Books

01 (2016). Christenson, Mike. Beginning Design Technology. New York: Routledge.

Journal Articles

01 (2017). Christenson, Mike. “Critical Dimensions in Architectural Photography: Contributions to Architectural Knowledge.” In Architecture_MPS, v. 11, no. 2, p. 1-17.

02 (2017). Christenson, Mike. “Kinds of Designing and Their Functions in Analyzing.” In International Journal of Technology and Design Education, v. 27, no. 4, p. 611–626.

03 (2016). Christenson, Mike. “Research Notes: The Photographic Construction of Urban Renewal in Fargo, North Dakota.” In Buildings & Landscapes 23.2, Fall 2016, p. 116-128.

04 (2014). Christenson, Mike. “Isovist-based occlusion maps representing critical variations in Le Corbusier’s Museum of Unlimited Extension.” In Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, v.41, no. 11, p. 39-52.

05 (2012). Christenson, Mike, and Malini Foobalan, “Spherical mapping of a perforated-wall model.” In Architectoni.ca, v. 1, p. 14-22.

06 (2011). Christenson, Mike. “‘From the unknown to the known’: Transitions in the architectural vernacular.” In Buildings & Landscapes 18.1, 1-13.

07 (2011). Christenson, Mike. “On the architectural structure of photographic space.” In Architectural Science Review 54.2, 93-100.

08 (2010). Christenson, Mike. “Registering visual permeability in architecture: Isovists and occlusion maps in Autolisp.” In Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 37 (6), 1128-1136. [doi:10.1068/b36076]

09 (2009). Christenson, Mike. “Testing the Relevance of Parameterization to Architectural Epistemology.” In Architectural Science Review 52 (2), 135-141. [doi: 10.3763/asre.2009.0022]

10 (2009). Christenson, Mike. “On dependencies between architecture and media: Considering the remote work.” In ARCC Journal 5 (1), 6-15. J. Brooke Harrington and Anijo Punnen Mathew, editors.

11 (2006). Christenson, Mike. “Accident and predictability: An analytical methodology for persistent forces in the American city.” In ARCC Journal 3 (2), 9-14. J. Brooke Harrington and David J. Perkes, editors.

Book Chapters

01 (2013). Christenson, Mike. “Scripting parasites: exchanges in the architecture studio.” In Unconventional Computing: Design Methods for Adaptive Architecture, Rachel Armstrong and Simone Ferracina, editors. (Toronto: Riverside Press)

Conference Papers

01 (2017). Christenson, Mike. “Parasitical Analysis in the Built Environment: Scales of Complexity.” In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), Ryan Smith, Keith Diaz Moore, and Windy Zhao, Editors, p. 72-79.

02 (2017). Christenson, Mike. “Photography in the Urban Renewal Toolkit: The Case of Pruitt-Igoe.” In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), Ryan Smith, Keith Diaz Moore, and Windy Zhao, Editors, p. 155-163.

03 (2016). Christenson, Mike. “On the Construction of Digital Models and the (Non-)Significance of Gravity.” In Communicating Speculative and Creative Thinking (Proceedings of the 2016-2016 Design Communication Association Biennial Conference), Steven P. Juroszek, Editor, p. 185-189.

04 (2016). Christenson, Mike. “Current Questions on Parasitical Analysis of Architectural Form.” In Communicating Speculative and Creative Thinking (Proceedings of the 2016-2016 Design Communication Association Biennial Conference), Steven P. Juroszek, Editor, p. 79-83.

05 (2016). Christenson, Mike and Malini Srivastava. “Additive Manufacturing: A Convergence of Form and Material in the Digital Age.” In Communicating Speculative and Creative Thinking (Proceedings of the 2016-2016 Design Communication Association Biennial Conference), Steven P. Juroszek, Editor, p. 303-309.

06 (2016). Christenson, Mike and Malini Srivastava. “Passive House Design-Build: Generative Full-Scale Pedagogy.” In Proceedings, 2016 Passive and Low-Energy Architecture Conference.

07 (2016). Christenson, Mike. “Le Corbusier’s Museum of Unlimited Extension: Spirals and Occlusion Maps.” In Shaping New Knowledges (Proceedings, 104th ACSA Annual Meeting). (In Press.)

08 (2015). Srivastava, Malini, Peter Atwood, and Mike Christenson. ”Design-Build as a Reversal of Professional Practice,” in Working Out: Thinking While Building (Proceedings, ACSA Fall 2014 Conference), Ted Cavanagh, Ursula Hartig, and Susan Palleroni, eds., p. 628-636.

09 (2014). Christenson, Mike. “Comprehensive Parasites.” In Rethinking Comprehensive Design: Speculative Counterculture (Proceedings, 19th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan), p. 771-780.

10 (2014). Christenson, Mike. “Making architecture ‘thinkable’: A drawing course in beginning design.” In Proceedings, 30th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, Illinois Institute of Technology, p. 31-36.

11 (2013). Aly Ahmed, Bakr, Mike Christenson, and David Crutchfield. “Expanding the learning experience: the integration of technology into architectural education.” In Proceedings, 2013 American Society for Engineering Education North Midwest Section Conference, p. 381-387.

12 (2013). Aly Ahmed, Bakr,  Khaled Nassar, and Mike Christenson. “A verbal communication game for architecture, engineering and construction students.” In Proceedings, 2013 American Society for Engineering Education North Midwest Section Conference, p. 388-396.

13 (2013). Benke, Brad and Mike Christenson. “Differentiation as a form of knowledge production in architecture.” In The Visibility of Research (Proceedings of the 2013 ARCC Spring Research Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 2013), Chris Jarrett, Kyoung-Hee Kim, and Nick Senske, editors, p. 207-213.

14 (2012). Christenson, Mike. “Mixing algorithms in urban analysis and transformation.” In Cites in Transformation: Research and Design (Proceedings of the EAAE/ARCC International Conference on Architectural Research, Milan, Italy, June 7-10 2012, p. 578-581.

15 (2012). Christenson, Mike. “Breaking the box: Beginning design technology.” In Proceedings, 28th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, The Pennsylvania State University, March 2012, p. 53-58.

16 (2011). Christenson, Mike. “Parametric variation revealing architectural untranslatability.” In Parametricism (SPC): ACADIA 2011 Regional Conference Proceedings, 267-273.

17 (2010). Christenson, Mike. “Photography and the vicarious experience: Implications on urban safety?” In Proceedings, YAF-2010, Indian Institute of Architects Young Architects’ Festival, Jaipur, India. CD-ROM.

18 (2010). Christenson, Mike (2010). “On the architectural structure of photographic space.” In On the border: Architectural science in theory & practice (Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Sciences Association, UNITEC Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand), CD-ROM.

19 (2010). Christenson, Mike. “Digitally cultivating the accident in urban analysis.” In Architecture in the age of digital reproduction: Proceedings of the 2008 West Central ACSA Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Architecture, CD-ROM. Erik M. Hemingway and Allison Warren, editors. (Presented 2008; published 2010.)

20 (2010). Christenson, Mike. “Spaces of photography: The digital translatability of old ways of seeing.” In Architecture in the age of digital reproduction: Proceedings of the 2008 West Central ACSA Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Architecture, CD-ROM. Erik M. Hemingway and Allison Warren, editors. (Presented 2008; published 2010.)

21 (2009). Christenson, Mike. “On the use of occlusion maps to examine additions to existing buildings.” In reForm: Building a Better Tomorrow (Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, October 2009, Chicago, Illinois), 267-269.

22 (2009). Christenson, Mike. “Google Street View and the transition from the unknown to the known.” In Chang[e]ing Identities: Design Culture Technology (Proceedings of the 2009 ACSA Southwest Regional Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico), 76-81. Kathryn Holliday, editor. (Presented 2009; published 2010.)

23 (2008). Christenson, Mike. “Questioning the primacy of visual simulation in an epistemology of digital models.” In Architecture “in computro” (Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, September 17-19, 2008, Higher Institute of Architectural Sciences, University College of Antwerp, Belgium), 889-895. Marc Muylle, editor.

24 (2008). Christenson, Mike. “On the relevance of parameterization to architectural epistemology.” In Innovation, Inspiration, and Instruction: New Knowledge in the Architectural Sciences (Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Sciences Association, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia), 1-7. Ning Gu, Leman Figen Gul, Michael J. Ostwald, and Anthony Williams, editors.

25 (2008). Christenson, Mike and Mark Barnhouse. “Structure, memory, and visibility.” In Material Matters: Making Architecture (2008 West Fall Conference Proceedings, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture West Regional Conference, October 2008, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California), 50-57. Gail Peter Borden and Michael Meredith, editors.

26 (2008). Christenson, Mike. “Capabilities and limitations of Autodesk Revit in a construction technology course.” In Proceedings of the 2006 Building Technology Educators’ Symposium, August 3-5, 2006, University of Maryland, School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, 55-62. Deborah J. Oakley and Ryan E. Smith, editors.

27 (2007). Christenson, Mike. “Ownership and media: The architectural case study as an articulation of 16 stance.” In Flow, Filter, Function, Feeling, and Focus (Proceedings, Design Communication Association 20th Anniversary Conference, 12-15 September 2007, Ball State University), 247-258. Michel A. Mounayar, German T. Cruz, and Cheryl Bove, editors.

28 (2007). Christenson, Mike and Bakr Aly Ahmed. “The good, bad, and ugly in architectural case studies.” In Flux: Design education in a changing world (Proceedings of the 5th International DEFSA Conference, 3-5 October 2007, Cape Town, South Africa, ISBN 978-0-620-39561-8), CD-ROM.

29 (2007). Christenson, Mike. “Architectural knowledge and iterative mediating artifacts.” In Flux: Design education in a changing world (Proceedings of the 5th International DEFSA Conference, 3-5 October 2007, Cape Town, South Africa, ISBN 978-0-620-39561-8), CD-ROM.

30 (2007). Christenson, Mike. “Stewardship and mediating artifacts: Forwarding the incomplete.” In Assuming Responsibility: 2007 ACSA Southeast Conference Proceedings, October 11-13, 2007, The Catholic University of America, Washington DC, 213-217. Luis Eduardo Boza and Michelle A. Rinehart, editors.

31 (2007). Christenson, Mike. “The architecture school building structuring perception of the city.” In City/Campus: Proceedings of the 2007 ACSA Central Fall Conference, October 19-21, 2007, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, 5.3-5.11. Rick Haldenby and Jeff Lederer, editors.

32 (2007). Christenson, Mike. “Re-representation of urban imagery: Strategies for constructing knowledge.” In Expanding Bodies: Art, Cities, Environment (Proceedings of the ACADIA 2007 Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 1-7, 2007), 212-219. Brian Lilley and Philip Beesley, editors.

33 (2007). Christenson, Mike. “Memory, periphery, and globalization: The freeway and construction of knowledge.” In Regional Architecture and Identity in the Age of Globalization (Proceedings of The Second International Conference of the Center for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region), Volume III, 807-817. Jamal Al-Qawasmi, Abdesselem Mahmoud, Ali Djerbi, editors.

34 (2006). Christenson, Mike. “Confidence in the presence of conflict: Digital and analog media in architectural representation.” In Proceedings, Design Communications in Architecture Biannual Conference, 2005-2006, 55-64.

35 (2005). Christenson, Mike and Malini Srivastava. “A proposal for a cross-disciplinary design pedagogy: Generative full-scale investigations.” In Proceedings, International Conference on Design Education: Tradition and Modernity, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, 231-238.

36 (2005). Christenson, Mike. “Productive accident in student analysis of urban form and space.” In The Reach of Research: Proceedings of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium National Conference on Architectural Research, Jackson, Mississippi, April 6-9, 2005, James L. West, David J. Perkes, and Anne H. Howell, editors, CD-ROM.

37 (2005). Christenson, Mike (2005). “Accident and predictability: An analytical methodology for persistent forces in the American city.” In The Reach of Research: Proceedings of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium National Conference on Architectural Research, Jackson, Mississippi, April 6-9, 2005, James L. West, David J. Perkes, and Anne H. Howell, editors, CD-ROM.

38 (2005). Christenson, Mike. “Promoting conditions for productive accident.” In Encounters, Encuentros, Recontres (Proceedings of the 2005 ACSA International Conference), Mexico City, Mexico, 279-283.

Reviews

01 (2011). Christenson, Mike. “Review: Census of Places that Matter.” In Buildings & Landscapes 18 (2), p. 120-122.

M. Arch. Thesis

01 (1997). Christenson, Mike. “The Minneapolis Milling District Archive.”