Technology and Place : Sustainable Architecture and the Blueprint Farm /

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Developing "sustainable" architectural and agricultural technologies was the intent behind Blueprint Farm. In this book, Steven Moore demonstrates how the various stakeholders' competing definitions of "sustainability," "technology," and "place" ultimatel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moore, Steven A., 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2001.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Boerderijen.
Duurzaam bouwen.
Technology > Social aspects.
Farm buildings.
Architecture.
Agricultural innovations.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > General.
Architecture > Texas > Laredo > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Agriculture > Innovations > Texas > Laredo.
Architecture > Texas > Laredo > History > 20th century.
Farm buildings > Texas > Laredo.
Technology > Social aspects > Texas > Laredo.
Agricultural innovations > Texas > Laredo.
Texas > Laredo > Blueprint Farm.
Texas > Laredo.
Blueprint Farm (Laredo, Tex.)
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • COVER; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER ONE: A QUESTION OF CATEGORIES; Modernity, Technology, and Place; Critical Regionalism; Toward a Nonmodern Alternative; CHAPTER TWO: A RECONSTRUCTION FROM THE FILE; CHAPTER THREE: THE LOCAL HISTORY OF SPACE; Place, Technology, and Technological Networks; La Frontera Chica; Narrowing Horizons of Spatial Discourse; CHAPTER FOUR: CONFLICTING INTENTIONS; The Concept of Intentionality; Networks of Intention; Uninhabited Intentions; CHAPTER FIVE: TECHNOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS; Traditions in Science and Technology Studies.
  • Making Problems Go AwayDemocracy and Participation; CHAPTER SIX: RECEPTION; Reception Theory; Mixed Receptions; Received Paradigms; CHAPTER SEVEN: REPRODUCTION; The Production of Facts; Spreading Claims; Sublime Reproductions; CHAPTER EIGHT: EIGHT PROPOSITIONS; Summary Propositions; The Nonmodern Thesis; Eight Points for Regenerative Architecture: A Nonmodern Manifesto; APPENDIX: THE THINGS THEMSELVES; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.

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