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Beschreibung
Developing "sustainable" architectural and agricultural technologies was the intent behind Blueprint Farm, an experimental agricultural project designed to benefit farm workers displaced by the industrialization of agriculture in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Yet, despite its promise, the very institutions that created Blueprint Farm terminated the project after just four years (1987-1991).

In this book, Steven Moore demonstrates how the various stakeholders' competing definitions of "sustainability," "technology," and "place" ultimately doomed Blueprint Farm. He reconstructs the conflicting interests and goals of the founders, including Jim Hightower and the Texas Department of Agriculture, Laredo Junior College, and the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, and shows how, ironically, they unwittingly suppressed the self-determination of the very farm workers the project sought to benefit. From the instructive failure of Blueprint Farm, Moore extracts eight principles for a regenerative architecture, which he calls his "nonmodern manifesto."
Developing "sustainable" architectural and agricultural technologies was the intent behind Blueprint Farm, an experimental agricultural project designed to benefit farm workers displaced by the industrialization of agriculture in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Yet, despite its promise, the very institutions that created Blueprint Farm terminated the project after just four years (1987-1991).

In this book, Steven Moore demonstrates how the various stakeholders' competing definitions of "sustainability," "technology," and "place" ultimately doomed Blueprint Farm. He reconstructs the conflicting interests and goals of the founders, including Jim Hightower and the Texas Department of Agriculture, Laredo Junior College, and the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, and shows how, ironically, they unwittingly suppressed the self-determination of the very farm workers the project sought to benefit. From the instructive failure of Blueprint Farm, Moore extracts eight principles for a regenerative architecture, which he calls his "nonmodern manifesto."
Über den Autor
Steven A. Moore is Bartlett Cocke Regents Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Foreword by Kenneth Frampton
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. A Question of Categories
    • Modernity, Technology, and Place
    • Critical Regionalism
    • Toward a Nonmodern Alternative
  • Chapter 2. A Reconstruction from the File
  • Chapter 3. The Local History of Space
    • Place, Technology, and Technological Networks
    • La Frontera Chica
    • Narrowing Horizons of Spatial Discourse
  • Chapter 4. Conflicting Intentions
    • The Concept of Intentionality
    • Networks of Intention
    • Uninhabited Intentions
  • Chapter 5. Technological Interventions
    • Traditions in Science and Technology Studies
    • Making Problems Go Away
    • Democracy and Participation
  • Chapter 6. Reception
    • Reception Theory
    • Mixed Receptions
    • Received Paradigms
  • Chapter 7. Reproduction
    • The Production of Facts
    • Spreading Claims
    • Sublime Reproductions
  • Chapter 8. Eight Propositions
    • Summary Propositions
    • The Nonmodern Thesis
    • Eight Points for Regenerative Architecture: A Nonmodern Manifesto
  • Appendix. The Things Themselves
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Fachbereich: Technik allgemein
Genre: Importe, Technik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780292752450
ISBN-10: 0292752458
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Moore, Steven A.
Hersteller: University of Texas Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Steven A. Moore
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2001
Gewicht: 0,421 kg
Artikel-ID: 105285593

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