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buildingways is a creative studio focusing on the civic realm Cambridge, MA.

I'm Jeff Goldenson, a designer, educator and cultural producer. I help communities prototype their future.

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bookshelf

• The Last Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools, Stewart Brand
• What can a Body Do?, Sara Hendren
• Sesame Street and the Reform of Children's Television*, Robert Morrow, *I recommend starting here or here
• Explode Every Day, Denise Markonish, from the exhibit
• Get Together, Richardson; Huynh; Sotto
• Notebooks, 1959-1971, Lawrence Halprin
• Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams, Mitchel Resnick
• Computer Lib/Dream Machines, Theodor Nelson
• Expanded Cinema*, Gene Youngblood
*haven't read
• Wabi-Sabi, Leonard Koren
• Extrapolation Factory Operators Manual, Montgomery; Woebkin
• Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, Clark; Davies; Auping
• The Further Adventures in Cardboard Carpentry, Cope; Morrison
• The Puffins Are Back!, Gail Gibbons
• A Kid's Guide to Building Forts, Birdseye; Klein
• Archigram, Alain Guiheux, Centre Georges Pompidou
• How Buildings Learn, Stewart Brand
• The Carpenter's Manifesto, Ehrlich; Mannheimer
• The Serving Library Annual 2017/2018, Serving Library (Project)
• raumlaborberlin: acting in public, Maier; Raumlaborberlin
• Case: Toyo Ito | Sendai Mediatheque, Witte; Kobayashi
• The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945-1976, John Harwood
• A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander
• Black Mountain: an interdisciplinary experiment, 1933-1957, Blume; Felix; Knapstein; Nichols
• Be Here Now, Ram Dass
• Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and His Astonishing Exploratorium, K C Cole
• Centre Pompidou: Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and the making of a modern monument, Francesco Dal Co
• The Making of Beaubourg: a building biography of the Centre Pompidou, Paris., Nathan Silver
• The Dynamic Library, Roth; Schültz
• Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, Lawrence Weschler
• Tools for Conviviality, Ivan Illich
• The RSVP Cycles: creative processes in the human environment, Lawrence Halprin
• The The Experience of Nature: a psychological perspective, Kaplan; Kaplan, dig into this paper and "soft fascination"
• The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World, Lewis Hyde
• Lessons for Students in Architecture, Herman Hertzberger
• Ant Farm: 1968-1976, Lewallen and Seid
• Living Architecture 7: Ant Farm, Felicity Scott