TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alexander, Zeynep Çelik
AU  - Alexander,Zeynep Çelik
AU  - May,John
TI  - Design technics: archaeologies of architectural practice. 
SN  - 9781452960593
AV  - NA2750  D4166 2020
U1  - 720.285 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Architectural design
KW  - Architecture and technology
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : Architecture and Technics / Zeynep Çelik Alexander -- Rendering : On Experience and Experiments / Lucia Allais -- Modeling : A Secret History of Following / Matthew C. Hunter -- Scanning : A Technical History of Form / Zeynep Çelik Alexander -- Equipping : Domestic Sleights of Hand / Edward A. Eigen -- Specifying : The Generality of Clerical Labor / Michael Osman -- Positioning : Architecture of Logistics / John Harwood -- Repeating : Cybernetic Intelligence / Orit Halpern -- Afterword : Architecture in Real Time / John May
N2  - "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"--
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