Design technics : archaeologies of architectural practice / Zeynep Çelik Alexander and John May, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alexander, Zeynep Çelik, editor.

May, John (Architect), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural design.

Architecture and technology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 262 pages)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"This edited collection seeks to historicize and theorize technology's role in architectural design. Arguing that the technical tools of design have often been flattened into the broader celebratory rhetoric of innovation, the volume editors and contributors seek to situate these tools on a broader epistemological canvas. How do these tools reflect architecture's changing relationship to evidence: from an emphasis on historical forms and traditions leading up to the 20th Century to a reliance on scientific and empirical data in the 21st. Organized around eight design techniques- rendering, scanning, modeling, controlling, specifying, networking, imaging, and lodging - this project blends discourses in architecture, media studies, history of technology and philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : Architecture and Technics / Zeynep Çelik Alexander

Rendering : On Experience and Experiments / Lucia Allais

Modeling : A Secret History of Following / Matthew C. Hunter

Scanning : A Technical History of Form / Zeynep Çelik Alexander

Equipping : Domestic Sleights of Hand / Edward A. Eigen

Specifying : The Generality of Clerical Labor / Michael Osman

Positioning : Architecture of Logistics / John Harwood

Repeating : Cybernetic Intelligence / Orit Halpern

Afterword : Architecture in Real Time / John May.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 24, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Design technics.

ISBN:

9781452960593

1452960593

9781452960609

1452960607

OCLC:

1104853636

Publisher Number:

10.5749/j.ctvtv938x

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.