Technological Determinism In Twentieth-Century Architectural Theory & Design
Introduction Technological determinism is the belief that technology develops according to an internal logic and then drives social and cultural change. In architectural history, deterministic language appears whenever a new material, machine, transport system, or production method is presented as making one form of building inevitable. Twentieth-century modernists frequently described industrialization as a force that demanded a new architecture. The original essay usefully brought together Le Corbusier’s Towards a New

