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The Collision of Scarcity and Expendability in Architectural Culture of the 1960s and 1970s
Architecture as a practice assimilates contradictions. Nowhere is this more apparent than in approaches to materials and sustainability. New finishes, details and products are continually specified and often fetishised, while architects are at pains to show their minimal impact on the environment. Steve Parnell highlights an era in the pages of Architectural Design in the late 1960s and early 1970s that congregated these incongruities by simultaneously advocating low‐energy solutions and expendability, most notably the inflatable.
The Collision of Scarcity and Expendability in Architectural Culture of the 1960s and 1970s
Architecture as a practice assimilates contradictions. Nowhere is this more apparent than in approaches to materials and sustainability. New finishes, details and products are continually specified and often fetishised, while architects are at pains to show their minimal impact on the environment. Steve Parnell highlights an era in the pages of Architectural Design in the late 1960s and early 1970s that congregated these incongruities by simultaneously advocating low‐energy solutions and expendability, most notably the inflatable.
The Collision of Scarcity and Expendability in Architectural Culture of the 1960s and 1970s
Parnell, Steve (author)
Architectural Design ; 82 ; 130-135
2012-07-01
6 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Design for a Real World , Expendability: Towards Throwaway Architecture , Utopie , Architectural Review , Archigram group , Alex Pike , ‘Trade rag’ , World Design Science Decade (WDSD) , Designing for Survival , Cedric Price , John McHale , Potteries Thinkbelt , Reyner Banham , ‘Plug‐in Cities’ , Victor Papanek , Andreas Papadakis. , Centre Beaubourg , Renzo Piano , Fun Palace , Whole Earth Catalog , Independent Group (IG) , Richard Rogers , Musée d'Art Moderne , ‘Cosmorama’ , ‘Living Pods’ , The Ecological Context , Archigram , Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion car , ‘Structures Gonflables’ , Robin Middleton, Peter Murray , Dave Chaston , Wichita house , Architectural Association (AA) , ‘supermarket of democracy’ , ‘Capsule Homes’ , Pop‐up Parliament
The Collision of Scarcity and Expendability in Architectural Culture of the 1960s and 1970s
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