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McLuhan's Environment: The End (and The Beginnings) of Architecture.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Busbea, Larry, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architectural criticism.
- Cybernetics.
- Modern movement (Architecture).
- Genre:
- Essays
- Tracts (Ephemera)
- Essay.
- Pamphlets.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified], Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, 2015.
- Summary:
- "Marshall McLuhan's appearance within architecture's vanguard institutions in the mid-1960s might be seen, in retrospect, as a mere inevitability; he did seem to be everywhere after the 1964 publication of Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. But his participation at venues like Constantinos A. Doxiadis's Delos cruises or the Graham Foundation, and his publication in Perspecta 11, for instance, mark a very particular juncture in the disciplinary development of architecture in the postwar period. For some historians, his arrival at this moment was a sign of the beginning of the end for a particular modernist conception of architecture and its subsequent colonization by the logic of communications, networks, systems, and signs."-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
- CC BY-NC-ND.
- Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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