This essential reference for all students of architecture; design and the built environment provides a convenient single source for all the key texts in the recent literature on architecture and technology.The book contains over fifty carefully selected essays; manifestoes; reflections and theories by architects and architectural writers from 1900 to 2004. This mapping out of a century of architectural technology reveals the disciplines long and close attention to the experience and effects of new technologies; and provides a broad picture of the shift from the age of tools to the age of systems.Chronological arrangement and cross-referencing of the articles enable both a thematic and historically contextual understanding of the topic and highlight important thematic connections across time.With the ever increasing pace of technological change; this Reader presents a clear understanding of the context in which it has and does affect architecture.
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