Steel

A Design, Cultural and Ecological History

Tony Fry, Professor Anne-Marie Willis (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2015
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-0-85785-480-3 (ISBN)

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Steel has, over centuries, played a crucial role in shaping our material, and in particular, urban landscapes. This books undertakes a cultural and ecological history of the material, examining the relationship between steel and design at a micro and macro level – in terms of both what it has been used to design and how it has functioned as a ‘world-making force’.

The research for the book is informed by diverse sources including industry journals, contemporary accounts and technical literature – all framed by rich, early accounts of iron and steel making from the middle ages to the opening of the industrial age, and most notably, the crucial works of Vannoccio Biringuccio, Georgius Agricola, Andrew Ure and Harry Scrivenor.

In contrast, trans-cultural accounts of the history of metallurgy from eminent sinologists and cultural historians like Joseph Needham and G.E.R. Lloyd are used. Readings on the pre-history and history of science, as well as histories and philosophies technology from scholars such as Siegfried Giedion, Merritt Roe Smith, L.T.C Rolt, Robert B. Gordon inform the analysis. Social and economic history from historians such as Eric Hobsbawn, William T. Hogan and David Brody are consulted; labour process theory is also examined, particularly the influential writings of F.W. Taylor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and his contemporary critics, like David Nobel and Harry Braverman. Many other disciples also inform the account: histories of urban design and architecture, transport and military history, environmental history and geography.

Anne-Marie Willis is a design writer, editor, and educator, and currently professor of design theory at the German University in Cairo. She is editor of the international refereed journal, Design Philosophy Papers and is the author of many papers, articles and three major books. Tony Fry is professor of design, Design Futures Program, QCA, Griffith University, Australia. Tony has published nine books, most recently Design as Politics, Bloomsbury Academic (2011), has chapter/essays in twenty, and has authored approximately 200 articles and conference papers. He has lectured in many universities in Australia, North and South America, Asia and Europe, has consulted to industry (including the steel industry) and has been a member of many design teams.

Introduction

Part 1— The Ages of Iron
Chapter 1. Traffic in Ideas
Chapter 2. Ecologies of Carbon
Chapter 3. Magic, Alchemy and Science

Part 2 — The Ages of Industry
Chapter 4. The Proto-Modern
Chapter 5. Fully Mechanised Modernity
Chapter 6. Technology After the Modern

Part 3 — Towards the Ages of Sustainment
Chapter 7. Environments of Iron and Steel-making
Chapter 8. Regulating Industrial Environments
Chapter 9. Futuring: Sustainment by Design

Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.1.2015
Reihe/Serie	Design, Histories, Futures
Zusatzinfo	31 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 214 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-85785-480-1 / 0857854801
ISBN-13	978-0-85785-480-3 / 9780857854803
Zustand	Neuware