Overview

Developing ""sustainable"" architectural and agricultural technologies was the intent behind Blueprint Farm, an experimental agricultural project designed to benefit farm workers displaced by the industrialisation 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 ""non-modern manifesto.""

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Author:   Steven A. Moore ,  Kenneth Frampton
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780292752450

ISBN 10:   0292752458
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   01 July 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Kenneth FramptonPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. A Question of Categories Modernity, Technology, and Place Critical Regionalism Toward a Nonmodern AlternativeChapter 2. A Reconstruction from the FileChapter 3. The Local History of Space Place, Technology, and Technological Networks La Frontera Chica Narrowing Horizons of Spatial DiscourseChapter 4. Conflicting Intentions The Concept of Intentionality Networks of Intention Uninhabited IntentionsChapter 5. Technological Interventions Traditions in Science and Technology Studies Making Problems Go Away Democracy and ParticipationChapter 6. Reception Reception Theory Mixed Receptions Received ParadigmsChapter 7. Reproduction The Production of Facts Spreading Claims Sublime ReproductionsChapter 8. Eight Propositions Summary Propositions The Nonmodern Thesis Eight Points for Regenerative Architecture: A Nonmodern ManifestoAppendix. The Things ThemselvesNotesReferencesIndex

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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

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

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