Description
Re-Scaling the Environment New Landscapes of Design, 1960-1980 Volume 2
- Architectural parallels between different political systems in Europe
- People, buildings, theories, rules – a synopsis with a new dimension
- Contributions by numerous international experts
Aims and Scope
From 1960–1980, both eastern and western Europe experienced a construction boom of new dimensions. Cybernetics, the science of planning, and sociology, as well as the new possibilities offered by technology and production, paved the way to large-scale processes and systems in architecture and urban design, which favored technocratic and utopian concepts. Increasingly, architects and planners saw themselves as designers of comprehensive infrastructure and mega-structures in a technology-focused world.
The authors assesses these developments on the back of a knowledge transfer between East and West. It confirms a change in attitude that can still be felt today – recession, social changes, and environmental problems led to criticism of the then contemporary concepts of modernity.
CONTENTS
- Foreword. East West Central: Re-Building Europe / Moravánszky, Ákos
- Introduction. On Systems and System Change / Kegler, Karl R.
I. Technology: New Scales and Projects
- Zooming In: The Powers of Scale, 1960–1980 / Moravánszky, Ákos
- The Choreography of the Console: Electronic Environments and their Operators / Crowley, David
- Rittel’s Riddles: Design Education and “Democratic” Planning in the Age of Information / Lange, Torsten
- Nested Utopias: GEAM’s Large-Scale Designs / Escher, Cornelia
- On Bees and Bolts: Školka SIAL – An Architects’ Commune in Czechoslovakia /
- Baum, Mirko
II. Planning, Design and Territory
- Le Corbusier’s “Geo-Architecture” and the Emergence of Territorial Aesthetics / Sarkis, Hashim
- Projective Geographies Between East and West / Cupers, Kenny / Demchenko, Igor
- Towards the Functional Society: Paradigm Shifts in the Regional Planning of West and East Germany / Kegler, Karl R.
- Vacationing within the Walls. The Design and Development of Holiday Resorts in the GDR / Spiegel, Daniela
- Urbanism and Academia: Teaching Urban Design in the East / Meggyesi, Tamás
III. Practices and Agencies
- Architectural Intelligence and Scarcity-Driven Design in the 1960s Yugoslavia / Blagojević, Ljiljana
- From New Empiricism to Structuralism. The Swedish National Board of Public Building (KBS) / Sigge, Erik
- Courtyards, Corners, Streetfronts: Re-Imagining Mass Housing Areas in Tallinn / Kurg, Andres
- “Complex Projects”: Landscape Architecture as the Integrating Discipline / Zutz, Axel
- UIA, R. Buckminster Fuller, and the Architectural Consequences of “Total Environment” / Kalpakci, Andreas
- New Agencies: Convergent Frameworks of Research and Architectural Design /
Bujas, Piotr / Gzowska, Alicja - Appendix, Notes on Contributors, Index
320 pages, 165 colour illustrations / 16,5 x 24,5 cm / English
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