The responsive environment : design, aesthetics, and the human in the 1970s / Larry D. Busbea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Busbea, Larry, author.

Series:

An Inner sanctum mystery.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environment (Aesthetics).

Design--Human factors.

Design.

Design--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 285 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), plans (some color)

Other Title:

Design, aesthetics, and the human in the 1970s

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2020].

Biography/History:

"Larry D. Busbea is associate professor of art history at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He is author of Topologies: The Urban Utopia in France, 1960–1970 and Proxemics: Social Construction/­Environmental Design."--Page 286.

Summary:

"How new conceptions of human-environment interaction became central to design theories and practices in the 1970s At the end of the 1960s, new models of responsiveness between humans and their environments had a profound impact on theories and practices in architecture, design, art, technology, media, and the sciences. The resulting initiatives--design philosophies, art installations, architectural projects, exhibitions, publications, and symposia--sought to bring together insights from biology, systems theory, psychology, and anthropology with modernist legacies of total design. In The Responsive Environment, Larry D. Busbea takes up this concept of environment as an object and method of design at the height of its aesthetic, technical, and discursive elaboration. Exploring emerging paradigms of environmental perception, patterning, and control as developed by Gregory Bateson, Edward T. Hall, Wolf Hilbertz, György Kepes, Marshall McLuhan, Nicholas Negroponte, Paolo Soleri, and others, he shows how living space itself was reimagined as a domain capable of modification through input from its newly sensitized inhabitants. The Responsive Environment intercuts the development of new ideas about environmental awareness with case studies of specific architecture and design projects for responsive environments. Throughout, Busbea connects these theories and practices to the contemporary obsession with "smart" things: responsive technologies, intelligent environments, biomimetic materials, and digital atmospherics."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Invisible Environments

Pattern Watchers

Responsive Environments

Soft Control Material

Cybertecture

Arcoconsciousness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-278) and index.

Description based on online resource, publisher-supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Busbea, Larry Responsive environment

ISBN:

9781452960722

1452960720

9781452960715

1452960712

OCLC:

1134797845