Rethinking technology : a reader in architectural theory / edited by William W. Braham and Jonathan A. Hale ; with John Stanislav Sadar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Braham, William W., 1957-

Hale, Jonathan A.

Sadar, John Stanislav

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and technology.

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 466 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, ©2007.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Rethinking Technology is an essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment; providing a convenient single source for all the key texts in the recent literature on architecture and technology. The essays included are chronicles, manifestos, reflections, and theories produced by architects and architectural writers. Arranged in chronological order of original publication, these essays allow comparisons to be made between writings produced in a similar historical context and reveal the discipline's long and close attention to the experience and effects of new technologies, from the early twentieth century to the present day.

With the ever increasing pace of technological change, the fact and condition of change itself has become the subject of architectural discussion, made manifest in organic and dynamic analogies and the use of terms like process, flow, and emergence. Most architects still use the word technology to refer to the different means and methods of building, however in recent years the term has become synonymous with the digital realm and the whole apparatus of computerized information flow. With that change, the tools of design and construction have become a matter of processes, networks and systems. The editors preface each text with a short introduction explaining the significance of the essay in relation to the broader development charted by the book. Cross-references are also made between individual texts in order to highlight important thematic connections across time.

Contents:

Preface Introduction 1901: Frank Lloyd Wright. The Art and Craft of the Machine 1914: Antonio Sant' Elia. Manifesto of Futurist Architecture 1915: Patrick Geddes. Paleotechnic and Neotechnic 1923: Le Corbusier. Engineer¿s Aesthetic and Architecture 1928: Siegfried Giedion. Construction. Industry. Architecture 1929: Le Corbusier. Architecture: The Expression of the Materials and Methods of our Times. 1929: Buckminster Fuller. 4D 1929: Knud Lönberg-Holm. Architecture in the Industrial Age 1932: Hugo Häring. The House as an Organic Structure 1934: Lewis Mumford. Technical Syncretism & Toward an Organic Ideology 1937: Karel Honzik. Biotechnics Functional Design and the Vegetable World 1939: Frederick J. Kiesler. On Correalism and Biotechnique: A Definition and Test of a New Approach to Building Design 1941: Siegfried Giedion. Industrialization as a Fundamental Event 1948: Siegfried Giedion. The Assembly Line and Scientific Management 1950: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Technology and Architecture 1954/1962: Team 10. The Doorn Manifesto. 1954: Richard Neutra. Natural Environment and Performance Guarantees 1957: Konrad Wachsmann. Seven Theses 1959: Peter Collins: The Biological Analogy 1960: Reyner Banham. Functionalism and Technology 1960: William Katavalos. Organics 1964: Christopher Alexander. The Selfconscious Process 1964: Marshall McLuhan. Housing: New Look and New Outlook 1965: Reyner Banham. A Home is not a House. 1969: R. Buckminster Fuller. Comprehensive Propensities 1969: James R. Boyce. What is the Systems Approach? 1970: Peter Cook. Experiment is an inevitable 1972: Superstudio. Microevent/Microenvironment 1973: Leopold Kohr. Velocity Population 1973: Paolo Soleri. FUNCTION FOLLOWS FORM (Structure Before Performance) 1976: Ruth Schwartz Cowan. The Industrial Revolution in the Home 1977: Kisho Kurokawa. The Philosophy of Metabolism 1979: Philip Steadman. What Remains of the [Biological] Analogy? The History and Science of the Artificial 1981: Alan Colquhoun. Symbolic and Literal Aspects of Technology 1982: Luis Fern ndez-Galiano. Organisms and Mechanisms, Metaphors of Architecture 1985: Steve Ternoey. The Patterns of Innovation and Change. 1987: Martin Pawley. Technology Transfer 1988: Bruno Latour. Mixing Humans and Nonhumans Together: The Sociology of a Door-Closer 1988: Peter McCleary. Some Characteristics of a New Concept of Technology 1992: Joseph Rykwert. Organic and Mechanical 1994: Stewart Brand. Shearing 1995: Rem Koolhaas. Last Apples 1995: Felix Guattari. Machinic Heterogenesis 1997: Francis Duffy. Time in Office Design 1997: Paul Virilio. The Third Interval 1999: Ben van Berkel & Caroline Bos. Techniques: Network Spin; Diagrams 1999: Ken Yeang. A Theory of Ecological Design 2000: Bernard Cache. Digital Semper 2002: Manuel De Landa. Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture 2002: David Leatherbarrow & Mohsen Mostafavi. Surface Architecture 2002: William McDonough & Michael Braungart. A Brief History of the Industrial Revolution 2002: William J Mitchell. E-Bodies, E-Buildings, E-Cities 2003: SLA. Changing Speeds 2004: Manuel Castells. Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age Sources 820.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-459) and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780203624333

0203624335

Publisher Number:

99984025280

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