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Last Futures: Nature, Technology and the End of Architecture

Last Futures: Nature, Technology and the End of Architecture
Library Shelf Location 10.MURP
Publication Date 2015
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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.

ISBN 9781781689752
Quantity 1
Pages 240p; 14.7 x 2.3 x 21.8 cm
Author Douglas Murphy
Format Hardback
Publisher Verso Books, London and New York
Category Architecture (category)
Language English

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