The architecture of closed worlds, or, What is the power of shit? / Lydia Kallipoliti.

Main entry:

Kallipoliti, Lydia, 1976- author.

Title & Author:

The architecture of closed worlds, or, What is the power of shit? / Lydia Kallipoliti.

Publication:

Zürich, Switzerland : Lars Müller Publishers, [2018]
©2018

Description:

298 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
"Storefront for Art and Architecture"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-298).
37 living prototypes : Timeline of closed worlds -- 1928 Cunningham Sanitarium -- 1931 FNRS Balloon -- 1943 Aqualung -- 1956 Thermoheliodon -- 1956 House of the Future -- 1960 Climatron -- 1960 NASA Langley Simulator -- 1962 Geoscope -- 1962 Conshelf (1962-65) -- 1964 Clivus Multrum -- 1966 Biological Waste System -- 1966 EPCOT -- 1967 Man+ -- 1969 Grumman Integrated Household -- 1969 SEEK -- 1970 Clean Air Pod -- 1972 Autonomous dome -- 1972 Bios-3 -- 1972 Ecological house -- 1972 Gobar Gas Plant -- 1973 Earth Workshop -- 1974 Suntek Bioshelter -- 1974 Integral urban house -- 1976 Sundwellings -- 1976 The Ark of Cape Cod -- 1979 The Liberated House -- 1981 West Edmonton Mall -- 1982 Rocky Mountain Institute -- 1986 Biospheric Test Module -- 1991 BIOSPHERE 2 -- 1993 The Autonomous House -- 1994 MSU EPICenter -- 1995 MeLiSSA Pilot Plant -- 2000 Eden Project -- 2003 AMPS -- 2007 Mars500 -- 2008 Masdar CIty -- A minor history of man, environmental awareness, books, and design speculations of closed worlds : Figures of man ; Institutionalizing environmental awareness ; Publications ; Speculative design projects -- Encounters that never happened : Mark Wigley X Buckminster Fuller ; Bess Krietemeyer X Erik Nitsche of General Dynamics -- Michelle Addington X NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Closed worlds, bubbles, and voluntary containment.

ISBN:

9783037785805 (paperback)
3037785802 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture Environmental aspects.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Closed respiratory systems (Space environment)
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Architecture 20e siècle.

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Storefront Gallery for Art and Architecture.

What is the power of shit?

Holdings:

Location: Library main 303109
Call No.: BIB 249324
Status: Available

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