For some reason some links got stripped out, here they are again:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=20296
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/browse/browse.asp?btype=6&serid=179
http://haccslab.com/

Hey folks, tossed the code up online here: http://teaching.brysonian.com/thepublicschool/computational-design-strat...

The chair example was actually from form and code and the site for the book has a few other good examples, in different languages as well so there is a link to that too.

Also someone had asked about texts on the materiality of programming languages and the main thinker there is probably Matthew Fuller and the rest of the MIT SoftwareStudies series are great too: Also the work of the Critical Code Studies lab might be relevant:

thank you all for a great evening last night!
c

i second that. again, chandler and naoko, excellent survey/presentation of the history and current direction of computational design.

shall we call the next class 'computational design workshop'? we can do a skype session with you chandler and naoko where we figure a group dynamic to learn a bit of processing and then try to develop a group script? then we can show how to convert the output into a fabricable file, whether for 3d print, or laser cut, or CNC? i look fwd to some feedback.

in touch. luis

highly interesting presentation and discussion! chandler, can you please upload the processing code examples you showed?

excellent chandler, glad to hear!
here is the scan.
http://www.theanxiousprop.org/21LOG_PM.pdf
in touch, luis

luis, this is really fantastic. I hope you find a chance to scan those texts as I would love to add them to the discussion. Naoko and I are both with you on Schumacher and I'm very curious to hear Moss' take on it.

As for the class itself, we are open to a number of directions and levels of depth for this first go 'round. It would be wonderful if we can spend some of the time having an open discussion about algorithm, computation, and "the generative" and really explore how to deploy and analyze these concepts at formal, conceptual, and socio-political levels.

hi chandler, i hope you can. i will try to scan and upload them somewhere. i hope that we are able to parse, to use yr term, the computational, if algorithmic thinking which of course is paramount. but also, perhaps touching upon the techniques/tools (such as your proposed use of Processing, perhaps talking a tiny bit about catia, generative comoponents, rhino-script and its visual cousin grasshopper, and then the output tools, cnc's, 3d printers, laser cutters, etc.). That said, i have to say that I am a bit more interested to at least try to briefly discuss the socio-economic dimensions of this period we are in (DIY's, self-organization, material and parametric determinisms, etc.). I for one believe that Schumacher is way off on his assertions about parametricism supplanting modernism, more specifically from his neoliberalized, market-driven approach, well-voiced in both owen-moss' and even more articulately by rocker. we at the anxious prop have tried to delicately preempt this predictable matter of stylization many have had seen coming for the past decade, trying more to focus on the more collective, labor and environmental virtues of parametrics, as relativist dialectic, rather than an absolutist dictum. one last point, if provocation, i know that this above already might be too loaded to cover in the first class, let alone consider to produce a physical manifestation, but, as i am very excited about it and its potential discursive outcomes, that if we were to have future classes stemming from this initial one, that then i would like to volunteer the cnc router in my studio to produce a collective work based on the results of the class(es). Ok, that's a lot to say, again, very much looking forward. Thanks for doing this, in touch, best.luis

That sounds fascinating, but I'm not sure if we will have time to track down a copy in berlin and fully parse it before the class. Perhaps a follow-up?

hi, there is a compelling, dissonant series of essay in the recent issue of Log (i.21) by eric owen moss, ingeborg rocker and patrick schumacher which i feel are definitely worth mentioning... might be adding to much to the reading list, again, do believe worth a peek.