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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 the 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