Xtras: noodles and nuggets

Xtras because we weren’t sure where to put this - while we continue to work on our studio manual, compendium or blogaglog- the working title is currently ‘Joy of Six’ - ‘noodles and nuggets’ because our noodles are full of random stuff and nuggets (of gold?) - compact bits of information - might be better than pearls of wisdom… but who knows…so this is a list of books, films, people, proverbs, sayings, sounds, music and other things and non-things that have inspired the work of studio six this year… 

 

a key to understand the listings:[w]words [p]photography [c]cinema [m]music [tv]television [ex]exhibitions [ev]events [th] theatre

[key] Author: Title of item   

 

[w]Vance Packard, The Hidden Persuaders. / The Waste Makers [w]Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space [w]George Perec, Species of Spaces and other pieces[w]Kester Rattenbury This is not architecture [w]Various: AAFiles 45/46 Perec and Paris [w]Paul Theroux: The Old Patagonian Express [w]The Institue without Boundaries: Massive Change [w]Wally Olins: On Brand [c]Patrick Keiller, London (1994) [tv]Larry David: Curb your Enthusiasm [w]Katherine Harmon: You are here; Personal Geographies [w]ED by James R. Akerman & Robert W. Karrow Jr.: Maps; Finding our place in the world [ex] Sheffield Millenuim Galleries: On the Map (19 Jan - 15 June ‘0 8) [w]Harvard Design School, Rem Koolhass: The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping[w]Sarah Murray: Moveable Feasts, The Incredible Journeys of the Thing We Eat [w]Colin Tudge: So Shall We Reap, What’s Gone Wrong With The World’s Food - And How To Fix It.[w]William McDonough & Michael Braungart: Cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make things, New York: North Point Press, 2002[w]Conrad J: Heart of Darkness,  London: Penguin Books, 1995.[w]Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser: Resource stadt city [w] Robert L. Stevenson, Treasure Island (New York: The Heritage Press, 1941) [w] Voltaire, Candide, (London: Grant & Cutler, 1997)[w] Michel Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic (London: Routledge, 2003)  [w] Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization  [w] Tony Gould, Don’t Fence me in: From Curse to Cure, Leprosy in Modern Times, (London: Bloomsbury, 2005)  [w] Pat Jallard, Death in the Victorian Family (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)  [w] Archie Miles, The Trees that Made Britain, (BBC Books, 2006)  [w] Thomas Packenham, Meeting with Remarkable Trees, (Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, 1996)  [w] Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade (London: Vintage, 1998)  [m] Regina Specktor, ‘On the Radio’ [w] Tom Hodgkinson, How to be Idle (London: Penguin, 2005)  [th] Aristophanes, The Birds 414BC  [w] Jerome K Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow



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About

Studio Six, MArch School of Architecture,

University of Sheffield

The work of  Studio Six is linked to the Interdependence Day project, (www.interdependenceday.co.uk)

launched in 2006 to reinvigorate sustainability debates and to question some of the technocratic outcomes of seeing ecological and economic concerns as an accounting or ‘problem solving’ challenge.

What can architecture contribute to this attempt to reconsider global, economic and environmental issues?

Interdependent understanding invites an architecture rooted in creativity and metaphor, which ‘listens’ to the potential of a city rather than imposing mark marketable criteria of enterprise, lifestyle or efficiency. This architecture is based on conversations between the city and its varied inhabitants, and in an awareness of its social, economic and ecological metabolism.

The interdependencies of a place may be understood as a particularly dynamic and complex constellation of social, economic and emotional relations, but the term also has ambitions for a sense of a place that is extroverted and unexpected. Interdependence includes a consciousness of links with the wider world integrating in a positive way the near and far, the local and the global, the human and the ecological.

The studio will instigate alternative modes of architectural collaboration, representation, and communication that are more open and amateur rather than specialised or expert. We will be exploring an architecture of ‘making-do’ and of ‘provisional construction’.

The studio has been exploring the ’steel cities’ of Nowa Huta and Sheffield but we have also been thinking about other cities, about state responsibility, about carnival, about pigeons…     Renata Tyszczuk