Main entry:

Anker, Peder.

Title & Author:

From Bauhaus to ecohouse : a history of ecological design / Peder Anker.

Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©2010.

Description:

viii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-175) and index.
The Bauhaus of nature -- Planning the economy of nature -- The new American Bauhaus of nature -- The graphic environment of Herbert Bayer -- Buckminster Fuller as captain of spaceship earth -- The ecological colonization of space -- Taking ground control of spaceship earth -- The closed world of ecological architecture -- Conclusion: the unification of art and science.
Dust jacket.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

From Publishers Weekly: The growing public profile of climate change concerns have brought ecologically-minded programs like LEED to the forefront of today's building design industry, but New York University science historian Anker claims, in this 50-year survey, that design has long been linked to ecology and science. The Bauhaus school began this interchange in the 1930s, "a period in which many biologists turned their attention to avant-garde modernist architecture-as a way of improving social health and the environment" while designers looked to biology: "true functionalism to them was a matter of designing according to the laws of nature." Anker profiles designers including Gropius, Bayer, and Fuller, and discusses attempts to integrate design and nature in projects like the London Zoo, Fuller's "4D Tower House," Biosphere 2, and spacecraft. Disappointingly, Anker's history ends in the 1980s, appended with some generalizations about the present (as well as a glossary and thorough references). A lack of illustration will also limit this detailed (though didactic) volume's appeal to students and professionals.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780807135518 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0807135518 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Environmental aspects.
Architecture and science History 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Architecture et sciences Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture and science
Bauökologie
Sustainable architecture.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266321
Call No.: BIB 198018
Status: Available