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Re-scaling the Environment: New Landscapes of Design, 1960-1980
Moravanszky Akos
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Description for Re-scaling the Environment: New Landscapes of Design, 1960-1980
Paperback. Between 1960 and 1980, both eastern and western Europe experienced a construction boom of hitherto unknown dimensions. The new possibilities offered by science and industry paved the way to large-scale projects in architecture and urban design. This book deals with this topic. Editor(s): Moravanszky, Akos; Lange, Torsten; Hopfengartner, Judith; Kegler, Karl R. Num Pages: 320 pages, 165 colour illustrations, 165 farb. Abb. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 169 x 246 x 21. Weight in Grams: 784.
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 – ... Read more
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 – ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Birkhauser
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, Switzerland
ISBN
9783035610161
SKU
V9783035610161
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99-15
About Moravanszky Akos
Ákos Moravánszky, ETH Zürich Karl R. Kegler, University of Applied Sciences Munich
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