Main entry:

Gregotti, Vittorio.

Title & Author:

Architecture, means and ends / Vittorio Gregotti ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.

Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Description:

viii, 137 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-130) and index.
The designer as technician -- The art of technology -- The art of cyberculture -- The debate about art in the age of mechanization -- Art and the industrial revolution -- Industrial product design -- Motion, the movement, and the city -- The dwelling and its mechanization -- Toward the mechanical weltbild -- Technology and the history of architecture -- The technics of art -- The role of technics in the artistic practice of architecture -- The question of intention -- The work and the event -- Fundamentals and foundations -- Use, consumption, exchange -- Technics as an end -- The technics of the project and its representation -- Professionals, technics, and materiality -- Architecture as labor -- Assembly as a unifying principle -- Materials and content -- The city as assembly -- The twilight of the machine age.
Translated from the Italian.

Summary:

"Vittorio Gregotti-the architect of Barcelona's Olympic Stadium, Milan's Arcimboldi Opera Theater, and Lisbon's Centro Cultural de BelTm, among other noted constructions-is not only a designer of international repute but an acclaimed theorist and critic. Architecture, Means and Ends is his practical and imaginative reflection on the role of the technical aspects of architectural design, both as part of the larger process of innovation and in relation to the mythic opposition between vision and construction." "Interweaving the seemingly irreconcilable concerns of aesthetics, meaning, and construction, Architecture, Means and Ends reflects Gregotti's overarching claim that buildings always have a symbolic cultural content. In this book, he argues that by making symbolic expression a primary objective in the design of a project, the designer will produce a practical aesthetic as well as an ethical solution. Architecture, Means and Ends embraces that philosophy and will appeal to those who are, like Gregotti, working at the intersection of the history of design, art criticism, and architectural theory."--Jacket.

ISBN:

9780226307589 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226307581 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture and technology.
Architecture Technological innovations.
Architecture et technologie.
Architecture Innovations.

Added entries:

Cochrane, Lydia G.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269462
Call No.: NA44.G823.A6 2010
Status: Available