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The following books will be used in the class, and should be purchased.

Tufte, Edward. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 2001. ISBN: 0961392142.

Lockwood, Arthur. Diagrams: A Visual Survey of Graphs, Maps, Charts and Diagrams for the Graphic Designer. New York, NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1969. ISBN: 0289370302.

Kwinter, Sanford. Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN: 0262611813.

Dyson, Anna. "Recombinant Assemblies." Architectural Design 72, no. 5 (2002): 62.

Dyson, George. Baidarka: The Kayak. Portland, OR: Alaska Northwest Books, 1986. ISBN: 088240315X.

Tsamis, Alexandros. Digital Graft: Towards a Non-Homogeneous Materiality. Cambridge, MA: MIT Master's Thesis, 2004.