Title & Author:

Design technics : archaeologies of architectural practice / Zeynep Çelik Alexander and John May, editors.

Publication:

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
©2020

Description:

xxiii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Architecture and technics / Zeynep Çelik Alexander -- 1. Rendering : On experience and experiments / Lucia Allais -- 2. Modeling : A secret history of following / Matthew C. Hunter -- 3. Scanning : A technical history of form / Zeynep Çelik Alexander -- 4. Equipping : Domestic sleights of hand / Edward A. Eigen -- 5. Specifying : The generality of clerical labor / Michael Osman -- 6. Positioning : Architecture of logistics / John Harwood -- 7. Repeating : Cybernetic intelligence / Orit Halpern -- Afterword : Architecture in real time / John May.

Summary:

"This edited collection seeks to historicize and theorize technology's role in architectural design. Arguing that the technical tools of design have often been flattened into the broader celebratory rhetoric of innovation, the volume editors and contributors seek to situate these tools on a broader epistemological canvas. How do these tools reflect architecture's changing relationship to evidence: from an emphasis on historical forms and traditions leading up to the 20th Century to a reliance on scientific and empirical data in the 21st. Organized around eight design techniques- rendering, scanning, modeling, controlling, specifying, networking, imaging, and lodging - this project blends discourses in architecture, media studies, history of technology and philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781517906849 hardcover
1517906849 hardcover
9781517906856 paperback
1517906857 paperback
electronic book
9781452960609

Subject:

Architectural design.
Architecture and technology.
Design architectural.
Architecture et technologie.
Architektur
Design
Technik

Added entries:

Alexander, Zeynep Çelik, editor.
May, John (Architect), editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307776
Call No.: BIB 253259
Status: Available