stuff I’ve been reading recently

economics

• Maddison, A 2007, Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Maddison, A 2001, About the World Economy: Historical Statistics, OECD Development Centre.
• Ferguson, N 2008, The Ascent of Money – A Financial History of the World, Allen Lane, London.
• Hon, D 2007, Empire of Debt, Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters, accessed 26th September 2009, from https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/74/The_Empire_of_Debt.html
• Atwood, M 2008, Payback – Debt and the shadow side of Wealth, Bloomsbury, London
• Barry N, Burton J et al 1984, Hayek’s ‘Serfdom’ revisited, Institute of Economic Affairs, London

towers

• Willis, C 1995, Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago, Princeton Architectural Press, New York.

melb archi history & theory

• Goad, P 2002, A Short history of Melbourne Architecture, Pesaro Publishing, Sydney.
• Goad, P 1999, Melbourne Architecture, The Watermark Press, Sydney.
• Lewis, M 1994, Melbourne – The City’s History and Development, City of Melbourne, Melbourne.
• Evans, D (ed) 1992, Aardvark II: the RMIT guide to contemporary Melbourne architecture, RMIT University Press, Melbourne.
• Evans, D (ed) 1997, Aardvark, accessed 24 August 2009, from http://aardvark.tce.rmit.edu.au

more theory

• Blazwick, I [ed] 2001, Century City – Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Gallery Publishing, London.
• In, J 2005, ‘Round and Around again : Demystifying Art and Architecture through the work of Walter Benjamin and Cedric Price‘, Undergraduate Research Essay, Faculty of Architecture Building + Planning, University of Melbourne

network theory

• Burke A & Tierney T [eds] 2007, Network Practices, Princeton Architectural Press, New York
• Connected – How Kevin Bacon cured Cancer 2008, video recording, Australian Broadcasting Corporation + British Broadcasting Corporation.
• Surowiecki J 2005, The Wisdom of Crowds, Doubleday, London

archi theory

• Contemporary Techniques in Architecture (Architectural Design vol 72 no.1 2002)
• Koolhaas, R 1978, Delirious New York, The Monacelli Press, New York.
• Koolhaas, R 2006, El Croquis 131/132: OMA Rem Koolhaas 1996-2006: Delirious and More, El Croquis, Madrid.
• Hookway, B 1999, Pandemonium – The rise of Predatory Locales in the Postwar World, Princeton Architectural Press, New York