Envisioning an evolving environment : the encounters of Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer. / Gonçalo Miguel Furtado Cardoso Lopes.

Main entry:

Furtado, Gonçalo.

Title & Author:

Envisioning an evolving environment : the encounters of Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer. / Gonçalo Miguel Furtado Cardoso Lopes.

Publication:

2007.

Description:

426 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.

Notes:
"This thesis provides a history of exchanges between architecture and the fields of cybernetics, systems research and computation, throughout the period of the last half century. In particular, it focuses on the encounters of the British professionals - Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer - and provides a complete account of two outstanding architectural projects related to systems and computation - Generator and Japan Net. It also highlights the architectural relevance of these encounters and the importance of their contemporary legacy - the genesis of the systemic and computational paradigm in architectural design and the promotion of an evolving environment. The thesis is based mainly on the research of Gordon Pask's personal archive...and Cedric Price Archives..."--Leaf 3.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of London, 2007.
Library copy: author's autograph presentation copy to Howard Schubert; includes reproductions of CCA collection material.
Library copy: [3] leaves stapled to verso of leaf 1: a corrected abstract, a reference to another of the author's works, "Towards a responsive architecture : Cedric Price's Generator and systems research", and an errata sheet.

Subject:

Pask, Gordon.
Price, Cedric.
Frazer, John.
Generator Project.
Japan Net (Project)
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architectural design History 20th century.
Cybernetics History 20th century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Design architectural Histoire 20e siècle.
Cybernétique Histoire 20e siècle.
Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern.
Cybernetics.
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Form/genre:

Theses.
History.

Added entries:

Presentation copies. Furtado, Gonçalo. Inscription.
Autographs. Furtado, Gonçalo.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 263482
Call No.: NA44.P9455.9 F8 2007
Status: Available

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