The End of Mechanics: Smart Materials and Adaptability
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Winter, 2006
http://www.robotecture.com/endofmechanics
Units: 2.0: Lecture / Location: F 10-12am, Building 3 Room 110
Instructor: Michael Fox (mafox@foxlin.com or michaelfox@csupomona.edu)

Hardcopy Resources

Amato, Ivan. Stuff. Harper Collins, 1997
Ed. Bechthold, Griggs, Schodek and Steinberg , Working With Designers: A Fabricator’s Perspective, Milgo Bufkin Company” from New Technologies in Architecture 2000.
Brownell, Blaine. Transmaterial. Princeton Architectural Press, 2005.

Gordon, J. E. The New Science of Strong Materials. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1984.

Kennedy, Sheila. KVA: Material Misuse. London: Architectural Association, 2001.

Lupton, Ellen. Skin. London: Laurence King, 2002.

Lavin, Sylvia. Plasticity at Work. Mood River (organized by Jeffrey Kipnis and Annetta Massie). Wexner Center, 2002.
Paola Antonelli, Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design, New York, 1995.

Picon, Antoine. Architecture and The Virtual: Towards a New Materiality. Praxis 06, 2005.

Toshiko Mori, Immaterial/ Ultramaterial, architecture, design, and materials. 2000.

Weblinks Available on the class Website:

http://www.robotecture.com/endofmechanics