Ätzende Architekturmetaphern

On JAX 2013 I gave a talk "Ätzende Architekturmetaphern". The main thesis was that software architecture has arrived at a point very similar to one in the history of urbanism, where two main streams merged. The one coming from the tradition of society, the "organic" one. The other coming from the machine age and functionalism, the "mechanical one". Via a short detour over emergence, a new kind of theory materialized - what Vidler called "the third typology". It lead to a new approach of "bottom-up" research, cumulating in the analysis of informal architectures, i.e. slums. This new way of critical theory could very well apply to the current state of our profession, where we are looking for a way to include resilience, rhizomatic structures, information flows, evolutionary design and agility into our architecture.

As Prezi does not feature longer transcripts, this is the reading list (received on April 25th 2013):

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• Dobelli : http://www.dobelli.com/kontakt/klarer_denken_textauszug
• In Zeit Nr. 17 / 2013: http://www.zeit.de/2013/17/nassim-taleb-rolf-dobelli
• Mencken 1920 : http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken
• Johnson 1954 : http://www.mediaarchitecture.at/architekturtheorie/philip_johnson/2011_philip_johnson_crutches_en.shtml
• Carpo 2011 : http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/alphabet-and-algorithm
• Howell 1902 : http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/howard.htm
• Similar Evolution : http://www.theatlanticcities.com/design/2012/11/evolution-urban-planning-10-diagrams/3851/
• Wright 1943 : http://www.steinerag.com/flw/Books/a0303.htm#Auto
• Corbusier, Precisions 1960 : http://books.google.de/books/about/Precisions_on_the_present_state_of_archi.html?id=I8ZPAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
• Corbusier 1930 : http://highwaysofthemind.com/futurama/bychapter/futuc/futuc3note2.html
• Buckminster-Fuller 1967 : http://www.bfi.org/about-bucky/buckys-big-ideas
• Whole Earth Catalog and it's connection to Apple : http://www.hkw.de/en/programm/2013/the_whole_earth/veranstaltungen_83124/veranstaltungsdetail_87732.php?calmonth=2013-08&month=2013-08&bcal=1 and http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/data/book/computingandthenet/9780226817415/from-counterculture-to-cyberculture-stewart-brand-the-whole-earth-network-and-the-rise-of-digital-utopianism
• Gamma et al 1995 : http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=186897
• Fowler 2003 : http://martinfowler.com/books/eaa.html
• Koenig 1995 : http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Software_Engineering/Architecture/Anti-Patterns
• Alexander 1977 : http://www.patternlanguage.com/leveltwo/ca.htm
• Linnaeus (Class) : http://palaeos.com/taxonomy/linnaean/class.htm
• Durrand / Laugier (Patterns) : http://www.jayebee.com/creations/archtypology/archetypology4_french_tradition.htm
• NATO 1968 : http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/NATOReports/
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• Brooks 1975 : The Mythical Man Month http://www.addison-wesley.de/9780201835953.html (and others)
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• Vogel et al. 2009 : Sofware-Architektur: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-8274-2267-5/page/1
• Beck & Andres 2005 : Extreme Programming Explained http://www.addison-wesley.de/main/main.asp?page=home/bookdetails&ProductID=95830
• Winograd 1996 : Bringing Design to Software http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/bds/
• Buschmann et al 2007 : On Patterns and Pattern Languages http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471486485.html
• Tufte / Death by Powerpoint : http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint
• Booch 2009 : Handbook of Software Architecture http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-gbooch
• Fairbanks 2010 : Just enough Software Architecture http://rhinoresearch.com/book
• Kruchten et al 2006 : The Past, Present and Future of Software Architecture http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/so/2006/02/s2022-abs.html
• Vitruv / Vitruvian Man : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian_Man
• Hackers and Painters : http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html
• Software Craftmanship : http://manifesto.softwarecraftsmanship.org/ und http://www.softwerkskammer.de/
• Coding the Architecture : https://leanpub.com/software-architecture-for-developers
• Dirk Riehle / How Buildings Learn : http://dirkriehle.com/2012/10/20/software-architecture-is-a-poor-metaphor/
• Beck & Fowler 2001 : Planning Extreme Programming http://martinfowler.com/books/pxp.html
• Fowler 2000 : Is Design Dead? http://martinfowler.com/articles/designDead.html
• Johnson 2001 : Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/oct/15/society
• Hofmeister et al 2000 : Applied Software Architecture  http://www.mypearsonstore.com/bookstore/applied-software-architecture-9780201325713
• Herz 2012 : From Camp to City http://www.manuelherz.com/from-camp-to-city
• Erlang Design Principles : http://www.erlang.org/documentation/doc-4.9.1/doc/design_principles/des_princ.html
• Mark Reinold on Jigsaw : http://mreinhold.org/blog/late-for-the-train
• Emily Tanaka-Delgado on Node.js : http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/07/11/evolving-the-node-js-brand/
• Fielding on REST : http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm
• ZapThink 2006 : http://www.zapthink.com/2006/12/11/the-legoreg-model-of-soa/
• Lego Serious Play : http://www.seriousplay.com/
• Heidegger 1971 : Building, Dwelling, Thinking in http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415415170/
• Vidler 1978 : “The Third Typology” in Nesbitt, Theorizing a new agenda for architecture http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781568980539
• Ellin 1996 : Postmodern Urbanism, http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781568981352
• Archivo Superstudio : Archivio Superstudio: The Continuous Monument, An Architectural Model For Total Urbanisation, Firenze 1969 http://www.megastructure-reloaded.org/de/superstudio/
• Lebbeus Woods, San Francisco Project : http://www.archdaily.com/316687/sfmoma-lebbeus-woods-architect/
• Yona Friedman : http://www.yonafriedman.nl/
• Chandigarh by Iwan Baan : http://www.archdaily.com/128084/living-with-modernity-brasilia%E2%80%94changdigarh-iwan-baan/
• Vertical Slum by Adam Fry : http://www.pulsamerica.co.uk/2012/10/25/torre-david-vertical-slum/
• Western Cities (e.g. München, Barcelona) : http://www.mobgenic.com/2012/12/29/tata-kota-yang-rapi-dan-indah-di-eixample-barcelona/
• Eastern Cities (Tatami Mats) : http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/quick-history-tatami-matsretro-154420
• Richard Cook : How compex systems fail via http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/12/3/resiliency-is-the-new-normal-a-deep-look-at-what-it-means-an.html
• Todd Hoff 2012 : http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/12/31/designing-for-resiliency-will-be-so-2013.html
• Geoffrey West 2011 : http://longnow.org/seminars/02011/jul/25/why-cities-keep-growing-corporations-always-die-and-life-gets-faster/
• Jane Jacobs 1961 : The Death and Life of Great American Cities e.g. http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/17/reviews/jacobs.html
• Doug Saunders 2011 : Arrival City, http://www.randomhouse.de/Buch/Arrival-City/Doug-Saunders/e280019.rhd
• Joi Ito 2012 : Via Wired http://www.wired.com/business/2012/06/resiliency-risk-and-a-good-compass-how-to-survive-the-coming-chaos/
• Urquhart 2013 : http://gigaom.com/2013/01/27/devops-complexity-and-anti-fragility-in-it-stability-and-resilience/
• Holling 1996 : (in Urquhart 2013)
• Jeff Sussna 2013 : Manifesto for 21st-Centurty IT http://blog.ingineering.it/post/39385342347/21st-century-it-manifesto
• Sterling 2013 : Via Wired http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2013/04/antifragile-system-design-principles/
• Takuro Hoshino, London 2000 : Via Franz Sdouz http://www.mediaarchitecture.at/architekturtheorie/philip_johnson/2011_philip_johnson_crutches_en.shtml
• Ruth Malan 2013 : What it Takes To be a Great Enterprise Architect http://www.ruthmalan.com/journal/journalcurrent.htm
• Tufte 2002 : http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/minard
• Heiko’s Big Map : http://www.imapping.info/heikos-big-map/
• Agile Software Architecture Sketches by Simon Brown : http://www.codingthearchitecture.com/2013/04/16/agile_software_architecture_sketches_and_nouml.html
• Jeff Scott : Urbanism as a poor metaphor http://blogs.forrester.com/jeff_scott/10-05-03-let%E2%80%99s_get_beyond_tired_out_of_date_ea_metaphors