Readings
As a research studio, it was crucial to develop a collective understanding of infrastructure, both in the earlier instantiations and worldviews that we have inherited and in the possibilities it holds for the future. The following readings helped develop the intellectual and design framework within which our research was conducted.
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
Banham, Reyner
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971
The Cannibal’s Cookbook: Mining Myths of Cyclopean Construction
Clifford, Brandon
San Francisco: Applied Research + Design Publishing, 2021
“Margins in Our Midst.” In The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles
Coolidge, Matthew, edited by Kazys Varnelis, 66–75
Barcelona: Actar, 2008
Local Code: 3,659 Proposals About Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities
de Monchaux, Nicholas
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2016.
Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment
Design Earth
New York: Actar, 2018.
Pamphlet Architecture 30: Coupling—Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism
Lateral Office and InfraNet Lab
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.
“The Land Ethic.” In A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
Leopold, Aldo
New York: Oxford University Press, 1949.
Los Angeles River Master Plan
Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, 2022.
The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles
Varnelis, Kazys, edited by Kazys Varnelis
Barcelona: Actar, 2008.
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Nixon, Rob
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Veneto 2100: Living with Water
Zanirato, Sergio, and Marino Folin, eds
Milan: Skira, 2014.