Course readings Fall 2008

Charrette reader in three sections:

1: Collaboration, Introducing Interdisciplinary Studies, The Role of the Journal, Artist as Writer

*Kushner, Tony. "Is it a Fiction that Playwrights Create Alone?". Barron, Frank, et al., eds. Creators on Creating: Awakening and Cultivating the Imaginative Mind. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 1997.

*Warhol, Andy. "Work". The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again). New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1975.

*Teague, Deborah. "Making Meaning--Your Own Meaning--When You Read". Bishop, Wendy, ed. The Subject is Reading. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 2000.

*Tharp, Twyla. "I Walk into a White Room". The Creative Habit. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
*play video of Tharp dance, from Cornish Library

*Ruscha, Ed. Excerpts from Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages. Schwartz, Alexandra, ed. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. pp. 384-429 (selection).

*put Ruscha books on reserve in Cornish Library

*Cage, John. "Composition as Process". Silence (Lectures and Writings by John Cage). Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
*Audio of Cage composition, on reserve in Cornish Library

[Tharp, Richter, Ruscha, and Cage as one reading project]

2. Boundaries and Intersections in the City: Seeing Green, Seeing Grey


*Robert Smithson image, see above
Floating Island To Travel Around Manhattan Island
Link to articles and images (on blog only) showing the realized project in 2005

*Calvino, Italo. Excerpts from Marcovaldo: or The Seasons in the City. New York: Harvest Books, 1983.

*Mowry, Jess. "One Way". Rats in the Trees. New York: Penguin Books, 1990.

*Rojas, James. "The Enacted Environment". Groth, Paul and Chris Wilson, eds. Everyday America: Cultural Landscape Studies after J.B. Jackson. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2003.

*Klosterman, Chuck. "The Ice Planet Goth". Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas. New York: Scribner, 2007.

[pair Mowry, Rojas, and Klosterman together as one reading project]

3. Mapping your environment

*Kaiser, Ward L., and Denis Wood. Excerpts from Seeing Through Maps (The Power of Images to Shape Our World View). Amherst, MA: ODT, Inc.

*Harvey, P.D.A. From "The Map and Its History". Mappa Mundi: The Hereford World Map. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1996.

*Lister, Raymond. Selected figures from Antique Maps and Their Cartographers. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1970.

*Buisseret, David. Selected figures from The Mapmaker's Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003.

*Wood, Denis. "Two Maps of Boylan Heights". Harmon, Katherine, ed. You Are Here (Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination). New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004.

*Davis, Katie. "Memory Maps". Harmon, Katherine, ed. You Are Here (Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination). New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004.

*Turchi, Peter. Excerpts from Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer. San Antonio: Trinity Univ. Press, 2004.

*Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird (Some Instructions on Writing and Life). New York: Anchor Books, 1994.

*Iyer, Pico. "In Praise of the Humble Comma". Bishop, Wendy, ed. On Writing: A Process Reader. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.

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Post-charette

Naming the City, Remembering the City, Opening the City

*Calvino, Italo. Invisible Cities. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.

Orientation, or Moving through Rooms, Neighborhoods, Buildings, and Parks
*Calvino, Italo. "Park-bench vacation", from Marcovaldo: or The Seasons in the City. New York: Harvest Books, 1983.

*Featherstone, Steve. "Heads Up: Military Graffiti in Kuwait and Afghanistan". A Public Space. Brooklyn: A Public Space Literary Projects, Inc., Issue 5, December 2007. pp. 140-155.

*De Botton, Alain. Excerpts from The Architecture of Happiness. New York: Pantheon Books, 2006.

*Kazin, Alfred. Excerpt from A Walker in the City. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1979.

*Lewis, Pierce. "The Monument and the Bungalow". Wilson, Groth, Paul and Chris Wilson, eds. Everyday America: Cultural Landscape Studies after J.B. Jackson. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2003.

*Jackson, J.B. "The Past and Future Park". A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

Working in the City or, The Language of the Office: Office Culture, Office Spaces, Office Writing

*Baker, Nicholson. Excerpt from The Mezzanine. New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1990.

*Koolhaas, Rem. "Generica". Mutations. Bordeaux: ACTAR, 2001.

*Mozingo, Louise A. "Campus, Estate, Park: Lawn Culture Comes to the Corporation". Wilson, Groth, Paul and Chris Wilson, eds. Everyday America: Cultural Landscape Studies after J.B. Jackson. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2003.

Building through Seattle: Scaffolding, Containers, Atmosphere(s), Disorientation, Development and Loss

*Walker, Lester. American Shelter: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home. Woodstock: The Overlook Press, 1981.

*Buren, Daniel. "The Function of the Studio". Ulrich-Obrist, Hans and Barbara Vanderlinden, eds. Laboratorium. Antwerpen: Dumont, Promotie Antwerpen Open, 2001.

*Warhol , Andy. "Atmosphere". The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again). New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1975.

*Mitchell, Susan. "Notes Toward a History of Scaffolding". D'Agata, John, ed. The Next American Essay. St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 2002.

*Ponge, Francis. Excerpts from Selected Poems. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, 1994.

*Dillard, Annie. Excerpt from The Living. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. pp. 156-167.

*Morgan, Murray. INSERT READING HERE from Tacoma Public Library Murray Morgan essay collection here

*Offenbacher, Matthew, et al., eds. La Especial Norte (zine). 2008.