Technology and Place

Steven A. Moore is Bartlett Cocke Regents Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.

• 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

"I consider this book the most insightful discussion of place and technology I have encountered over the past twenty years of thinking about place and its role in modern society... I think that it will create an intellectual stir and give a significant boost to scholarship bringing together social science and the design professions." John Agnew, Professor and Chair of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles