Issues of Event and Performance

Buildings that induce events or present people to each other: Public social spaces, Places of display, interactive spaces.

Places that teach or tell stories, create a narrative path or architectural choreography.

Experimental performances that explore issues of space.

Architects who focus on the issue: Bernard Tschumi, Diller & Scofidio, Antoine Predock, Charles Moore, Venturi & Scott-Brown, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Le Corbusier, Oscar Schlemmer, Lawrence & Anna Halprin (landscape architect & dancer), Vito Acconci (artist), Constant (artist),

Books and Articles:

Acconci, Vito. Vito Acconci: Writings, Works, Projects: Ediciones Poligrafa S.A., 2002.

Barthes, Roland. The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies. NY: Hill & Wang, 1979.

Bullivant, Lucy, ed. 4dspace, Architectural Design. London: Academic Press, 2005.

Campany, David, ed. The Cinematic. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2007.

Colomina, Beatriz. Privacy and Publicity. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994.

Eisenstein, Sergei M., and Yve-Alain Bois. "Montage and Architecture." Assemblage 10 (1989): 111-31.

Franck, Karen A., ed. Food and the City, Architectural Design. London: Academic Press, 2005.

Hannah, Dorita, and Omar Kahn, eds. Performance Architecture, Journal of Architectural Education. Washington, DC: ACSA, 2008.

Read, Gray. "The Theatre of Public Space." Journal of Architectural Education 58, no. 3 (2005): 53-62.

Riley, Terence. The Unprivate House. NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1999.

Treib, Mark. Space Calculated in Seconds: The Philips Pavilion. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Tschumi, Bernard. Architecture and Disjunction. Cambridge Mass: MIT Press, 1996.

Zizek, Slavoj. The Parallax View. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2006.

Zumthor, Peter. Atmospheres: Architectural Environments - Surrounding Objects. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2006.

———. Thinking Architecture. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2006.