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.
This reader presents students, faculty and practicing architects with an expanded view of technology in architecture that transcends naive determinism...
Convergence is based on the thermodynamic premise that architecture should maximize its ecological and architectural power. No matter how paradoxical it might initially seem, architects should maximize energy intake, maximize energy use, and maximize energy feedback and reinforcement. This presumes that the necessary excess of architecture is in fact an architect's greatest asset when it comes to an agenda for energy, not a liability.
But how do we start to understand the full range of eco-thermodynamic principles which need to be engaged with in order to achieve this?...
Convergence is based on the thermodynamic premise that architecture should maximize its ecological and architectural power. No matter how ...
