The Architecture Machine and Soft Architecture Machines
Nicholas Negroponte’s books The Architecture Machine and Soft Architecture Machines are long out of print and often quite expensive. Following the links above will provide you with digital versions of the books.
Hey thanks for sharing these Molly!
The chapter on Computer Aided Participatory Design is particularly interesting. I like the comment on p101 of Soft Architecture Machines, when discussing three types of participation, Negroponte labels the first two as “timid endeavors of deprofessionalization”
Excellent, many thanks for sharing. I am currently writing my PhD thesis on the Relevanco of Gordon Pask for digital design strategies in architecture and was desperately looking for those books online.
Grazie davvero per aver condiviso i libri!
Some background on Pask’s contributions to Soft Architecture can be found in a recent video I produced for cyberneticist and designer Paul Pangaro. Enjoy! http://vimeo.com/31987180