Building Systems: Design Technology and Society

ISBN-13: 9780415617949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str.

Kiel Moe

Opis

This reader presents students, faculty and practicing architects with an expanded view of technology in architecture that transcends naive determinisms and technocratic applications, forming a more pithy intellectual context for the complex and contingent roles of technology in twenty-first century architecture.

Spis treści

Prologue.  Introduction:  Systems, Technics, and Society  Part 1: Building Systems  1. Construction History: Between Technological and Cultural History  2. How the Introduction of Iron in Construction changed and Developed Thought Patterns in Design  3. Retrofitting and Redacting Masonry Engineering  4. Building Systems/Building Territories: Industrialized Housing Delivery and the Role of the Architect  Part 2: Building Economies  5. "Architecture or Revolution": Taylorism, Technocracy, and Social Change  6. Glass and Light: The Influence of Interior Illumination on the "Chicago School"  7. Obsolescence: Notes Towards a History  8. Risky Business, Fishy Forms  Part 3: Building Ecologies  9. Household Conditioning (If You are Cold, Put on a Sweater)  10. A House within a House  11. Architectural Production and Sociotechnical Codes: A Theoretical Framework