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Resources

An evolving reading list of resources.

Books and Reading

  • Conditional Design: An introduction to elemental architecture
  • Operative Design: A Catalog of Spatial Verbs
  • Prefab Homes
  • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
  • See What I Mean: How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas
  • The Structure of the Ordinary: Form and Control in the Built Environment
  • Towards a New Architecture
  • Value Stream Mapping
  • 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

Videos

  • The Next Leap: How A.I. will change the 3D industry - Andrew Price

Computational design

These papers extend beyond architecture into systems theory, computer science, and urban planning.

  • Software Reflexion Models
  • Process mapping techniques and organizational analysis
  • Thinking Maps

Working Notes

  • Slides - Concept and Company
  • Slides - Product
  • Slides - Process
  • Parts List
  • Finances

A collection of notes on collaborative systems and modular architecture, curated by Ryan Wold.
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