Israeli "operational architects'

Trained better than us in urban design and spatial theories!

Israeli Operational Theory Research Institute (OTRI) (operating in the decade of (1966-2006) run obligatory course for all high-ranking Israeli officers from the different corps of IDF. The school developed a curriculum that trains "operational architects". One of the reading lists of OTRI included the following titles:

Christopher Alexander: The Endless Way of Building: Patterns of Events, Oatterns of Space, Patterns of Language

Gregory Bateson: Steps to An Ecology of Mind and Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity

Beatriz Colomina: Architecture Production

Gilles Deluze and Felix Guattari: A Thousand Plateus and What is Philosophy

Clifford Geertz: After the Fact - Two Countries, Four decades, One Anthropoligist

Catherine Ingraham: Architecture and the Burdens of Linearity

Rob Krier: Architectural Composition

J.F. Lyoatard: The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore: The Meedium in the Message: An Invention of Effects

W.J. Mitchell: The Logic of Architecture

Lewis Mumford: The myth of the Machine

Gordon Pask: Cybernetics of Human Learning

Ilya Prigogine: Is Future Given? The End of Certainty and Exporing Complexity

John Rajchman: The Deluze Connections

Bernard Tschumi: Questions on Space, Architecture and Disjunction and Event-Cities 2

Paul Virilio: The lost Dimension