The Ideal of Total Environmental Control
Knud Loenberg-Holm, Buckminster Fuller, and the SSA
Published on 19. October 2017
250 pages
978-1-351-78725-3 (ISBN)
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**Finalist for the Thought and Criticism category of the FAD Awards 2019**
This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Loenberg- 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 Loenberg- 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.
This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Loenberg- 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 Loenberg- 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
11 Line drawings, black and white; 37 Halftones, black and white; 48 Illustrations, black and white
File size
28,96 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-78725-3 (9781351787253)
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Suzanne Strum
The Ideal of Total Environmental Control
Knud Loenberg-Holm, Buckminster Fuller, and the SSA
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Suzanne Strum
The Ideal of Total Environmental Control
Knud Loenberg-Holm, Buckminster Fuller, and the SSA
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10/2017
1st Edition
Routledge
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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 Politecnica 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.
Content
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Knud Loenberg-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
