Design Technics: Archaeologies of Architectural Practice
Design Technics: Archaeologies of Architectural Practice
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Zeynep Çelik Alexander and John May, Editors
SKU S03890
Leading scholars historicize and theorize technology’s role in architectural design
Design Technics argues that the technical dimension of design has often been flattened into the broader celebratory rhetoric of innovation. Here leading scholars in architectural and design history 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.
296 pages, 79 b&w photos, 7 x 10, January 2020
