Rethinking Technology A Reader in Architectural Theory

Rethinking Technology is an essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment; providing a convenient single source for all the key texts in the recent literature on architecture and technology.The essays included are chronicles, manifestos, reflections, and theories produced by architects and architectural writers. Arranged in chronological order of original publication, these essays allow comparisons to be made between writings produced in a similar historical context and reveal the discipline's long and close attention to the experience and effects of new technologies, from the early twentieth century to the present day.With the ever increasing pace of technological change, the fact and condition of change itself has become the subject of architectural discussion, made manifest in organic and dynamic analogies and the use of terms like process, flow, and emergence. Most architects still use the word technology to refer to the different means and methods of building, however in recent years the term has become synonymous with the digital realm and the whole apparatus of computerised information flow. With that change, the tools of design and construction have become a matter of processes, networks and systems.The editors preface each text with a short introduction explaining the significance of the essay in relation to the broader developments charted by the book. Cross-references are also made between individual texts in order to highlight important thematic connections across time.Braham, William is the author of 'Rethinking Technology A Reader in Architectural Theory', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415346535 and ISBN 0415346533.