Technology and the Politics of Sustainability at Blueprint Demonstration Farm

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Public concern for the environmental sustainability of development has required that architects understand technology in other than instrumental terms. Architecture, however, lacks a vocabulary that enables practitioners to adequately understand the social construction of technological systems. The case of Blueprint Demonstration Farm in Laredo, Texas, provides an opportunity to examine a technological controversy in the development of sustainable architecture in terms developed by science and technology studies. Understood through this literature, the tragic demise of the selected case is interpreted to be the suppression of democratic space by the advocates of technological determinism in architecture.

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