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Responses to cultural and technological change
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Second Edition
By
Chris Abel, Architectural writer and lecturer based in Sydney, Australia.
Description
'Instead of tuning the consumer to the machine we can now tune the machine to the consumer'
This edited collection of essays, now in
its second edition, brings together the author's key writings on the cultural, technological and theoretical developments reshaping Modern
architecture into a responsive and diverse movement for the twenty-first century.
Chris Abel approaches his subject from a wide range
of knowledge, including cybernetics, philosophy, new human science and development planning, as well as his experience as a teacher and
critic on four continents. The result is a unique global perspective on the changing nature of Modern architecture at the turn of the
millennium. Including two new chapters, this revised and expanded second edition offers radical insights into such topics as: the impact
of information technology on customized architecture production; the relations between tradition and innovation; prospects for a global
eco-culture, and the local and global forces shaping the architecture and cities of Asia.
Chris Abel is an architectural writer and
educator, based in Malta. He has taught at major universities in the UK, North and South America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East
and is a contributor to numerous international journals and other publications. He currently holds visiting appointments at the University
of Malta and the University of the Phillippines.
Audience
Students, teachers and practitioners of architecture, urban and development planningand libraries.
Contents
Part 1: Science and technology: Ditching the dinosaur sanctuary; Urban chaos or self-organization?; Design method and new science; Return
to craft manufacture; Visible and invisible complexities; The bio-tech architecture workshop Part 2: Critical theory: Rationality and
Meaning in design; Architectural language games; The role of metaphor in changing architectural concepts; Function of tacit knowing in
learning to design; The essential tension; Tradition, innovation and linked solutions; Part 3: Regionalism and Globalization: Architecture
as identity; Living in a hybrid world; Regional transformations; Prime objects; Localization versus globalization; Ecodevelopment, technology
and regionalism; Architecture in the Pacific ocean; Notes and references.
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Paperback, 288 pages, publication date: JAN-2000
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-4246-0
ISBN-10: 0-7506-4246-7
Imprint: ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
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