The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s Contributor(s): Busbea, Larry D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1517907101 ISBN-13: 9781517907105 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Design | History & Criticism - Architecture | History - Contemporary (1945 -) - Art | History - Contemporary (1945- ) |
Dewey: 111.85 |
LCCN: 2019017203 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.9" W x 9.9" (1.80 lbs) 344 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: How new conceptions of human-environment interaction became central to design theories and practices in the 1970s 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, Gy rgy 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. |