Architecture, means and ends
By: Vittorio Gregotti ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.
Contributors: Cochrane, Lydia G.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9780226307589
Subjects: Architecture and technology; Architecture -- Technological innovations
Work titles: Architettura, tecnica, finalità.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The designer as technician; title: The art of technology; title: The art of cyberculture; title: The debate about art in the age of mechanization; title: Art and the industrial revolution; title: Industrial product design; title: Motion, the movement, and the city; title: The dwelling and its mechanization; title: Toward the mechanical weltbild; title: Technology and the history of architecture; title: The technics of art; title: The role of technics in the artistic practice of architecture; title: The question of intention; title: The work and the event; title: Fundamentals and foundations; title: Use, consumption, exchange; title: Technics as an end; title: The technics of the project and its representation; title: Professionals, technics, and materiality; title: Architecture as labor; title: Assembly as a unifying principle; title: Materials and content; title: The city as assembly; title: The twilight of the machine age.