Ideal of Total Environmental Control - Knud Loenberg-Holm, Buckminster Fuller, and the Ssa

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Suzanne Strum, Suzanne (College of Architects of Catalonia Strum, Strum Suzanne
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2017
• EAN: 9781138703353
• ISBN: 978-1-138-70335-3
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Routledge Research in Architecture; Routledge Research in Architecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, History of Architecture, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Urban communities, Theory of architecture, Civil engineering, surveying and building