To all,
As mentioned earlier, for your second report you can choose from a variety of topics including:
Gardens, Landscape Urbanism, Green Cities, Green Buildings, Roof and/or Vertical Gardens, Minimalism,
and Passive/Mixed/ or Full energy modes. All these topics must relate to architecture’s relation with the
larger environment and sustainability. Listed below are a number of architects and buildings that can
either become your main topic of research, or, examples used in conjunction with other topics covered
during the semester. Please remember that you must find two important sources of information (ideally
books) that you must contrast as part of your report investigation.
Architect/Author Building/Item Main Reference (book)
Hassan Fathy Any major building Architecture of the Poor
Buckminster Fuller Buildings and/or patents Several books by or of him
Kevin Roche Ford Foundation/ John Deere Kevin Roche + Internet articles
John Frazer AA School – Isuu An Evolutionary Architecture (online)
Morphosis Diamond Ranch Diamond Ranch High School
Fumihiko Maki Hillside Terrace Nurturing Dreams + others
Kengo Kuma Hiroshige Museum Architecture of Defeat + others
Charles Correa Kanchanjunga, or townhomes Ch. Correa Housing & Urbanization
Studio Mumbai Private Houses Studio Mumbai: Praxis
Glenn Murcutt Private Houses Several books of him
Peter Eisenman Earth projects Cities of Artificial Excavation
Junya Ishigami Kait Workshop and others Another Nature + others