Last Futures (eBook)

Nature, Technology and the End of Architecture

Douglas Murphy (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016 | Ebook UK & RoW
240 Seiten
Verso (Verlag)
978-1-78168-980-6 (ISBN)

Infos

In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil, and the decline of great cities throughout the world. Out of this crisis came a new generation of thinkers, designers and engineers who hoped to build a better future, influenced by visions of geodesic domes, walking cities, and a meaningful connection with nature. In this brilliant work of cultural history, architect Douglas Murphy traces the lost archeology of the present-day through the works of thinkers and designers such as Buckminster Fuller, the ecological pioneer Stewart Brand, the Archigram architects who envisioned the Plug-In City in the '60s, as well as co-operatives in Vienna, communes in the Californian desert, and protesters on the streets of Paris. In this mind-bending account of the last avant garde, we see not just the source of our current problems but also some powerful alternative futures.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.7.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Archigram • Buckminster Fuller • geodesic domes • Jane Jacobs • megastructures • Silicon Valley • Whole Earth Catalog
• ISBN-10: 1-78168-980-6 / 1781689806
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-980-6 / 9781781689806