The Ideal of Total Environmental Control: Knud Lönberg-Holm, Buckminster Fuller, and the Ssa

ISBN-13: 9781138703353 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 236 str.

Suzanne Strum

Opis

This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Lönberg-Holm, a forgotten Danish architect who promoted a unique systemic, cybernetic, and ecological vision of architecture in the 1930´s.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Knud Lönberg-Holm: A Productivist Architect in America 2. Monuments and Instruments: The SSA and the International Style 3. Industrial Emancipation and Technocracy in the 1930's 4. Sweets Catalog and Repro-Shelter 5. Information Architectures 6. The Archetype of the Invisible Architects of Invisible Architectures Bibliography Index