Main entry:

Murphy, Douglas, author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2016.

Description:

234 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-226) and index.
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.
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.
Dust jacket.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Resources:
Cover image

ISBN:

9781781689752 (HB)
178168975X (HB)
(e ; US)
9781781689813
(e ; UK)
9781781689752
9781781689806

Subject:

Architectural design History 20th century.
Architectural design Social aspects.
Architecture Forecasting.
Design architectural Histoire 20e siècle.
Design architectural Aspect social.
21.62 history of architecture.
ARCHITECTURE Criticism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy City Planning & Urban Development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Future Studies.
Architectural design.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291776
Call No.: BIB 235573
Status: External loan