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Technology and Place : Sustainable Architecture and the Blueprint Farm by Steven A. Moore (2001, Mass Market)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Texas Press
ISBN-100292752458
ISBN-139780292752450
eBay Product ID (ePID)1749554
Product Key Features
Number of Pages286 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameTechnology and Place : Sustainable Architecture and the Blueprint Farm
SubjectSocial Aspects, Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, Agriculture / General, History / General
Publication Year2001
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArchitecture, Technology & Engineering
AuthorSteven A. Moore
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN00-010975
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"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
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal631.2/09764
Table Of ContentForeword 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
SynopsisIn this book, Steven Moore demonstrates how the various stakeholders' competing definitions of "sustainability," "technology," and "place" ultimately doomed an experimental agricultural project designed to benefit farm workers displaced by the industrial, 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.", 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."
LC Classification NumberS451.T4M66 2001
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