Rethinking Technology A Reader in Architectural Theory [Paperback]

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.

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'.

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.

With the ever increasing pace of technological change, this Readerpresents a clear understanding of the context in which it has and does affect architecture.

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 L?nberg-Holm  1932: Hugo H?ring  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&nbsplóQ