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> <p>1901: Frank Lloyd Wright 1914: Antonio Sant' Elia 1915: Patrick Geddes 1923: Le Corbusier 1928: Siegfried Giedion 1929: Le Corbusier 1929: Buckminster Fuller 1929: Knud Lönberg-Holm 1932: Hugo Häring 1934: Lewis Mumford 1937: Karel Honzik 1939: Frederick J. Kiesler 1941: Siegfried Giedion 1948: Siegfried Giedion 1950: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1954/1962: Team 10 1954: Richard Neutra 1957: Konrad Wachsmann 1959: Peter Collins 1960: Reyner Banham 1960: William Katavalos 1964: Christopher Alexander 1964: Marshall McLuhan 1965: Reyner Banham 1969: R. Buckminster Fuller 1969: James R. Boyce 1970: Peter Cook 1972: Superstudio 1973: Leopold Kohr 1973: Paolo Soleri 1976: Ruth Schwartz Cowan 1977: Kisho Kurokawa 1979: Philip Steadman 1981: Alan Colquhoun 1982: Luis Fernández-Galiano 1985: Steve Ternoey 1987: Martin Pawley 1988: Bruno Latour 1988: Peter McCleary 1992: Joseph Rykwert 1994: Stewart Brand 1995: Rem Koolhaas 1995: Felix Guattari 1997: Francis Duffy 1997: Paul Virilio 1999: Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos 1999: Ken Yeang 2000: Bernard Cache 2002: Manuel De Landa 2002: David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi 2002: William McDonough and Michael Braungart 2002: William J. Mitchell 2003: SLA 2004: Manuel Castells</p>