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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Murphy, Douglas, author.     Subjects     Architectural design -- History -- 20th century.     Architectural design -- Social aspects.     Architecture -- Forecasting.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Murphy, Douglas, author.       by title:      Last futures [electr...         MARC Display

Last futures [electronic resource] : nature, technology and the end of architecture / Douglas Murphy. by Murphy, Douglas, author. London : Verso, 2016. Subjects Architectural design -- History -- 20th century.   Architectural design -- Social aspects.   Architecture -- Forecasting. Electronic Resource http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=50&titleID=2179530 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2a8e01ff-9cb2-4895-83cd-34c71f25af93&.epub-sample.overdrive.com ISBN:  9781781689813 (electronic bk.) 1781689814 (electronic bk.) 9781781689752 178168975X Description:  1 online resource : illustrations 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. Requests:  0 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"--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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