Suzanne Strum

The Ideal of Total Environmental Control

Knud Lönberg-Holm, Buckminster Fuller, and the SSA

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780367364496
• ISBN-10: 0367364492
• Artikelnr.: 57785194

Autorenporträt

Suzanne Strum is an architect and scholar whose research focuses on the interrelation of technology and design. She teaches in international programs in Barcelona and was previously Co-Director of the Metropolis Master in Architecture and Urban Culture at the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain, as well as a lecturer at Elisava School of Design. She has a master's degree from Columbia University and a doctorate in the Theory and History of Architecture from the UPC, and is a recipient of the SAH/Mellon Author Awards in 2017.

Inhaltsangabe

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