From Bauhaus to Ecohouse A History of Ecological Design

Name: From Bauhaus to Ecohouse A History of Ecological Design
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ISBN: 9780807135518

ISBN-10: 0807135518

ISBN-13: 9780807135518

Edition: 2010

Authors: Peder Anker

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From Bauhaus to Eco-House explores key moments of inspiration and exchange between designers and ecologists, covering Bauhaus projects of the interwar period to the eco-arks of the late 1980s. The book discusses in detail how former faculty members of the Bauhaus school, such as Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, and Herbert Bayer engaged with ecologists during their "London period" and in the United States. The subsequent generation of students and admirers of the Bauhaus, such as Richard Buckminster Fuller and Ian McHarg, would pick up their program of trying to unite art and science. Fuller's turn to ecology came in 1932 when he proclaimed that architecture was the science of putting…

Book details

List price: $69.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Publication date: 12/1/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Bauhaus of Nature



Planning the Economy of Nature



The New American Bauhaus of Nature



The Graphic Environment of Herbert Bayer



Buckminster Fuller as Captain of Spaceship Earth



The Ecological Colonization of Space



Taking Ground Control of Spaceship Earth



The Closed World of Ecological Architecture


Conclusion: The Unification of Art and Science


Cast of Caracters


Notes


Index