Capsules: Typology of Other Architecture: Typology of Other Architecture

ISBN-13: 9781138280359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 196 str.

Peter Senk

Opis

This book investigates the architectural design and urban typology of the capsule which, beginning in the 1960s, broadened the concept of the basic building blocks of architecture to include a minimal living unit, called the "capsule."

Spis treści

1. Frame(work). 2. Development:  Pioneers and Contemporaries.  Subsistence Minimum (Existenzminimum).  CIAM and the New Generation.  From Buckminster Fuller to Counterculture 1960.  British Techno-Utopia and Experiments for the Immediate Future.  Japanese Metabolism and the Philosophy of Change.  3. Catalog: Typology and Its Manifestation.  Autonomous Cells.  Connective Cells.  4. Medium: Typology and Image.  Envelope: Protection and Representation (Exterior).  Envelope: Comfort Equipment and Feedback Simulation (Interior).  Prefabricated Integrity (Structure, Function, Representation).  Temporariness (Time and Space).  Mobility (Movement).  5. Coda: In Pursuit of Other Architecture.  Select Bibliography.  Index.

O autorze

Peter Šenk is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Spatial Planning at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Architecture at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. He is a researcher and writer in the field of architecture, urban planning, and visual culture, an architect (co-founder of Studio Stratum), and a curator (at the House of Architecture, Maribor).