Architecture, technology, and process / Chris Abel.
Material type: TextPublisher: Boston : Elsevier, 2004Description: xiv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0750637927
- 9780750637923
- 720.105 23
- NA2543.T43 A24 2004
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 720.105 ABE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A292670B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Ken Yeang -- 1. Architecture in the Pacific century -- 2. Cyberspace in mind -- 3. Technology and process -- 4. Foster and Gehry : one technology; two cultures -- 5. Harry Seidler and the great Australian dream -- 6. Mediterranean mix and match -- App. I. Biotech architecture : a manifesto -- App. II. Birth of a cybernetic factory.
"Architecture, Technology and Process follows Chris Abel's previous best selling collection of essays, Architecture and Identity. Drawing upon a wide range of knowledge and disciplines, the author argues that underlying technological changes in the process of architectural production are of fundamental importance to the way we think about machines and the world we live in."--BOOK JACKET.
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