My Sources and Initial Ideas

3 Books on Design
- Ishii, Kazuo. Membrane Designs and Structures in the World. Japan: Shinkenchiku-sha, 1999.
This book shows examples of architecture that uses membrane structures, once called tent structures. They provide the same safety levels as traditional structural methods but they facilitate framing of large spaces and create bright interior spaces.
- Rashid, Hani and Couture, Lise Anne. Asymptote: Flux. London: Phaidon Press, 2002.
Asymptote is a firm that draws inspiration on from things like the organic systems of transformation, and their projects are concerned with change and fluctuating conditions, like motion, light, speed and traversing virtual boundaries. They deal with experimental and speculative works, using new technologies with "intelligent" materials with the aim to create meaningful and inspired spacial experiences.
- Randl, Chad. Revolving Architecture: A history of buildings that rotate, swivel and pivot. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008.
This book explores the history of rotating structures and devices, which all share one general characteristic: they all turn on an upright, vertical axis. The types of buildings talked about in this text include houses, apartments, theatres and jails. The text makes the point that although the views were designed to change and the walls designed to move, up remained up and down remained down, but this may change in the future.

3 Books on More Technical Aspect of Complex Geometry
- Burry, Jane and Mark. The New Mathematics of Architecture. London: Thames and Hudson, 2010.
This was one of the most useful sources so far, and a very interesting book about several different types of mathematics in design and included architectural examples as well. Some of the topics covered are 'Mathematical Surfaces and Seriality', 'Topology', and 'Chaos, Complexity, Emergence', and the book talks about the possible future of mathematical thinking on the built environment in the years to come, showing exciting new ideas for spaces all around the world, those already built and those not yet.
- Douglis, Evan. Autogenic Structures. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2009.
"We obtain new means of inventing dwelling, new visions of the future forms of human settlements". This book explores ideas about continuity in architectural forms, instability of support to take advantage of disequilibrium and about surfaces strung together until they invert, and contains several images that catch your eye and compel you to think about how a piece of architecture might be constructed using the systems and shapes in the renders.
- Gregory, Paola. New Scapes: Territories of Complexity. Basel: Birkhauser, 2002.
The most interesting concept discussed in this book in my opinion was the chapter on Field-Scapes, The Mobius Effect, as it talked about things like the Mobius Strip and that it is assumed to be a 'non-orientable surface', and exploring the possibility of using this idea for architectural spaces, making them orientable.