Description
| Product ID: | 9781138946828 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Critiques |
| Title: | Industries of Architecture |
| Authors: | Author: Katie Lloyd Thomas, Tilo Amhoff, Nick Beech |
| Page Count: | 346 |
| Subjects: | Theory of architecture, Theory of architecture, Architecture: professional practice, History of architecture, The environment, Building construction and materials, Architecture: professional practice, History of architecture, The environment, Building construction & materials |
| Description: | International contributors from industry set out the most pressing contemporary concerns for the production of architecture, and the academic contributions ask what methods and objects are appropriate for this emerging field of study. At a time when the technologies and techniques of producing the built environment are undergoing significant change, this book makes central architecture’s relationship to industry. Contributors turn to historical and theoretical questions, as well as to key contemporary developments, taking a humanities approach to the Industries of Architecture that will be of interest to practitioners and industry professionals, as much as to academic researchers, teachers and students. How has modern architecture responded to mass production? How do we understand the necessarily social nature of production in the architectural office and on the building site? And how is architecture entwined within wider fields of production and reproduction—finance capital, the spaces of regulation, and management techniques? What are the particular effects of techniques and technologies (and above all their inter-relations) on those who labour in architecture, the buildings they produce, and the discursive frameworks we mobilise to understand them? |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-11-19 |