our project: sources

publications

• Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” in Illuminations. New York: Schoken Books: 2004.
• Fuller, Matthew. Media Ecologies, Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture. Cambridge, USA: MIT Press, 2005
• Gehry, Frank. “Introduction,” Symphony: Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003.
• Hayles, N. Katherine. Electronic Literature, New Horizons for the Literary. Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008.
• Hayles, N. Katherine and Gannon, Todd. “Virtual Architecure, Actual Media,” forthcoming.
• Kittler, Friedrich. Literature, Media, Information Systems. Amsterdam: G+B Arts, 1997.
• Koolhaas, Rem and Whiting, Sarah. “Spot Check: A Conversation between Rem Koolhaas and Sarah Whiting.” Assemblage, n. 40, Dec., 1999, pp. 36-55.
• Kwinter, Sanford. “Urbanism after Innocence: Four Projects: The Reinvention of Geometry,” Assemblage, n. 18, August 1992, pp. 82-113.
• Liu, Andrew, “The Idea of Knowledge Work,” The Laws of Cool. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
• Manovich, Lev. “Database as Symbolic Form,” Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
• Mattern, Shannon Christine. Building Ideologies: a case study of the Seattle Public Library Building and its embodied ideas, ideals and values; Program in Media Ecology, Department of Culture and Communication. New York: New York University, 2002.
• Nash, Richad Eoin. “Follies and Falsities: Architectural Photography.” A Journal of Performance and Art, v. 23 n. 2, May 2001, pp. 71-74.
• Paul, Christianne. “The Database as System and Cultural Form: Anatomies of Cultural Narrative,” Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
• Perez-Gomez, Alberto and Pelletier, Louise. Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.
• Pine, B. Joseph and Gilmore, James H. The Experience Economy: Work is Theatre & Every Business a Stage. Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press, 1999.
• Rattenbury, Kester. This is not Architecture, Media Constructions. London: Routledge, 2002.
• Saunders, William S. “Rem Koolhaas’s Writing on Cities: Poetic Perception and Gnomic Fantasy,” Journal of Architectural Education, v. 51 n. 1, September 1997, pp. 61-71.
• Speaks, Michael “Design intelligence: or thinking after the end of metaphysics” in Architectural Design 72: Versioning: evolutionary techniques in architecture, v. 72, n. 5, September 2002, pp. 4-6
• Vesna, Victoria. “Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand,” Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

periodicals

• A+U 412: Structure and Materials; JA Publications, Tokyo, Japan: 2005
• El Croquis 134/135: OMA 1996/2007; El Croquis Publications, Madrid, Spain: 2007

websites

• Office for Metropolitan Architecture in February 17, 2008
• REX Architecture in February 16, 2008
• New York Times in February 14, 2008
• Flickr in March 1, 2008
• Youtube in February 16, 2008
• Google Video in March 5, 2008
• Seattle Central Library in February 17, 2008

blog posts

• “brutal” architecture – a comparison of the construction of SPL and software architecture

• seattle public library is place – some thoughts on SPL as an event-structure

• seattle public library – post and discussion (on the comments) over SPL

• new seattle library is stunning – short blog post on SPL

• library meets industrial loft – impressions of another librarian about SPL

• seattle public library – comment on an architecture blog