Technology and Place [electronic resource] : Sustainable Architecture and the Blueprint Farm / Steven A. Moore ; foreword by Kenneth Frampton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Steven A., 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Texas--Laredo--History--20th century.

Architecture.

Farm buildings--Texas--Laredo.

Farm buildings.

Technology--Social aspects--Texas--Laredo.

Technology.

Agricultural innovations--Texas--Laredo.

Agricultural innovations.

Blueprint Farm (Laredo, Tex.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Developing "sustainable" architectural and agricultural technologies was the intent behind Blueprint Farm, an experimental agricultural project designed to benefit farm workers displaced by the industrialization of agriculture in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Yet, despite its promise, the very institutions that created Blueprint Farm terminated the project after just four years (1987-1991). In this book, Steven Moore demonstrates how the various stakeholders' competing definitions of "sustainability," "technology," and "place" ultimately doomed Blueprint Farm. He reconstructs the conflicting interests and goals of the founders, including Jim Hightower and the Texas Department of Agriculture, Laredo Junior College, and the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, and shows how, ironically, they unwittingly suppressed the self-determination of the very farm workers the project sought to benefit. From the instructive failure of Blueprint Farm, Moore extracts eight principles for a regenerative architecture, which he calls his "nonmodern manifesto."

Contents:

""COVER""; ""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""CHAPTER ONE: A QUESTION OF CATEGORIES""; ""Modernity, Technology, and Place""; ""Critical Regionalism""; ""Toward a Nonmodern Alternative""; ""CHAPTER TWO: A RECONSTRUCTION FROM THE FILE""; ""CHAPTER THREE: THE LOCAL HISTORY OF SPACE""; ""Place, Technology, and Technological Networks""; ""La Frontera Chica""; ""Narrowing Horizons of Spatial Discourse""; ""CHAPTER FOUR: CONFLICTING INTENTIONS""; ""The Concept of Intentionality""; ""Networks of Intention""; ""Uninhabited Intentions""

""CHAPTER FIVE: TECHNOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS""""Traditions in Science and Technology Studies""; ""Making Problems Go Away""; ""Democracy and Participation""; ""CHAPTER SIX: RECEPTION""; ""Reception Theory""; ""Mixed Receptions""; ""Received Paradigms""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN: REPRODUCTION""; ""The Production of Facts""; ""Spreading Claims""; ""Sublime Reproductions""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT: EIGHT PROPOSITIONS""; ""Summary Propositions""; ""The Nonmodern Thesis""; ""Eight Points for Regenerative Architecture: A Nonmodern Manifesto""; ""APPENDIX: THE THINGS THEMSELVES""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""INDEX""

""A""""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-253) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-292-73206-6

OCLC:

967540790