Advanced Design 1: ‘Synthesis’ is a design
studio I supervise at the University of Auckland in the first semester of the M.Arch(prof.) program.
This page will function as a space for the publication of student works and experiments through the course of the studio. It will also function as a hub for learning resources and notifications.
Students are advised to use an RSS reader to receive updates from this page.
Synthesis begins 9am, February 27th 2012.
POST 1 [dec 7 2011]: Preliminary Reading List
Bruno Taut — Apline Architecture
Antonio De Rossi – Modern Alpine Architecture
Christoph Mayr Fingerie – New Apline Architecture
Stan Allen – Points and lines
Reiser + Umemoto – Atlas of Novel tectonics
Peter Zumthor – Thinking architecture
Peter Zumthor – Atmospheres
Alain de Botton – The architecture of happiness
Gaston Bachelard – The poetics of space
Atelier Bow Wow – Behaviorology
Carlo Mollino – Carlo Mollino 1905–1973
Kengo Kumo – Material immaterial: the new work of Kengo Kuma
Denis Cosgrove – High Places: cultural geographies of mountains, ice and science.
Documents from the Permanent International Secretariat:
(available from http://www.alpconv.org/archive/index_en)
- Alpine Convention
- Alpine Hydropower
- Climate Change in the Alps
- People and Pressures in the Mountains
- Report on the state of the Alps
- The Alps facing the challenge of changing water resources