East West Central : : Re-building Europe, 1950-1990.

East West Central : : Re-building Europe, 1950-1990. / Volume 2, : Re-Scaling the Environment ; New Landscapes of Design, 1960-1980 / / ed. by Ákos Moravánszky, Karl R. Kegler.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Baum, Mirko,
Blagojević, Ljiljana,
Bujas, Piotr,
Crowley, David,
Cupers, Kenny,
Demchenko, Igor,
Escher, Cornelia,
Gzowska, Alicja,
Kalpakci, Andreas,
Kegler, Karl R.,
Kurg, Andres,
Lange, Torsten,
Meggyesi, Tamás,
Moravánszky, Ákos,
Sarkis, Hashim,
Sigge, Erik,
Spiegel, Daniela,
Zutz, Axel,
HerausgeberIn:
Kegler, Karl R.,
Moravánszky, Ákos,
Place / Publishing House:Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2016]
©2017
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:East West Central ; Volume 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword. East West Central: Re-Building Europe
  • Introduction. On Systems and System Change
  • I. Technology: New Scales and Projects
  • Zooming In: The Powers of Scale, 1960–1980
  • The Choreography of the Console: Electronic Environments and their Operators
  • Rittel’s Riddles: Design Education and “Democratic” Planning in the Age of Information
  • Nested Utopias: GEAM’s Large-Scale Designs
  • On Bees and Bolts: Školka SIAL – An Architects’ Commune in Czechoslovakia
  • II. Planning, Design and Territory
  • Le Corbusier’s “Geo-Architecture” and the Emergence of Territorial Aesthetics
  • Projective Geographies Between East and West
  • Towards the Functional Society: Paradigm Shifts in the Regional Planning of West and East Germany
  • Vacationing within the Walls. The Design and Development of Holiday Resorts in the GDR
  • Urbanism and Academia: Teaching Urban Design in the East
  • III. Practices and Agencies
  • Architectural Intelligence and Scarcity-Driven Design in the 1960s Yugoslavia
  • From New Empiricism to Structuralism. The Swedish National Board of Public Building (KBS)
  • Courtyards, Corners, Streetfronts: Re-Imagining Mass Housing Areas in Tallinn
  • “Complex Projects”: Landscape Architecture as the Integrating Discipline
  • UIA, R. Buckminster Fuller, and the Architectural Consequences of “Total Environment”
  • New Agencies: Convergent Frameworks of Research and Architectural Design
  • Appendix
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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