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We can no longer view building components as artifacts (a brick or a boiler) or as autonomous systems (air conditioning or prefabrication). Rather these components and systems are part of much larger systems of which architects are one agent. This book will help architects more broadly envision these networks including :

canonical texts as well as contemporary thinking from well known theorists and practitioners, each contribution frames a specific range of technology in relation to society such as building process, products, economies and ecologies clearly structured, the book is divided into three parts; each accompanied by a comprehensive introduction by the editors an annotated bibliography provides a glossary of further reading illustrated throughout with over 100 illustrations.

The book calls for integration, a convergence and confluence of social and technical factors, discovering the capability and culpability of such; for architects to finally realize that the term building systems is best grasped as a verb, not a set of nouns.

This reader presents students, faculty and practicing architects with an expanded view of technology in architecture that transcends naive determinisms and technocratic applications; forming a more pithy intellectual context for the complex and contingent roles of technology in twenty-first century architecture.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• List of illustrations(p. vii)
• List of contributors(p. xiii)
• List of sources(p. xvii)
• Prologue(p. xix)
• Introduction: systems, technics, and society(p. 1)
• Part 1 Building systems(p. 11)
• 1 Construction history: between technological and cultural history(p. 13)
• 2 How the introduction of iron in construction changed and developed thought patterns in design(p. 34)
• 3 Retrofitting and redacting masonry engineering(p. 73)
• 4 Building systems/building territories: industrialized housing delivery and the role of the architect(p. 86)
• Part 2 Building economies(p. 105)
• 5 "Architecture or Revolution": Taylorism, technocracy, and social change(p. 109)
• 6 Glass and light: the influence of interior illumination on the "Chicago School"(p. 145)
• 7 Obsolescence: notes towards a history(p. 159)
• 8 Risky business, fishy forms(p. 171)
• Part 3 Building ecologies(p. 183)
• 9 Household conditioning (if you are cold, put on a sweater)(p. 185)
• 10 A house within a house(p. 193)
• 11 Architectural production and sociotechnical codes: a theoretical framework(p. 212)
• Annotated bibliography(p. 229)
• List of illustration credits(p. 237)
• Index(p. 241)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Kiel Moe is Assistant Professor of Architectural Technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Ryan E. Smith is an Associate Professor and Director of the Integrated Technology in Architecture Center at the University of Utah, College of Architecture and Planning.