLEASE NOTE: Copley Library has print access to the San Diego Union Tribune from 1992 (last two months kept onsite) and online access from 2002-2019. 

 

  • Ronald Rael. “Borderwall as Architecture. A manifesto for the US-México Boundary.” University of California Press, 2017.

Available via the San Diego Circuit: http://circuit.sdsu.edu/record=b25931645~S0*eng

 

 

On drawing and design process

  • Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny, editors. Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet. Architekturnzentrum Wien and The MIT Press, Cambridge MA and London England, 2019.

Available via the San Diego Circuit: http://circuit.sdsu.edu/record=b31700252~S0*eng

 

  • Atelier Bow Wow, Graphic Anatomy. Toto; 4260 3rd edition, 2007

Available via the San Diego Circuit: http://circuit.sdsu.edu/record=b32478414~S0*eng

 

  • Bjorn Billing. Circular visions: viewing the world from above in the late eighteenth century. Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg, Journal of Historical Geography 63 (2019) 61e72.

 

 

  • Stephen Foley, Mapping the Design Process: From Charles Eames to Enric Miralles. Building Material, No. 21, Practise (2018), pp. 33-50. Published by Architectural Association of Ireland. 

 

On Anamorphosis

  • Lyle Massey, Configuring Spatial Ambiguity: Picturing the Distance Point from Alberti to Anamorphosis. Studies in the History of Art , 2003, Vol. 59, Symposium Papers XXXVI: The Treatise on Perspective: Published and Unpublished (2003), pp. 160-175. Published by: National Gallery of Art. Available via JSTOR Database.

 

  • J.L. Hunt. (2006) “J-F. Niceron’s La Perspective Curieuse Revisited.” Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Canada. 

Freely available online at the Bridges Archive https://archive.bridgesmathart.org

 

  • Roger Cardinal, The Artificiali Perspectiva, or Anamorphosis, 1991, From the Vaults. Produced for The Program for Art and Film, a joint venture of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and J. Paul Getty Trust (video). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEfwbnMf3jM

 

  • Thi Phuong-Tråm Nguyen. “Anamorphosis: An Inquiry into the Unknown.” From Drawing Futures, Speculations in Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture, edited by Laura Allen and Luke Caspar Pearson. The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UCL Press 2016.  Print ISBN 9781988366043, also available via JSTOR Database

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ARCH 302 Architectural Design Vertical Studio

Landscape Urban Issues

  • Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny, editors. Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet. Architekturnzentrum Wien and The MIT Press, Cambridge MA and London England, 2019.

Available via the San Diego Circuit: http://circuit.sdsu.edu/record=b31700252~S0*eng

 

  • Bruno Latour. “Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climate Regime.” Polity, 2018. 

ISBNs: 9781509530564, 9781509530571, 1509530568, 1509530576 - Worldcat

 

  • Charles Waldheim. “The Landscape Urbanism Reader.” Princeton Architectural Press, 2006.

Available via the San Diego Circuit:: http://circuit.sdsu.edu/record=b17061776~S0*eng

 

Tijuana Urban Ecologies

  • Biodiversity Research Center of the Californias (BRCC)

https://www.sdnhm.org/science/brcc-mission/

 

 

 

  • Tijuana River Valley Historical Ecology Investigation. Prepared by San Francisco Estuary Institute-Aquatic Science Center, Publication #760. Prepared for the California State Coastal Conservancy, January 2017.

https://www.sfei.org/documents/tijuana-river-valley-historical-ecology-investigation

 

  • Ronald Rael. “Borderwall as Architecture. A manifesto for the US-México Boundary.” University of California Press, 2017.

Available via the San Diego Circuit: http://circuit.sdsu.edu/record=b25931645~S0*eng

Tijuana Data and Maps

 

 

  • Border Relations of the CaliBaja Region and the Impacts on our Economy - San Diego Workforce Partnership

https://workforce.org/news/border-relations-of-the-calibaja-region-and-the-impacts-on-our-economy/

 

 

Botanical Gardens

 

  • Waylen, K. “Botanic Gardens: Using Biodiversity to Improve Human Well-Being.” Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Richmond, UK (2006). In “The Role of Botanic Gardens As Resource and Introduction Centers in the Face of Global Change.” By Vernon H. Heywood. Biodiversity Conservation, 20 (2011): 221-239. 

 

  • Thompson, P.A. “The Role of the Botanic Garden.” Taxon 21, no. 1 (February 1972): 115-119.

JSTOR

Cartographies and Representation

  • Abrams, Janet and Hall, Peter eds. Else/Where: Mapping New Cartographies of Networks and Territories. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Design Institute, 2006.

Available via the San Diego Circuit: http://circuit.sdsu.edu/record=b15056470~S0*eng

 

  • Alessandro Tagliolini (writings), and Giovan Battista Falda (1683 drawings). “Li Giardini Di Roma, con le Loro Alzate e Vedute in Prospettiva.” Edizioni Intra Moenia, 2017.

 

 

  • Bjorn Billing, Circular visions: viewing the world from above in the late eighteenth century. Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg, Journal of Historical Geography, 63 (2019) 61e72.

 

  • Carol Burns, “On Site: Architectural Preoccupations,” in Drawing, Building, Text: Essays in Architectural Theory, ed. Andrea Kahn (New York: Princeton Architectural, 1991), 147-167.

ISBN: 9780910413718

 

 

 

  • Simon Sadler. “The Situationist City.” MIT Press, 1999.

 

Other links

 

 

  • Gilles Cément. "Favoring the Living over Form" website

https://www.pca-stream.com/en/articles/gilles-clement-favoring-the-living-over-form-115#:~:text=The%20gardener%2Dlandscaper%20Gilles%20Cl%C3%A9ment,favors%20the%20living%20over%20form.

 

 

 

Available to stream through Kanopy.

 

  • Xu Bing, Asian Artist. Series of Five Repetitions. Asia, 1987- 1988.

https://www.xubing.com/en/work/details/211?classID=14&type=class