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Subject(s)

• Architectural practice [Browse]
• Architecture—Economic aspects [Browse]
• Industries—Social aspects [Browse]

Editor

• Lloyd Thomas, Katie [Browse]
• Amhoff, Tilo [Browse]
• Beech, Nick [Browse]

Series

• Critiques ; v. 11. [More in this series]
• Critiques : critical studies in architectural humanities ; volume 11 [More in this series]

Summary note

"At 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 Industries of Architecture 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 reproduction--finance 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 discursive frameworks we mobilise to understand them?"--Book cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Architecture and the Representation of Industry
• Architecture Responds to Industry
• The Construction Site
• The Work of Architects
• Economy
• Law and Regulation
• Technologies and Techniques
• Contemporary Questions.

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ISBN

• 9781138946811 ((hbk.))
• 1138946818 ((hbk.))
• 9781138946828 ((pbk.))
• 1138946826 ((pbk.))
• 1315670364
• 9781315670362

LCCN

2015025829

OCLC

912378788

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