Reading Schedule

Hello everyone, for the week following spring break this is our reading list
Please make sure that you are caught up on the reading.
I am giving you a short assignment in order to wrap things up in the first section on mathematical models and the tradition of Euclid, Descartes, the rupture with digital design and calculus based and topology based techniques.
Two pages, singles spaced: discuss the use of Cartesian and non-Cartesian models of mathematics in any of the contemporary architects (Lynn, UN Studio, FOA, etc.) and identtify how the transformation of models signals a new ontology for architecture.

Cecil Balmond, Informal (Munich; New York, 2002) 347-365
Ben van Berkel, Basically (for now) Three Topics, in C. Davidson ed., Anyhow (MIT Press: New Cambridge Mass., 1998) 88-93.
Alejandro Zaera Polo, FOA, Phylogenesis, passages.
Gilles Delueze, Fold: Leibniz and the baroque (Minneapolis, 1993)
Greg Lynn, “Blob Tectonics, Or why Tectonics is Square and Topology is Groovy, in Folds, Bodies, and Blobs (Originally published in Any Magazine, no. 14.)