"Weaving together material instruments and mental habits, professional organization and artistic imagination, Design Technics brilliantly demonstrates that design techniques such as modeling, scanning, and specifying enable us to write a different history of architecture. Instead of focusing on authors and buildings, Zeynep Ēelik Alexander and John May focus on the concrete operations of the discipline-operations that are nevertheless inseparable from larger perspectives, for techniques contribute to the construction of the human."-Antoine Picon, author of Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence
"The historical range of the essays is broad, allowing the reader to see the development of these different practices starting in the 19th century and continuing though the 20th century."-CHOICE
"The essays gathered in Design Technics: Archaeologies of Architectural Practice propose a welcome departure from historiographical entrapments."-Critical Inquiry
"Questioning and engaging with the mantra of the digital, this collection unearths the old relationship of architecture with techne, the ancient Greek word that best uncovers the root of this ongoing problem."-Technology and Culture
"This deeply researched kaleidoscopic investigation of architectures technics operates on several levels: as histories of tools, as media archaeologies of their matter and handling, as genealogies of architectural processes, and, not least, as stories told of the historization of the discipline of architecture."-Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society
"The editors redefine architectural practice as a plural field of activities entangled with technics-a key term they use to signify both artifacts and processes."-Journal of Architectural Education
