Building Systems: Design Technology and Society

We can no longer view building components as artifacts (a brick or a boiler) or as autonomous systems (air conditioning or prefabrication). Rather these components and systems are part of much larger systems of which architects are one agent. This book will help architects more broadly envision these networks including :

• canonical texts as well as contemporary thinking from well known theorists and practitioners, each contribution frames a specific range of technology in relation to s...