Design Technics: Archaeologies of Architectural Practice - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1517906849 ISBN 13: 9781517906849

Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Leading scholars historicize and theorize technology’s role in architectural design


Although the question of technics pervades the contemporary discipline of architecture, there are few critical analyses on the topic. Design Technics fills this gap, arguing that the technical dimension of design has often been flattened into the broader celebratory rhetoric of innovation. Bringing together leading scholars in architectural and design history, the volume’s contributors situate these tools on a broader epistemological and chronological canvas. The essays here construct histories-some panoramic and others unfolding around a specific episode-of seven techniques regularly used by the designer in the architectural studio today: rendering, modeling, scanning, equipping, specifying, positioning, and repeating.

Starting with observations about the epistemological changes that have unfolded in the discipline in recent decades but seeking to offer a more expansive meaning for technics, the volume casts new light on concepts such as form, experience, and image that have played central roles in historical architectural discourses. Among the questions addressed: How was the concept of form immanent in practices of scanning since the late nineteenth century? What was the historical relationship between rendering and experience in Enlightenment discourses? How did practices of specifying reconfigure the distinction between intellectual and manual labor? What kind of rationality is inherent in the designer’s constant clicking of the mouse in front of her screen? 

In addressing these and other questions, this engaging and timely collection thereby proposes technics as a site for historical and philosophical reflection not only for those engaged in architectural design but also for any scholar working in the humanities today.

Contributors: Lucia Allais, Edward Eigen, Orit Halpern, John Harwood, Matthew C. Hunter, and Michael Osman.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Zeynep Çelik Alexander is associate professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and author of Kinaesthetic Knowing: Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design. 

John May is assistant professor of architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and author of Signal. Image. Architecture. He is founding partner of MILLIØNS, a Los Angeles–based architectural practice. 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1517906849
• ISBN 13: 9781517906849
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Herausgeber: Çelik Alexander Zeynep, May John
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