Re-Scaling the Environment : New Landscapes of Design, 1960-1980 /
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...
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| Natura: | eBook |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Basel :
Birkhäuser,
2016
©2017 |
| Serie: | East West Central : Re-building Europe 1950-1990 ;
Volume 2 |
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| Riassunto: | 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. |
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| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9783035608236 |