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Last futures : nature, technology and the end of architecture / Douglas Murphy

Author
Murphy, Douglas
Published
London ; New York : Verso, 2016.
Physical Description
234 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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Contents
Museums of the Future -- The City out of History -- Megastructure Visions -- Systems and Failures -- Cybernetic Dreams Reactions and Defeats -- Apocalypse Then -- Biospheres and the End.
Summary
"In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil and the decline of great cities throughout the world. Out of this crisis came a new generation that hoped to build a better future, influenced by visions of geodesic domes, walking cities and a meaningful connection with nature. In this brilliant work of cultural history, architect Douglas Murphy traces the lost archeology of the present day through the works of thinkers and designers such as Buckminster Fuller, the ecological pioneer Stewart Brand, the Archigram architects who envisioned the Plug-In City in the '60s, as well as co-operatives in Vienna, communes in the Californian desert and protesters on the streets of Paris. In this mind-bending account of the last avant-garde, we see not just the source of our current problems but also some powerful alternative futures"--
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ISBN
9781781689752 (HB)
178168975X (HB)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-226) and index.
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the Sylvia Stein Memorial Libraries Endowment; 2016
Endowment Note
Sylvia Stein Memorial Libraries Endowment
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