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Architecture, means and ends
- Title
- Architecture, means and ends / Vittorio Gregotti ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.
- Author
- Gregotti, Vittorio.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Cochrane, Lydia G.
- Description
- viii, 137 p.; 23 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Architettura, tecnica, finalità. English
- Alternative Title
- Architettura, tecnica, finalità.
- Subjects
- Note
- Translated from Italian.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Italian.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JQD 10-754
- ISBN
- 9780226307589 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226307581 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010007672
- OCLC
- 531718898
- Author
- Gregotti, Vittorio.
- Title
- Architecture, means and ends / Vittorio Gregotti ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- Translated from the Italian.
- Added Author
- Cochrane, Lydia G.
- Research Call Number
- JQD 10-754