Tag: book recommendation
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Book recommendation: Turing’s Cathedral by George Dyson
If you’re interested in the early history of computing, check out Turing’s Cathedral by George Dyson. It covers an interesting middle phase between the original electronic digital computers and the wide commercialization of computers in the late 50s. Specifically it examines the people and development around “the IAS machine” at the Institute for Advanced Study…
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Recommendation: “Citizen 13660” by Miné Okubo
The American internment of Japanese Americans during WWII is one of the many shameful things in my country‘s past that I didn’t really learn about growing up. Only when I moved near a park in Seattle that was on land taken from interned people did I begin to grasp the horror of it. Miné Okubo…
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Book recommendation: Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel by Frances & Joseph Gies
If you’re interested in know “How did we get here?” then I highly recommend Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel by Frances and Joseph Gies. It dispels the myth that Europe of 500 – 1500 CE was some mud-filled backwater just waiting for some brilliant Renaissance thinkers to come along. Don’t get me wrong – it wasn’t…
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Recommendation: Developments in Structural Form by Rowland J. Mainstone
I thought I’d share a book recommendation: Developments in Structural Form by Rowland J. Mainstone. While definitely a textbook from some intro architecture class, it’s also part history book and part architectural engineering primer. It traces how new techniques and materials were put into practice and, like you really want, has lots of pictures. I…