Author : Martin Pawley
Release : 1990
Genre : Architecture
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 288/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Theory and Design in the Second Machine Age by : Martin Pawley
Download or read book Theory and Design in the Second Machine Age written by Martin Pawley. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major figure throws down the gauntlet before his colleagues. Pawley, a European architectural critic and correspondent, points out the facts of postmodern built environments--pollution, resource depletion, urban paralysis, a global information network--and accuses architects of leaving the field to commercial interests. A sequel to Reyner Banheim's Theory and design in the first machine age (1960). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR