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- ISBN 9783035610161
- Weight: 787g
- Dimensions: 165 x 245mm
- Publication Date: 19 Dec 2016
- Publisher: Birkhauser
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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From 1960–1980, both eastern and western Europe experienced a construction boom of new dimensions. Cybernetics, the science of planning, and sociology, as well as the new possibilities offered by technology and production, paved the way to large-scale processes and systems in architecture and urban design, which favored technocratic and utopian concepts. Increasingly, architects and planners saw themselves as designers of comprehensive infrastructure and mega-structures in a technology-focused world.
The authors assesses these developments on the back of a knowledge transfer between East and West. It confirms a change in attitude that can still be felt today – recession, social changes, and environmental problems led to criticism of the then contemporary concepts of modernity.
Ákos Moravánszky, ETH Zürich
Karl R. Kegler, University of Applied Sciences Munich
