The Ideal of Total Environmental Control: Knud Lönberg-Holm, Buckminster Fuller, and the SSA (Routledge Research in Architecture)

<p><p>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 1930s. A pioneering figure of the new objectivity and international constructivism in Germany in 1922 and a celebrated peer of radical figures in De Stijl, the Bauhaus, and Russian constructivism, when he emigrated to Detroit in 1923 he introduced the vanguard theory of productivism through his photography, essays, designs, and pedagogy. By following Lönberg- Holm's ongoing matrix of relations until the postwar era with the European vanguards in CIAM and former members of the Structural Study Associates (SSA), especially Fuller, Frederick Kiesler, and C. Theodore Larson, this study shows how their definition of building as a form of environmental control anticipated the contemporary disciplines of industrial ecology, industrial metabolism, and energy accounting.</p></p>

Strum, Suzanne

Reference

Routledge

This new full color architectural guide to Barcelona fills a long overdue need for visitors to one of Europe’s most design conscious cities. Starting with the ancient quarter, it covers each area of development, explaining in detail the planning and expansion of Barcelona. The incisive text and vibrant images chronicle its spine-chilling and intriguing history...here a stone insignia at the entry door for the Tribunal of the Inquisition, there a wisp of Hebrew, hinting at a synagogue, long gone. From the palaces, parks and churches of earlier centuries it moves on to Cerda’s famous 19th century grid plan, modernista and the resplendent Gaudi buildings. In the Post-Franco era, this book examines "normalization" and then the recent developments of the Olympic sites and enormous urban re-construction, the re-shaping of the waterfront, the parks and concentric ring roads. Brilliant works by both local and international architects, designers and sculptors have made this one of the outstanding cities of Europe. This is the most far-reaching guide published for decades. The author is an architect and academic who lives in Barcelona.

Barcelona Architecture (Watermark Architectural Guides)

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Watermark Press

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 1930s. A pioneering figure of the new objectivity and international constructivism in Germany in 1922 and a celebrated peer of radical figures in De Stijl, the Bauhaus, and Russian constructivism, when he emigrated to Detroit in 1923 he introduced the vanguard theory of productivism through his photography, essays, designs, and pedagogy. By following Lönberg- Holm’s ongoing matrix of relations until the postwar era with the European vanguards in CIAM and former members of the Structural Study Associates (SSA), especially Fuller, Frederick Kiesler, and C. Theodore Larson, this study shows how their definition of building as a form of environmental control anticipated the contemporary disciplines of industrial ecology, industrial metabolism, and energy accounting.

History & Criticism

Catalan language and culture revitalized after years of repression and new prosperity have fuelled a local design boom. This new guide examines a broad range of recent architecture and urbanism in the city, and provides an understanding of the historical and political contexts that have shaped the place. 150 b/w photographs.

Barcelona: A Guide to Recent Architecture

Travel

Europe

Ellipsis London Pr Ltd

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The Ideal of Total Environmental Control: Knud Lönberg-Holm, Buckminster Fuller, and the SSA (Routledge Research in Architecture)

Barcelona Architecture (Watermark Architectural Guides)

The Ideal of Total Environmental Control: Knud Lönberg-Holm, Buckminster Fuller, and the SSA (Routledge Research in Architecture)

Barcelona: A Guide to Recent Architecture