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Architecture, means and ends
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Architettura, tecnica, finalità. English
Title
Architecture, means and ends / Vittorio Gregotti ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.
ISBN
9780226307589 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226307581 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Physical Description
viii, 137 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Translated from Italian.
Translated from the Italian.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 20, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The designer as technician
The art of technology
The art of cyberculture
The debate about art in the age of mechanization
Art and the industrial revolution
Industrial product design
Motion, the movement, and the city
The dwelling and its mechanization
Toward the mechanical weltbild
Technology and the history of architecture
The technics of art
The role of technics in the artistic practice of architecture
The question of intention
The work and the event
Fundamentals and foundations
Use, consumption, exchange
Technics as an end
The technics of the project and its representation
Professionals, technics, and materiality
Architecture as labor
Assembly as a unifying principle
Materials and content
The city as assembly
The twilight of the machine age.
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