Entrée principale:

Kwinter, Sanford.

Titre et auteur:

Far from equilibrium : essays on technology and design culture / Sanford Kwinter ; edited by Cynthia Davidson.

Publication:

Barcelona ; New York : Actar-D, [2007]

Description:

191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
A collection of author's essays, chiefly from ANY magazine -- p. [8].
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : De L'Audace -- The mechanical bride (stripped bare by her bachelors) : Playboys of the western world ; Mach 1 (and other mystic visitations) -- Roman noir : Leap in the void: a new organon ; Fuller themselves -- The new immanence : La Trahison des Clercs (and other travesties of the modern) ; The "Avant-garde" in America (or The fallacy of misplaced concreteness) -- Space without qualities (post-Fordism) : The cruelty of numbers -- Cobble stones beneath the beach : The wiring and waning of the world -- Vortex : Architecture and the technologies of life ; Play time -- Architecture and air : Radical anamnesis (mourning the future) ; Who's afraid of formalism? ; What's eating Charles Gwathmey (and his generation)? -- Infrared, the treason of language and the failure of geometric imagination -- Rational irrationalism : The geometry of cinders ; Formal, informal and the Jewish question -- Animal machine : New Babylons: urbanism for the new millennium ; Wildness (prolegomena to a new urbanism).

Ressources:
TOC

ISBN:

9788496540644 (paperback)
8496540642 (paperback)

Sujet:

Design Environmental aspects.
Design and technology.
Design Aspect de l'environnement.
Design et technologie.
Industriell formgivning.
Design miljöaspekter essäer.
Design tekniska aspekter essäer.

Classification/genre:

Distinctive covers.

Vedettes secondaires:

Davidson, Cynthia C.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 256199
Cote: BIB 186516
Statut: Disponible