Volume 2 Re-Scaling the Environment: New Landscapes of Design, 1960-1980

Published by Birkhäuser 2017

Volume 2 Re-Scaling the Environment

New Landscapes of Design, 1960-1980

Edited by: Ákos Moravánszky and Karl R. Kegler

Part of the multi-volume work East West Central

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035608236

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Europe’s architectural trends 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 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.

Architectural parallels between different political systems in Europe
People, buildings, theories, rules – a synopsis with a new dimension
Contributions by numerous international experts

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Ákos Moravánszky, ETH Zürich

Karl R. Kegler, University of Applied Sciences Munich

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Foreword. East West Central: Re-Building Europe Ákos Moravánszky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Introduction. On Systems and System Change Karl R. Kegler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
I. Technology: New Scales and Projects
Zooming In: The Powers of Scale, 1960–1980 Ákos Moravánszky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
The Choreography of the Console: Electronic Environments and their Operators David Crowley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Rittel’s Riddles: Design Education and “Democratic” Planning in the Age of Information Torsten Lange Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Nested Utopias: GEAM’s Large-Scale Designs Cornelia Escher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
On Bees and Bolts: Školka SIAL – An Architects’ Commune in Czechoslovakia Mirko Baum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
II. Planning, Design and Territory
Le Corbusier’s “Geo-Architecture” and the Emergence of Territorial Aesthetics Hashim Sarkis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Projective Geographies Between East and West Kenny Cupers and Igor Demchenko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Towards the Functional Society: Paradigm Shifts in the Regional Planning of West and East Germany Karl R. Kegler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Vacationing within the Walls. The Design and Development of Holiday Resorts in the GDR Daniela Spiegel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Urbanism and Academia: Teaching Urban Design in the East Tamás Meggyesi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
III. Practices and Agencies
Architectural Intelligence and Scarcity-Driven Design in the 1960s Yugoslavia Ljiljana Blagojević Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
From New Empiricism to Structuralism. The Swedish National Board of Public Building (KBS) Erik Sigge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Courtyards, Corners, Streetfronts: Re-Imagining Mass Housing Areas in Tallinn Andres Kurg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
“Complex Projects”: Landscape Architecture as the Integrating Discipline Axel Zutz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
UIA, R. Buckminster Fuller, and the Architectural Consequences of “Total Environment” Andreas Kalpakci Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
New Agencies: Convergent Frameworks of Research and Architectural Design Piotr Bujas and Alicja Gzowska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Appendix
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315

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Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Architects, architectural historians, art historians, students
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 165
Keywords: Postwar Architecture; Europe; Architectural History; Architekturgeschichte; Nachkriegsmoderne; Europa

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Published: December 19, 2016
ISBN: 9783035608236

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Published: December 19, 2016
ISBN: 9783035610161