Re-Scaling the Environment • New Landscapes of Design, 1960-1980

Re-Scaling the Environment • New Landscapes of Design, 1960-1980

Ákos Moravánszky, Karl R. Kegler (Eds.)
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.

Birkhäuser, East West Central - Re-Building Europe 1950-1990 Vol. 2, english, Paperback, 317 pages