Industries of architecture / edited by Katie Lloyd Thomas, Tilo Amhoff and Nick Beech.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lloyd Thomas, Katie, editor.

Amhoff, Tilo, editor.

Beech, Nick, editor.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Series:

Critiques ; v. 11.

Critiques : critical studies in architectural humanities ; volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural practice.

Architecture--Economic aspects.

Architecture.

Industries--Social aspects.

Industries.

Physical Description:

xx, 345 pages ; 25 cm.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

At a time when the technologies and techniques of producing the built environment are undergoing significant change, this book makes central architecture's relationship to industry. Contributors turn to historical and theoretical questions, as well as to key contemporary developments, taking a humanities approach to the Industries of Architecturethat will be of interest to practitioners and industry professionals, as much as to academic researchers, teachers and students. How has modern architecture responded to mass production? How do we understand the necessarily social nature of production in the architectural office and on the building site? And how is architecture entwined within wider fields of production and reproduction--finance capital, the spaces of regulation, and management techniques? What are the particular effects of techniques and technologies (and above all their inter-relations) on those who labour in architecture, the buildings they produce, and the discursive frameworks we mobilise to understand them? ve frameworks we mobilise to understand them?

Contents:

Architecture and the Representation of Industry

Architecture Responds to Industry

The Construction Site

The Work of Architects

Economy

Law and Regulation

Technologies and Techniques

Contemporary Questions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

9781138946811

1138946818

9781138946828

1138946826

OCLC:

912378788