Technology and Place

Sustainable Architecture and the Blueprint Farm

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

Developing "sustainable" architectural and agricultural technologies was the intent behind Blueprint Farm, an experimental agricultural project designed to benefit farm workers displaced by the industrialization of agriculture in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Yet, despite its promise, the very institutions that created Blueprint Farm terminated the project after just four years (1987-1991). In this book, Steven Moore demonstrates how the various stakeholders' competing definitions of "sustainability," "technology," and "place" ultimately doomed Blueprint Farm. He reconstructs the conflicting interests and goals of the founders, including Jim Hightower and the Texas Department of Agriculture, Laredo Junior College, and the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, and shows how, ironically, they unwittingly suppressed the self-determination of the very farm workers the project sought to benefit. From the instructive failure of Blueprint Farm, Moore extracts eight principles for a regenerative architecture, which he calls his "nonmodern manifesto."

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-07-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:286
Förlag:University of Texas Press
ISBN:9780292752450

Utforska kategorier

Arkitektur inom Kultur
Agronomi och lantbruk inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Steven A. Moore is Bartlett Cocke Regents Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.

Recensioner i media

"I consider this book the most insightful discussion of place and technology I have encountered over the past twenty years of thinking about place and its role in modern society... I think that it will create an intellectual stir and give a significant boost to scholarship bringing together social science and the design professions." John Agnew, Professor and Chair of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by Kenneth Frampton Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. A Question of Categories Modernity, Technology, and Place Critical Regionalism Toward a Nonmodern Alternative Chapter 2. A Reconstruction from the File Chapter 3. The Local History of Space Place, Technology, and Technological Networks La Frontera Chica Narrowing Horizons of Spatial Discourse Chapter 4. Conflicting Intentions The Concept of Intentionality Networks of Intention Uninhabited Intentions Chapter 5. Technological Interventions Traditions in Science and Technology Studies Making Problems Go Away Democracy and Participation Chapter 6. Reception Reception Theory Mixed Receptions Received Paradigms Chapter 7. Reproduction The Production of Facts Spreading Claims Sublime Reproductions Chapter 8. Eight Propositions Summary Propositions The Nonmodern Thesis Eight Points for Regenerative Architecture: A Nonmodern Manifesto Appendix. The Things Themselves Notes References Index