As a follow up to Ali Rahim's lecture at the AA last Thursday night, 26 Jan, I'm linking here to Monia's interview with him from last year. The article can be found here at ARCH'IT files.
The work of his practice can be found at Contemporary Achitecture Practice - his Reebok flagship store in Shanghai is amazing - and check out the towers in Dubai.
You can find most of the books below on the unit shelf in the AA Library. More will be added soon and I'll be handing out a reader next week with selected texts from the books below and other sources. Feel free to suggest additional texts and references.
Olafur Eliasson: Your Lighthouse: Works with Light 1991-2004, Germany, 2004.
Ulrike Brandi, Lightbook: The Practice of Lighting Design, Birkhauser, Basel, 2001.
Gannon, Todd, Light Construction Reader, New York, Monacelli Press, 2002
Ulrich Conrads, Programs and Manifestoes on 20th Century Architecture, The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1971
Betsky, Aaron, Architecture Must Burn – Manifestoes for the Future of Architecture, Gingko Press, 2001.
Venturi, Robert, Learning From Las Vegas, London, MIT Press, 1977
Pereira, Sharmini, James Turell: Projection Works, 1966-1969, London, Albion Gallery, 2004
David Redhead, Products of Our Time, Birkhauser, London 2000
Nicola Stattmann, Ultra Light – Super Strong, Birkhauser, Basel, 2003
Simply Droog, 2004
Sarah Braddock + Marie O’Mahony, Techno Textiles, Thames and Hudson, London 1998
Pallasmaa, Juhani, The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in Cinema, Helsinki, 2001.
McKee, Robert, Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting, Methuen, London, 1999.
D'Arcy Thompson, On Grown and Form, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1966