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Re-thinking technology : a reader in architectural theory

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxen Routledge 2007Description: xvi,466,iiipISBN:
  • 0415346541
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  • 720.1 BRA
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CONTENTS Preface viii Acknowledgments ix Introduction xii 1.1901: Frank Lloyd Wright The Art and Craft of the Machine 1 2.1914: Antonio Sant'Elia Manifesto of Futurist Architecture 17 3.1915: Patrick Geddes Paleotechnic and Neotechnic 22 4.1923: Le Corbusier Engineer's Aesthetic and Architecture 32 5.1928: Siegfried Giedion Construction. Industry. Architecture 37 6.1929: Le Corbusier Architecture: The Expression of the Materials and Methods of our Times 42 7.1929: Richard Buckminster Fuller 4D Time Lock 46 8.1929: Knud Lo'nberg-Holm Architecture in the Industrial Age 51 9.1932: Hugo Haring The House as an Organic Structure 55 10.1934: Lewis Mumford Technical Syncretism and Toward an Organic Ideology 57 11.1937: Karel Honzfk Biotechnics: Functional Design and the Vegetable World 63 12.1939: FrederickJ. Kiesler On Correalism and Biotechnique: A Definition and Test of a New Approach to Building Design66 13.1941: Siegfried Giedion Industrialization as a Fundamental Event 80 14.1948: Siegfried Giedion The Assembly Line and Scientific Management 83 15.1950: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Technology and Architecture 113 16.1954/1962: Team 10 The Doom Manifesto 115 17.1954: Richard Neutra Survival Through Design 117 18.1957: Konrad Wachsmann Seven Theses 127 19.1959: Peter Collins The Biological Analogy 129 20.1960: Peter Reyner Banham Functionalism and Technology 138 21.1960: William Katavolos Organics 148 22.1964: Christopher Alexander The Selfconscious Process 151 23.1964: Marshall McLuhan Housing: New Look and New Outlook 161 24.1965: Peter Reyner Banham A Home is not a House 167 25.1969: Richard Buckminster Fuller Comprehensive Propensities 176 26.1969: James R. Boyce What is the Systems Approach? 181 27.1970: Peter Cook Experiment is an Inevitable 188 28.1972: Superstudio Microevent/Microenvironment 195 29.1973: Leopold Kohr Velocity Population 203 30.1973: Paolo Soleri Function Follows Form (Structure Before Performance) 207 31.1976: Ruth Schwartz Cowan The Industrial Revolution in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the 32Twentieth Century 213 33.1977: Kisho Kurokawa The Philosophy of Metabolism 229 34.1979: Philip Steadman What Remains of the Analogy? The History and Science of the Artificial 244 35.1981: Alan Colquhoun Symbolic and Literal Aspects of Technology 265 36.1982: Luis Fernandez-Galiano Organisms and Mechanisms, Metaphors of Architecture 270 37.1985: Steve Ternoey The Patterns of Innovation and Change 290 38.1987: Martin Pawley Technology Transfer 294 39.1988: Bruno Latour Mixing Humans and Nonhumans Together: The Sociology of a Door-Closer 308 40.1988: Peter McCleary Some Characteristics of a New Concept of Technology 325 41.1992: Joseph Rykwert Organic and Mechanical 337 42.1994: Stewart Brand Shearing 350 43.1995: Rem Koolhaas Speculations on Structures and Services 354 44.1995: Felix Guattari Machinic Heterogenesis 358 45.1997: Francis Duffy Time in Office Design 373 46.1997: Paul Virilio The Third Interval 375 47.1999: Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos Techniques: Network Spin, and Diagrams 384 48.1999: Ken Yeang A Theory of Ecological Design 388 49.2000: Bernard Cache Digital Semper 396 50.2002: Manuel De Landa Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture 407 51.2002: David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi Surface Architecture 413 52.2002: William McDonough and Michael Braungart A Brief History of the Industrial Revolution 421 53.2002: William J. Mitchell E-Bodies, E-Buildings, E-Cities 426 54.2003: SLA Changing Speeds 437 55.2004: Manuel Castells Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age 440 Bibliography 457 Index 460

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