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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.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

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

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

William Braham is associate professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written widely on environmental technologies, combining technical analysis with historical and theoretical accounts. He is the author of Modern Color/Modern Architecture: Amedee Ozenfant and the genealogy of color in modern architecture (2002).

Jonathan Hale is associate professor and director of research in architecture at the School of the Built Environment, University of Nottingham. He is the author of Building Ideas: An Introduction to Architectural Theory (2000).

John Stanislav Sadar is an architect and partner in the multidisciplinary design firm little wonder.