The bibliography on design and computation is immense. The following much selected list includes some of the very best books in the field that combine technical expertise and a broad vision for the impact of computation in architectural discourse. Specific readings for each topic of the course will be given in the weekly handouts.

Goodman Nelson, 1976, Languages of Art, Indianapolis: Hackett

Foley James, Andries van Dam, Steven Feimer, and John Hughes, 1990, Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Reading Mass: Addison-Wesley

Kalay Yehuda, 2004, Architecture’s New Media: Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer-Aided Design. MIT Press, Cambridge: MIT Press

Knight T, 1994b, Transformations in Design: A formal approach to stylistic change and innovation in the visual arts, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

March Lionel, 1974, The Geometry of the Environment, Cambridge: MIT Press

Mitchell William, McCullough Malcolm, 1995, Digital Design Media, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold

Mitchell William, 1994, The Logic of Architecture, Design, Computation and Cognition, Cambridge: MIT Press

Stiny George, 2006, Shape: Talking about Seeing and Doing Cambridge, MA: MIT Press