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Building Systems: Design Technology and Society book cover

1st Edition

Building Systems Design Technology and Society

Edited By Kiel Moe, Ryan E. Smith Copyright 2012
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

We can no longer view building components as artifacts (a brick or a boiler) or as autonomous systems (air conditioning or prefabrication). Rather these components and systems are part of much larger systems of which architects are one agent. This book will help architects more broadly envision these networks including : canonical texts as well as contemporary thinking from well... Read more

Prologue  Introduction:  Systems, Technics, and Society Kiel Moe & Ryan E. Smith  Part 1 Building Systems  1. Construction History: Between Technological and Cultural History Antoine Picon 2. How the Introduction of Iron in Construction changed and Developed Thought Patterns in Design Tom F. Peters 3. Retrofitting and Redacting Masonry Engineering Philippe Block 4. Building Systems/Building Territories: Industrialized Housing Delivery and the Role of the Architect Ivan Rupnik Part 2 Building Economies 5. "Architecture or Revolution": Taylorism, Technocracy, and Social Change Mary McLeod 6. Glass and Light: The Influence of Interior Illumination on the "Chicago School" Tom Leslie 7. Obsolescence: Notes Towards a History Daniel Abramson 8. Risky Business, Fishy Forms Ellen Grimes Part 3 Building Ecologies 9. Household Conditioning (if you are cold, put on a sweater) William Braham 10. A House within a House Hillary Sample  11. Architectural Production and Sociotechnical Codes: A Theoretical Framework Steven Moore & Barbara B. Wilson Annotated Bibliography

Biography

Kiel Moe is Assistant Professor of Architectural Technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Ryan E. Smith is Associate Professor and Director of the Integrated Technology in Architecture Center at the University of Utah, College of Architecture and Planning.

"To overcome the numerous crises facing architecture and construction, designers must adopt a systems approach to building. In this elegant collection of essays, historical precedents suggest new possibilities for the future as well as new interpretations of the past. The result is a sweeping view of building technology as a vibrant and complex field, ripe with new ground to explore."

John Ochsendorf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

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