Download or read book Theory and Design in the Second Machine Age written by Martin Pawley and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1990 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major figure throws down the gauntlet before his colleagues. Pawley, a European architectural critic and correspondent, points out the facts of postmodern built environments--pollution, resource depletion, urban paralysis, a global information network--and accuses architects of leaving the field to commercial interests. A sequel to Reyner Banheim's Theory and design in the first machine age (1960). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR