| Technology and Place: Sustainable Architecture and the Blueprint Farm Contributor(s): Moore, Steven a. (Author), Frampton, Kenneth (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0292752458 ISBN-13: 9780292752450 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $28.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2001 Annotation: 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 farmworkers 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". |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - General - Business & Economics | Development - Sustainable Development - Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 631.209 |
| LCCN: 00010975 |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 5.52" W x 9" (1.04 lbs) 286 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Texas |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Moore, Steven A.: - Steven A. Moore is Bartlett Cocke Regents Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. |