Main entry:

Šenk, Peter, author.

Title & Author:

Capsules : typology of other architecture / Peter Šenk.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
©2018

Description:

xv, 195 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:
Translation from Slovenian of: Kapsula.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frame(work) -- Development: pioneers and contemporaries : Subsistence minimum (existenzminimum), CIAM, and the new generation ; From Buckminster Fuller to counterculture 1960 ; British techno-utopia and experiments for the immediate future ; Japanese metabolism and the philosophy of change -- Catalog: typology and its manifestations : Autonomous cells ; Connective cells -- Medium: typology and image : Envelope: protection and representation (exterior) ; Envelope: comfort equipment and feedback simulation (interior) ; Prefabrication integrity (structure, function, representation) ; Temporaries (time and space) ; Mobility (movement) -- Coda : In pursuit of other architecture.

Summary:

This book investigates the architectural, product design, and urban typology of the capsule which, beginning in the 1960s, broadened the concept of the basic building blocks of architecture to include a minimal living unit, called the "capsule." Here it is presented with regard to the continuity of the development of the Modern Movement, its revisionist criticism, pioneering examples, as well as contemporary examples and uses. The typology of the capsule allows us to consider this theme in terms of the architecture of resistance, with the potential to search for an "other" architecture that is embedded in our contemporaneity (manifested in small dwellings, composite structures, and container units; shelters and mobile homes in nature and the urban environment; technology transfer in high-tech designs; devices, additions, and extensions, etc.). The concept of the capsule as a building element of architecture, as well as a spatial element, can therefore be regarded as having a generative potential for an architecture of personal space for the individual, forcing us to reflect on our existing living and dwelling conditions. Book jacket.

ISBN:

9781138280342 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1138280348 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9781138280359 (paperback alkaline paper)
1138280356 (paperback alkaline paper)
(electronic book)
9781315272177

Subject:

Buildings, Prefabricated Design and construction.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Designs and plans.
Architecture, Modern 21st century Designs and plans.
Architecture 20e siècle Dessins et plans.
Architecture 21e siècle Dessins et plans.
Architecture, Modern

Form/genre:

architectural drawings (visual works)
Architectural drawings
Dessins d'architecture.
Designs and plans.

Added entries:

Šenk, Peter. Kapsula.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 297659
Call No.: BIB 244011
Status: External loan