Recommended reading

R Aish, Smart Geometry Architectural Exploration, Taylor & Francis, 2008

B Aranda, Tooling, Princeton Architectural Press, 2006

C Balmond, Informal, Prestel, 2007

C Ceccato, The Architect as Toolmaker: Computer-Based Generative Design Tools and Methods, Architectural Association, 1998

M Coates, Programming.Architecture, Routledge, 2010

F De Luca, M Nardini, Behind the Scene: Avant-garde techniques in contemporary design, Birkhäuser, 2002

J Frazer, An Evolutionary Architecture, Architectural Association, 1995

I Greenberg, Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art, Friends of ED, 2007

M Hansen, Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media, Routledge, 2006

M Hensel, A Menges, Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design, Architectural Design (AD), Wiley, 2006

N Leach, D Turnbull and C Williams, Digital Tectonics, Wiley, 2004

J Maeda, Creative Code: Aesthetics + Computation, Thames and Hudson, 2004

J Maeda, Maeda @ Media, Universe Publishing, 2001

J Maeda, Design By Numbers, MIT Press, 2001

Chapters by M Meredith, Aranda\Lasch and M Sasaki in T Sakamoto, A Ferre, M Kubo (eds), From Control to Design: Parametric/Algorithmic Architecture, Actar, 2008

W Mitchell, R Liggett, T Kvan, The Art of Computer Graphics Programming: A Structured Introduction for Architects and Designers, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1987

W Mitchell, The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era, MIT Press, 1992

W Mitchell, The Logic of Architecture: Design, Computation, ...

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