From 1960-1980, both eastern and western Europe experienced a construction boom of new dimensions. Cybernetics, the science of planning, and sociology, as well as the new possibilities offered by technology and production, paved the way to large-scale processes and systems in architecture and urban design, which favored technocratic and utopian concepts. Increasingly, architects and planners saw themselves as designers of comprehensive infrastructure and mega-structures in a technology-focused world. The authors assesses these developments on the back of a knowledge transfer between East and West. It confirms a change in attitude that can still be felt today - recession, social changes, and environmental problems led to criticism of the then contemporary concepts of modernity.

About the Author
Akos Moravanszky, ETH Zurich Karl R. Kegler, University of Applied Sciences Munich


Book Information
ISBN 9783035610161
Author Akos Moravanszky
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Birkhauser
Publisher Birkhauser
Weight(grams) 787g