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Built Environments I (DESST 1006)

e-Research topic 13

Philippe Starck

"In the past two decades" Philippe Starck) "has revolutionised and popularised the formerly rarified world of design". (The Weekend Australian, July3-4, 1999).
Discuss and illustrate with examples of his design work.

REFERENCES

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Saunders, Alan. "Philippe Starck", ABC comfort zone, 25/10/2003
An audio copy of this ABC comfort zone on CD, including the interview with Philippe Starck, is available from your Lecturer.

Gaudoin, Tina. "Starck choice: the world according to Starck", Weekend Australian, 3-4th July 1999, pages 6-7

Books
De Zurko, Edward Robert, "Classical Origins of Functionalism" in Origins of Functionalist Theory. New York, Columbia University Press, 1957. pp.15-31.
Main Collection 720.9 D532

Design and Form: the basic course at the Bauhaus. 3rd ed. New York, Reinhold, 1967.
Main Collection 741 I91.3
Main Collection 707.114322 I91g

Philippe Starck "When Is a Body Not a Body? When It's a Building" in Stud: architectures of masculinity. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1996.

Other Articles
Remember that you can use a number of databases to find articles on the topic. The article listed below is an example, find others through Australia/New Zealand reference centre, ElectricLibrary and LexisNexis. Click here for suggestions for quick ways of effective searching.

Ward, Peter, "Serendipitous materiality", Weekend Australian, 18-19th November 2000, page 20.

The Machine aesthetic
Tzonis, Alexander and Lefaivre, Liane "The Machine in Architectural Thinking", Daidalos, no.18, December 1985, pages 16-26.
Main Collection 705 D132

Benjamin, Walter (trans Zohn, Harry) "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" in Illuminations. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. pages 217-252.
Main Collection 838 B468i.E

Le Corbusier and Fordism
Mc Leod, Mary. "Architecture or Revolution: Taylorism, Technocracy and Social Change", Art journal, vol.43, no.2, 1983, pages 132-147.
Main Collection 705 A781

Taylor, Brian Brace, "Technology, Society and Social Control in Le Corbusier's Cite de Refuge, Paris 1933", Oppositions, no.15-16, 1979, pages 168-185.
Main Collection 720.5 O62

Web sites
Starck homepage

Bauhaus WEIMAR DESSAU 1919-1933

Alessi

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS and HANDBOOKS are useful sources for background information.

Encyclopedia of architecture, design, engineering & construction. Wiley, New York, 1990.
Reference collection 720.3 W682e
"Theory of architecture", vol.4, pages 84-110. "Criticism, Architectural", vol.2, pages 170-182. "Bauhaus", vol.1, pages 414-421. "Gropius, Walter", vol. 2, pages 638-642.

Ching, F. D. K. Visual dictionary of architecture. Wiley, New York, 1997.
Reference collection 720.3 C539v
Instead of an alphabetical listing, the information is clustered around basic aspects of architecture with words placed in their visual context. Included are fundamental terms relating to architectural design, history and technology.

Fleming, J. Penguin dictionary of architecture and landscape architecture. 5th ed. Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1998.
Reference collection 720.1 F597p
"Bauhaus", pages 44-45.

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ARCH - indexes Australian architectural and design journals.   click here for search notes
APA-FT - indexes a range of Australian journals in the social sciences, full text of articles provided from 1995 for some 200 journals.   For search notes see ARCH
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Avery Index - an international index for architectural and design journals. click here for search notes
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