Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory

by Braham; William W.

• ISBN13: 9780415346535
• ISBN10: 0415346533
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book will be an essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment. It provides a convenient single source for all the key texts in the fast developing discipline of the philosophy of technology. It focuses on the interplay between technology and society and considers the impact of technology on fields as diverse as: art and visual culture; politics, the environment, gender and the hottest topic of all in today's digitally mediated world - the promise of a virtual future inside the fluid 'space' of the computer.Each section is introduced with a brief critical commentary, situating the readings in a historical and theoretical context. The collection draws on the work of many of the key figures in twentieth century philosophy and cultural theory, including Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Marshall McLuhan, Jean Baudrillard and Paul Virilio as well as a range of writers at the cutting-edge of contemporary digital culture such Manuel de Landa, Marcos Novak and Hubert Dreyfus.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xii
1901: The Art and Craft of the Machine	p. 1
1914: Manifesto of Futurist Architecture	p. 17
1915: Paleotechnic and Neotechnic	p. 22
1923: Engineer's Aesthetic and Architecture	p. 32
1928: Construction. Industry. Architecture	p. 37
1929: Architecture: The Expression of the Materials and Methods of our Times	p. 42
1929: 4D Time Lock	p. 46
1929: Architecture in the Industrial Age	p. 51
1932: The House as an Organic Structure	p. 55
1934: Technical Syncretism and Toward an Organic Ideology	p. 57
1937: Biotechnics: Functional Design and the Vegetable World	p. 63
1939: On Correalism and Biotechnique: A Definition and Test of a New Approach to Building Design	p. 66
1941: Industrialization as a Fundamental Event	p. 80
1948: The Assembly Line and Scientific Management	p. 83
1950: Technology and Architecture	p. 113
1954/1962: The Doorn Manifesto	p. 115
1954: Survival Through Design	p. 117
1957: Seven Theses	p. 127
1959: The Biological Analogy	p. 129
1960: Functionalism and Technology	p. 138
1960: Organics	p. 148
1964: The Selfconscious Process	p. 151
1964: Housing: New Look and New Outlook	p. 161
1965: A Home is not a House	p. 167
1969: Comprehensive Propensities	p. 176
1969: What is the Systems Approach?	p. 181
1970: Experiment is an Inevitable	p. 188
1972: Microevent/Microenvironment	p. 195
1973: Velocity Population	p. 203
1973: Function Follws Form (Structure Before Performance)	p. 207
1976: The "Industrial Revolution" in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the Twentieth Century	p. 213
1977: The Philosophy of Metabolism	p. 229
1979: What Remains of the Analogy? The History and Science of the Artificial	p. 244
1981: Symbolic and Literal Aspects of Technology	p. 265
1982: Organisms and Mechanisms, Metaphors of Architecture	p. 270
1985: The Patterns of Innovation and Change	p. 290
1987: Technology Transfer	p. 294
1988: Mixing Humans and Nonhumans Together: The Sociology of a Door-Closer	p. 308
1988: Some Characteristics of a New Concept of Technology	p. 325
1992: Organic and Mechanical	p. 337
1994: Shearing	p. 350
1995: Speculations on Structures and Services	p. 354
1995: Machinic Heterogenesis	p. 358
1997: Time in Office Design	p. 373
1997: The Third Interval	p. 375
1999: Techniques: Network Spin, and Diagrams	p. 384
1999: A Theory of Ecological Design	p. 388
2000: Digital Semper	p. 396
2002: Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture	p. 407
2002: Surface Architecture	p. 413
2002: A Brief History of the Industrial Revolution	p. 421
2002: E-Bodies, E-Buildings, E-Cities	p. 426
2003: Changing Speeds	p. 437
2004: Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age	p. 440
Bibliography	p. 457
Index	p. 460
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