The architecture of closed worlds, or, what is the power of shit? /
What do outer space capsules, submarines, and office buildings have in common? Each is conceived as a closed system: a self-sustaining physical environment demarcated from its surroundings by a boundary that does not allow for the transfer of matter or energy. Contemporary discussions about global w...
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Zürich, Switzerland :
Lars Müller Publishers, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
- 37 living prototypes : Timeline of closed worlds
- 1928 Cunningham Sanitarium
- 1931 FNRS Balloon
- 1943 Aqualung
- 1956 Thermoheliodon
- 1956 House of the Future
- 1960 Climatron
- 1960 NASA Langley Simulator
- 1962 Geoscope
- 1962 Conshelf (1962-65)
- 1964 Clivus Multrum
- 1966 Biological Waste System
- 1966 EPCOT
- 1967 Man+
- 1969 Grumman Integrated Household
- 1969 SEEK
- 1970 Clean Air Pod
- 1972 Autonomous dome
- 1972 Bios-3
- 1972 Ecological house
- 1972 Gobar Gas Plant
- 1973 Earth Workshop
- 1974 Suntek Bioshelter
- 1974 Integral urban house
- 1976 Sundwellings
- 1976 The Ark of Cape Cod
- 1979 The Liberated House
- 1981 West Edmonton Mall
- 1982 Rocky Mountain Institute
- 1986 Biospheric Test Module
- 1991 BIOSPHERE 2
- 1993 The Autonomous House
- 1994 MSU EPICenter
- 1995 MeLiSSA Pilot Plant
- 2000 Eden Project
- 2003 AMPS
- 2007 Mars500
- 2008 Masdar CIty
- A minor history of man, environmental awareness, books, and design speculations of closed worlds : Figures of man ; Institutionalizing environmental awareness ; Publications ; Speculative design projects
- Encounters that never happened : Mark Wigley X Buckminster Fuller ; Bess Krietemeyer X Erik Nitsche of General Dynamics
- Michelle Addington X NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Closed worlds, bubbles, and voluntary containment.
