RESOURCES

WORKSHOP FILES
WORKSHOP 1: Rhino Charts, Google Earth export, gHowl plugin
WORKSHOP 3: Grasshopper Analytical tools & “remote control:” .GHX .3DM
WORKSHOP 4: Grasshopper conditional (“if/then”) & Boolean tools .GHX .3dm
WORKSHOP 5: Grasshopper Vector & gradient tools.GHX .3dm
Google Earth Download
Grasshopper Update (9.0014)
Bongo 2.0 Download (free beta version of animation plugin for Rhino)
GHowl Download (plug-in for GH to import/export Excel)
Microsoft Open XML Download (necessary to have Excel talk to GH)
Jing (free screencast software: SWF files)

RESEARCH AIDES
TinEye Reverse Image Search: resist blog-o-slob habits & properly cite/attribute your research
JStor: read GreyRoom, Assemblage, JAE, and other prominent journals from the safety of your safe room
The Personal Brain: Mind mapping software: instant ideogram!
Chicago Manual of Style: Quick guide for academic citation best practices.
Evernote: Use it, love it.

LINKS
BLDGBLOG: required reading!
Crisis Fronts: fascinating parallel thesis group from Pratt
Mammoth: Excellent blog on infrastructure, or what they term “parainfrastructure”
EcoRedux: Very comprehensive archive of relevant precedent projects, mostly from the 1960s & 70s
TRIZ
RAND Corporation: Classic White Papers
Near Future Laboratory: Drift Deck
Brian Eno: Oblique Strategies
MIT: The Beer Game
Columbia GSAPP: C-Lab
Rudi.net Urban Development White Papers
Co-Zine (well-curated Tumblr site with some helpful “Method” sources)
Mega-Cities Project
Columbia GSAPP Studio: Experiments in Motion

GRASSHOPPER/RHINO
Exporting Google Earth direct from Rhino
Grasshopper Main Site: Download latest version, Discussion, Tutorials,etc.
Digital toolbox: Intro Grasshopper Videos: Basic, Intermediate
Generative Design in GH: PDF Instruction Manual
Grasshopper Primer: PDF Instruction Manual
GH Intro Video, incl. Excel integration
Lists & Data Trees
Randomness & Concatenation

AVERY PERIODICALS
Log
Perspecta
Grey Room
Assemblage
Praxis
Ottano
AD
Arbhare
Cabinet
Quaderns