Rethinking Technology

A Reader in Architectural Theory

William W. Braham, Jonathan A. Hale

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2006
• ISBN:
  9781134279333
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

This essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment provides a convenient single source for all the key texts in the recent literature on architecture and technology.

The book contains over fifty carefully selected essays, manifestoes, reflections and theories by architects and architectural writers from 1900 to 2004. This mapping out of a century of architectural technology reveals the discipline's long and close attention to the experience and effects of new technologies, and provides a broad picture of the shift from the 'age of tools' to the 'age of systems'.

Chronological arrangement and cross-referencing of the articles enable both a thematic and historically contextual understanding of the topic and highlight important thematic connections across time.

With the ever increasing pace of technological change, this Reader presents a clear understanding of the context in which it has and does affect architecture.

INDEX

Aalto, Alvar 348

Adopters 291

Adventure of Ideas (A.N.Whitehead) 59

advertisers as link between social and technological change 223-4

ageing 78n6

Ageing Couple (P.Klee) 102

aircraft industry, influence on construction 306-7n12

Akrich, Madeleine 313,318

Alberti, Leon Battista 283,347,404

Album (V.de Honnecourt) 271

analogy, biological:

applied to art theory 132;

and architectural evolution 133;

as associated with Frank Lloyd Wright 279;

classification of organic functions 133-4;

confusion in 131;

correlation between organs 134-5;

evolution 130-1,137;

form and function 132;

and the functional analogy 135;

importance of environment 134, 282-3;

morphology 131,260-2;

origin of 130;

process of artistic creation 132-3;

term biology invented 131; see also artefacts, changes in

Analytical Archaeology (D.Clarke) 246

anthropomorphism 314-16

Archigram Group 301

architects:

diminishing role of 297; and engineers 56,355

Architectural Digest 351

architecture:

after invention of printing 4-5;

as a changing concept 40-1;

chemical 149-50;

and clients of 53; and crisis 43;

defined 43;

and energy 77;

and engineering 34;

futurist 18-21;

health as only criterion of 73-4;

and industry 52-4;

innovations in industrial buildings 82;

knowledge of not scientific 255-6;

lack of innovation 44-5;

masterpieces of 65;

material determination in 405;

modern, symbolic expression in 266-9;

and ...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title
• Rethinking Technology
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowlegments
• Introduction
• 1901: Frank Lloyd Wright The Art and Craft of the Machine
• 1914: Antonio Sant’ Elia Manifesto of Futurist Architecture
• 1915: Patrick Geddes Paleotechnic and Neotechnic
• 1923: Le Corbusier Engineer’s Aesthetic and Architecture
• 1928: Siegfried Giedion Construction.Industry.Architecture
• 1929: Le CorbusierArchitecture: The Expression of the Materials and Methods of our Timese
• 1929: Richard Buckminster Fuller 4D Time Lock
• 1929: Knud Lönberg-Holm Architecture in the Industrial Age
• 1932: Hugo Häring The House as an Organic Structure
• 1934: Lewis Mumford Technical Syncretism and Toward an Organic Ideology
• 1937: Karel Honzík Biotechnics: Functional Design and the Vegetable World
• 1939: Frederick J.Kiesler On Correalism and Biotechnique: A Definition and Test of a New Approach to Building Design
• 1941: Siegfried Giedion Industrialization as a Fundamental Event
• 1948: Siegfried Giedion The Assembly Line and Scientific Management
• 1950: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Technology and Architecture
• 1954/1962: Team 10 The Doorn Manifesto
• 1954: Richard Neutra Survival Through Design
• 1957: Konrad Wachsmann Seven Theses
• 1959: Peter Collins The Biological Analogy
• 1960 Peter Reyner Banham Functionalism and Technology
• 1960: William Katavolos Organics
• 1964: Christopher Alexander The Selfconscious Process
• 1964: Marshall McLuhan Housing: New Look and New Outlook
• 1965: Peter Reyner Banham A Home is not a House
• 1969: Richard Buckminster Fuller Comprehensive Propensities
• 1969 James R.Boyce What is the Systems Approach?
• 1970: Peter Cook Experiment is an Inevitable
• 1972: Superstudio Microevent/Microenvironment
• 1973: Leopold Kohr Velocity Population
• 1973: Paolo Soleri Function Follows Form(Structure Before Performance)
• 1976: Ruth Schwartz Cowan The “Industrial Revolution” in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the Twentieth Century
• 1977: Kisho Kurokawa The Philosophy of Metabolism
• 1979: Philip Steadman What Remains of the Analogy? The History and Science of the Artificial
• 1981: Alan Colquhoun Symbolic and Literal Aspects of Technology
• 1982: Luis Fernández-Galiano Organisms and Mechanisms,Metaphors of Architecture
• 1985: Steve Ternoey The Patterns of Innovation and Change
• 1987: Martin Pawley Technology Transfer
• 1988: Bruno Latour Mixing Humans and Nonhumans Together: The Sociology of a Door-Closer
• 1988 Peter McCleary Some Characteristics of a New Concept of Technology
• 1992: Joseph Rykwert Organic and Mechanical
• 1994: Stewart Brand Shearing
• 1995: Rem Koolhaas Speculations on Structures and Services
• 1995: Félix Guattari Machinic Heterogenesis
• 1997: Francis Duffy Time in Office Design
• 1997: Paul Virilio The Third Interval
• 1999: Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos Techniques: Network Spin, and Diagrams
• 1999: Ken Yeang A Theory of Ecological Design
• 2000: Bernard Cache Digital Semper
• 2000: Manuel De Landa Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture
• 2002: David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi Surface Architecture
• 2002: William McDonough and Michael Braungart A Brief History of the Industrial Revolution
• 2002: William J.Mitchell E-Bodies, E-Buildings, E-Cities
• 2003: SLA Changing Speeds
• 2004: Manuel Castells Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age
• Bibliography
• Index