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082 _a720.7
_bDUT
100 _aDutta, Arindam & others eds.
245 _aSecond modernism
_bMIT, architecture and the techno-social moment
260 _aLondon
_bMIT Press
_c2013
300 _avi,916p.
500 _aCONTENTS Ix Acknowledgments Introduction 01 Linguistics, Not Grammatology: Architecture's A Prioris and Architecture's Priorities Arindam Dutta Humanities 72 The MIT Chapel: An Interdiscursive History Reinhold Martin Sponsorship 106 How Useful? The Stakes of Architectural History, Theory and Criticism at MIT, 1945-1976 John Harwood 144 The Middleman: Kepes's Instruments Anna Vallye 188 Centerbeam: Art of the Environment Matthew Wisnioski 226 The Pedagogy of Prefabr-ication: Building Research at MIT in the Postwar Avigail Sachs 252 Experimental Dwellings: Modern Architecture and Environmental Research at the MIT Solar Energy Fund, 1938-1963 Daniel A. Barber The City 288 From Master-Planning to Self-Build: The MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, 1959-1971 Eric Mumford 310 Fuzzy Images: The Problem of Third World Development and the New Ethics of Open-Ended Planning at the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies M. Ijlal Muzaffar 342 DISCOURSE, SEEK, INTERACT: Urban Systems at MIT Felicity D. Scott 394 Disoriented: Kevin Lynch, around 1960 Hashim Sarkis Systems 436 Predictive Machines: Data, Computer Maps, and Simulation Catherine R McMahon 474 Alexander's Choice: How Architecture Avoided Computer-Aided Design c. 1962 Alise Upitis 506 Artist/System Caroline A. Jones 550 The Alternative Firmitas of Maurice Smith Mark Jarzombek Networks 578 CASE and MIT: Engagement Stanford O. Anderson 652 Two Cambridges: Models, Methods, Systems, and Expertise Mary Louise Lobsinger 686 Toward a "Nation of Universities:" Architecture and Planning Education at MIT circa the 1940s Memories 718 1955-1956 : Bigraphy of a year in graduate School Julian Beinart 740 Three Episodes, Three Roles William L. Porter 770 Arts/Science/Technology : Otto Piene in interview with Matthew Wisnioski 794 We were Bricoleurs : Nicholas Negroponte in interview with Molly Wright Steenson 810 Structure-Infill, Wittgenstein and other Matters N. John Habraken in interview with Alexander D’Hooghe And Arindam Dutta Brendan D. Moran Memoirs 718 1955-1956: Biography of a Year in Graduate School Julian Beinart , , , 740 Three Episodes, Three Roles William L. Porter 770 Arts/Science/Technology : Otto Piene in interview with Matthew Wisnioski 794 We Were Bricoleurs: Nicholas Negroponte in interview with Molly Wright Steenson 810 Structure-Infill, Wittgenstein, and Other Matters: N. John Habraken, in interview with Alexander D'Hooghe and Arindam Dutta Caveat 840 Newton's Apple Tree: A Non-Standard Version Edward Eigen 884 A "Techno-Social" Timeline 898 Contributors 904 Illustration Credits 905 Index
890 _aUnited Kingdom
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