Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 13
1901 Frank Lloyd Wright: The Art and Craft of the Machine......Page 18
1914 Antonio Sant’ Elia: Manifesto of Futurist Architecture......Page 32
1915 Patrick Geddes: Peleotechnic and Neotechnic......Page 36
1923 Le Corbusier: Engineer’s, Aesthetic and Architecture......Page 45
1928 Siegfried Giedion: Construction. Industry. Architecture......Page 50
1929 Le Corbusier: Architecture: The Expression the Materials Methods of our Times......Page 55
1929 Richard Buckminster Fuller: 4D Time Lock......Page 59
1929 Knud Lönberg-Holm: Architecture in the Industrial Age......Page 64
1932 Hugo Häring: The House as an Organic Structure......Page 68
1934 Lewis Mumford: Technical Syncretism and Toward an Organic Ideology......Page 70
1937 Karel Honzík: Biotechnics: Functional Design and the Vegetable World......Page 75
1939 Frederick J.Kiesler: On Correalism and Biotechnique: A Definition and Test of a New Approach to Building Design......Page 78
1941 Siegfried Giedion: Industrialization as a Fundamental Event......Page 92
1948 Siegfried Giedion: The Assembly Line and Scientific Management......Page 94
1950 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Technology and Architecture......Page 123
1954/1962 Team 10: The Doorn Manifesto......Page 125
1954 Richard Neutra: Survival Through Design......Page 127
1957 Konrad Wachsmann: Seven Theses......Page 136
1959 Peter Collins: The Biological Analogy......Page 138
1960 Peter Reyner Banham: Functionalism and Technology......Page 147
1960 William Katavolos: Organics......Page 157
1964 Christopher Alexander: The Selfconscious Process......Page 160
1964 Marshall McLuhan: Housing: New Look and New Outlook......Page 170
1965 Peter Reyner Banham: A Home is not a House......Page 176
1969 Richard Buckminster Fuller: Comprehensive Propensities......Page 184
1969 James R.Boyce: What is the Systems Approach?......Page 189
1970 Peter Cook: Experiment is an Inevitable......Page 196
1973 Leopold Kohr: Velocity Population......Page 212
1973 Paolo Soleri: Function Follows Form (Structure Before Performance)......Page 215
1976 Ruth Schwartz Cowan: The “Industrial Revolution” in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the Twentieth Century......Page 220
1977 Kisho Kurokawa: The Philosophy of Metabolism......Page 235
1979 Philip Steadman: What Remains of the Analogy? The History and Science of the Artificial......Page 249
1981 Alan Colquhoun: Symbolic and Literal Aspects of Technology......Page 269
1982 Luis Fernández-Galiano: Organisms and Mechanisms, Metaphors of ArchitectureMechanical, Thermal, and Cybernetic Machines versus the Living and the Built......Page 273
1985 Steve Ternoey: The Patterns of Innovation and Change......Page 293
1987 Martin Pawley: Technology Transfer......Page 297
1988 Bruno Latour: Mixing Humans and Nonhumans Together: The Sociology of a Door-Closer......Page 311
1988 Peter McCleary: Some Characteristics of a New Concept of Technology......Page 327
1992 Joseph Rykwert: Organic and Mechanical......Page 339
1994 Stewart Brand: Shearing......Page 351
1995 Rem Koolhaas: Speculations on Structures and Services......Page 355
1995 Félix Guattari: Machinic Heterogenesis......Page 359
1997 Francis Duffy: Time in Office Design......Page 373
1997 Paul Virilio: The Third Interval......Page 375
1999 Ben Van Berkel and Caroline Bos: Techniques: Network Spin, and Digrams......Page 384
1999 Ken Yeang: A Theory of Ecological Design......Page 388
2000 Bernard Cache: Digital Semper......Page 395
2000 Manuel De Landa: Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture......Page 405
2002 David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi: Surface Architecture......Page 411
2002 William McDonough and Michael Braungart: A Brief History of the Industrial Revolution......Page 419
2002 William J.Mitchell: E-Bodies, E-Buildings, E-Cities......Page 423
2003 SLA: Changing Speeds......Page 433
2004 Manuel Castells: Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age......Page 435
Bibliography......Page 452
Index......Page 455