{"product_id":"industries-of-architecture-9781138946828","title":"Industries of Architecture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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 \u003cem\u003eIndustries of Architecture\u003c\/em\u003e 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 reproductionfinance 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 discur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Industries of Architecture\u003c\/em\u003e invites us to rethink what constitutes the ‘work’ of architecture – in the past, the present, and in the future. In a reversal of the usual emphasis in the humanities on design as the exclusive field of architects’ creative endeavours, \u003ci\u003eIndustries of Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e offers an alternative view – one in which architects’ engagement with labour, with legal systems, with manufacturing practices, and with business organisation are no longer treated as contingent, but as central to what architects do.'\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eAdrian Forty, Professor Emeritus of Architectural History, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Industries of Architecture\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e offers intriguing new evidence of the breadth and depth of architecture’s cultural diffusion. Its exploration of myriad aspects of architectural production supplies valuable historical documentation and useful theoretical strategies to shift the focus of architectural history away from the singular presence of architectural objects and toward the conditions and connections that make those objects possible.'\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eAggregate Architectural History Collaborative\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Industries of Architecture \u003cem\u003e Tilo Amhoff, Nick Beech and Katie Lloyd Thomas\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 1: Architecture and the Representation of Industry \u003c\/b\u003e2. Allan Sekula’s Architectures of Industry and Industries of Architecture \u003cem\u003e Gail Day\u003c\/em\u003e 3. Walter Gropius’ Silos and Reyner Banham’s Grain Elevators as Art-objects \u003cem\u003eCatalina Mejía Moreno\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 2: Architecture Responds to Industry \u003c\/b\u003e4. The Collaborations of Jean Prouvé and Marcel Lods: An open or closed case? \u003cem\u003eKevin Donovan\u003c\/em\u003e 5. The Production of the Commons: Mies van der Rohe and the art of industrial standardisation \u003cem\u003eMhairi McVicar\u003c\/em\u003e 6. Modular Men: Architects, labour and standardisation in mid-twentieth century Britain \u003cem\u003eChristine Wall\u003c\/em\u003e 7. Post 1965 Italy: The ‘Metaprogetto sì e no’ \u003cem\u003eAlicia Imperiale\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 3: The Construction Site \u003c\/b\u003e8.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eIntroduction to Sérgio Ferro \u003cem\u003eFelipe Contier\u003c\/em\u003e 9. Dessin\/Chantier: An Introduction \u003cem\u003eSérgio Ferro\u003c\/em\u003e 10. Architecture as Ensemble: A matter of method \u003cem\u003eJoão Marcos Almeida de Lopes\u003c\/em\u003e 11. Factory Processes and Relations in Indian Temple Production \u003cem\u003eMegha Chand Inglis\u003c\/em\u003e 12. Construction Sites of Utopia\u003cem\u003e Silke Kapp\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 4: The Work of Architects \u003c\/b\u003e13. Architectural Work :: Immaterial Labour \u003cem\u003ePeggy Deamer\u003c\/em\u003e 14. Form as\/and Utopia of Collective Labour: Typification and collaboration in East German industrialised construction \u003cem\u003eTorsten Lange\u003c\/em\u003e 15. Tools for Conviviality: Architects and the limits of flexibility for housing design in New Belgrade \u003cem\u003eTijana Stevanović\u003c\/em\u003e 16. Counting Women in Architecture \u003cem\u003eKaren Burns and Justine Clark\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 5: Economy \u003c\/b\u003e17. Building Design: A component of the building labour process \u003cem\u003eJörn Janssen\u003c\/em\u003e 18. The Place of Architecture in the New Economy \u003cem\u003eAndrew Rabeneck\u003c\/em\u003e 19. Financial Formations\u003cem\u003e Matthew Soules\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 6: Law and Regulation \u003c\/b\u003e20. French Architects’ Use of the Law \u003cem\u003eRobert Carvais\u003c\/em\u003e 21. The Architectural Discourse of Building Bureaucracy: Architects’ project statements in Portugal in the 1950\u003cem\u003es Ricardo Agarez\u003c\/em\u003e 22. Regulatory Spaces, Physical and Metaphorical: On the legal and spatial occupation of fire-safety legislation \u003cem\u003eLiam Ross\u003c\/em\u003e 23. Common Projects and Privatized Potential: Projection and representation in the Rotterdam Kunsthal \u003cem\u003eStefan White\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 7: Technologies of Management \u003c\/b\u003e24. The Electrification of the Factory, or the Flexible Layout of Work(s) \u003cem\u003eTilo Amhoff\u003c\/em\u003e 25. An ‘Architecture of Bureaucracy’: Technocratic planning of government architecture in Belgium in the 1930s \u003cem\u003eJens van de Maele\u003c\/em\u003e 26. Laboratory Architecture and the Deep Membrane of Science \u003cem\u003eSandra Kaji-O’Grady and Chris L. Smith\u003c\/em\u003e 27. Performativity and Paranoia (Or how to do the ‘Internet of Things’ with words) \u003cem\u003eClaudia Dutson\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePart 8: Contemporary Questions \u003c\/strong\u003e28.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eOn Site\u003cem\u003e Nick Beech, Linda Clarke, Christine Wall with Ian Fitzgerald\u003c\/em\u003e 29.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eBIM: The Pain and the Gain \u003cem\u003eJohn Gelder\u003c\/em\u003e 30.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eThe Sustainable Retrofit Challenge: What does it mean for architecture? \u003cem\u003eSofie Pelsmakers and David Kroll\u003c\/em\u003e 31.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eRisk and Reflexivity: Architecture and the industries of risk-distribution\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiam Ross\u003c\/em\u003e 32. Unapproved Document Part O: Designing for ageing \u003cem\u003eSarah Wigglesworth \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019544822103,"sku":"9781138946828","price":51.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138946828.jpg?v=1750780588","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/industries-of-architecture-9781138946828","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}