Cambridge, MA, Estados Unidos ; Londres, Inglaterra : SA+P Press ; MIT Press, c2013.

ix, 916 p. : il. ; 25 cm.

INTRODUCTION. -- Linguistics, not grammatology: architecture's a prioris and architecture's priorities. -- HUMANITIES. -- The MIT chapel: an interdiscursive history. -- How useful? the stakes of architectural history, theory and criticism at MIT, 1945-1976. -- The middleman: Kepe's instruments. -- SPONSORSHIP. -- Centerbeam: art of the environment. -- The pedagogy of prefabrication: building research at MIT in the postwar. -- Experimental dwellings: modern architecture and environmental research at the MIT solar energy fund. -- THE CITY. -- From master-planning to self-build: the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, 1959-1971. -- Fuzzy images: the problem of third world development and the new ethics of open-ended planning at the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies. -- Discourse, seek, interact: urban systems at MIT. -- Disoriented: Kevin Lynch, around 1960. -- SYSTEMS. -- Predictive machines: data, computer maps, and simulation. -- Alexander's choice: how architecture avoided computer-aided design c. 1962. -- Artist/system. -- The alternative firmitas of Maurice Smith. -- NETWORKS. -- Case and MIT: engagement. -- Two Cambridges: models, methods, systems, and expertise. -- Toward a nation of universities: architecture and planning education at MIT circa the 1940s. -- MEMOIRS. -- 1955-1956: biography of a year in graduate school. -- Three episodes, three roles. -- Arts/science/technology. -- We were bricoleurs. -- Structure-infill, Wittgenstein, and other matters. -- CAVEAT. -- Newton's apple tree: a non-standard version. --

Tomado de Amazon: "After World War II, a second modernism emerged in architecture -- an attempt, in architectural scholar Joan Ockman's words, "to transform architecture from a 'soft' aesthetic discipline into a 'hard,' objectively verifiable field of design expertise." Architectural thought was influenced by linguistic, behavioral, computational, mediatic, cybernetic, and other urban and behavioral models, as well as systems-based and artificial intelligence theories. This nearly 1,000-page book examines the "techno-social" turn in architecture, taking MIT's School of Architecture and Planning as its exemplar. In essays and interviews, prominent architectural historians and educators examine the postwar "research-industrial" complex, its attendant cult of expertise, and its influence on life and letters both in America and abroad. Paying particular attention to the ways that technological thought affected the culture of the humanities, the social sciences, and architectural design, the book traces this shift toward complexity as it unfolded, from classroom practices to committee deliberations, from the challenges of research to the vicissitudes of funding. Looking closely at the ways that funded research drew academics towards a "problem-solving" and relevance-seeking mentality and away from the imported Bauhaus model of intuition and aesthetics, the book reveals how linguistics, information sciences, operations research, computer technology, and systems theory became part of architecture's expanded toolkit. This is a history not just of a school of architecture but of the research-oriented era itself. It offers a thoroughgoing exploration of the ways that policies, politics, and pedagogy transformed themselves in accord with the exponential growth of institutional power." --

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