{"product_id":"detailing-worlds-9781350204379","title":"Detailing Worlds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 21st century, the word detail appears constantly in discussions of building, and we use it in many different waysyet just over 250 years ago, detail meant nothing at all particular to the work of architects, engineers, or builders. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDetailing Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to examine the origins and evolution of detail as a concept with meanings specific to practices of building. By exploring how past meanings and roles were ascribed to detail in different worlds of practicethose of academics, technicians, students, engineers, and architects\u003ci\u003eDetailing Worlds \u003c\/i\u003elooks to the future, illuminating the ways disciplinary knowledge and the concepts on which it is based evolve and change over time. It is a story about how such concepts are slowly but constantly reconceived, redefined, and transformed by individuals as they interact with one another, and how this process is shaped by the ever-changing sociocultural and technological dimensions of the world around us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577899127127,"sku":"9781350204379","price":80.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350204379.jpg?v=1746097090","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/detailing-worlds-9781350204379","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}