Rethinking Technology

<p>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.</p><p>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'.</p><p>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.</p><p>With the ever increasing pace of technological change this <em>Reader</em> presents a clear understanding of the context in which it has and does affect architecture.</p>