From New Empiricism to Structuralism. The Swedish National Board of Public Building (KBS)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Foreword. East West Central: Re-Building Europe 7
4. Introduction. On Systems and System Change 13
5. I. Technology: New Scales and Projects
6. Zooming In: The Powers of Scale, 1960–1980 23
7. The Choreography of the Console: Electronic Environments and their Operators 41
8. Rittel’s Riddles: Design Education and “Democratic” Planning in the Age of Information 61
9. Nested Utopias: GEAM’s Large-Scale Designs 81
10. On Bees and Bolts: Školka SIAL – An Architects’ Commune in Czechoslovakia 97
11. II. Planning, Design and Territory
12. Le Corbusier’s “Geo-Architecture” and the Emergence of Territorial Aesthetics 115
13. Projective Geographies Between East and West 135
14. Towards the Functional Society: Paradigm Shifts in the Regional Planning of West and East Germany 153
15. Vacationing within the Walls. The Design and Development of Holiday Resorts in the GDR 173
16. Urbanism and Academia: Teaching Urban Design in the East 189
17. III. Practices and Agencies
18. Architectural Intelligence and Scarcity-Driven Design in the 1960s Yugoslavia 199
19. From New Empiricism to Structuralism. The Swedish National Board of Public Building (KBS) 215
20. Courtyards, Corners, Streetfronts: Re-Imagining Mass Housing Areas in Tallinn 233
21. “Complex Projects”: Landscape Architecture as the Integrating Discipline 253
22. UIA, R. Buckminster Fuller, and the Architectural Consequences of “Total Environment” 271
23. New Agencies: Convergent Frameworks of Research and Architectural Design 291
24. Appendix
25. Notes on Contributors 309
26. Index 315