- canonical texts as well as contemporary thinking from well known theorists and practitioners, each contribution frames a specific range of technology in relation to society such as building process, products, economies and ecologies
- clearly structured, the book is divided into three parts; each accompanied by a comprehensive introduction by the editors
- an annotated bibliography provides a glossary of further reading
- illustrated throughout with over 100 illustrations.
The book calls for integration, a convergence and confluence of social and technical factors, discovering the capability and culpability of such; for architects to finally realize that the term building systems is best grasped as a verb, not a set of nouns.
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.
- canonical texts as well as contemporary thinking from well known theorists and practitioners, each contribution frames a specific range of technology in relation to society such as building process, products, economies and ecologies
- clearly structured, the book is divided into three parts; each accompanied by a comprehensive introduction by the editors
- an annotated bibliography provides a glossary of further reading
- illustrated throughout with over 100 illustrations.
The book calls for integration, a convergence and confluence of social and technical factors, discovering the capability and culpability of such; for architects to finally realize that the term building systems is best grasped as a verb, not a set of nouns.
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.
Building Systems: Design Technology and Society
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780415617932 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 02/17/2012 |
Pages: | 272 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d) |