Sunday 12 October 2008

Reading list for Olafur Eliasson’s school

Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland (1884)
Daniel Birnbaum, The Hospitality of Presence: Problems of Otherness in Husserl’s Phenomenology (1998)
Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (1980)
Jonathan Crary, Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century (1992)
Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle (1967)
Gilles Deleuze, Bergsonism (1990)
Jan Gehl, Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (1987)
George Kubler, The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things (1962)
Bruno Latour, ‘From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik - An Introduction to Making Things Public’, in Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy (2005)
Doreen Massey, For Space (2005)
M. Minnaert, The Nature of Light and Colour in the Open Air (1954)
Chantal Mouffe, ‘Agonistic Public Spaces, Democratic Politics, and the Dynamic of Passions’, in Thinking Worlds: The Moscow Conference on Philosophy, Politics, and Art (2008)
Thomas More, Utopia (1516)
Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (2005)
John Rajchman, Constructions (Writing Architecture) (1998)
Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Experiencing Architecture (1964)
Israel Rosenfield, The Invention of Memory: A New View of the Brain (1988)
Felicity D. Scott, Architecture or Techno-Utopia: Politics after Modernism (2007)
Francisco J. Varela, Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition (1999)
Lawrence Weschler, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin (1982)

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