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Capsules : typology of other architecture
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Uniform Title
Kapsula. English
Title
Capsules : typology of other architecture / Peter Šenk.
ISBN
1315272172 (electronic bk.)
9781315272177 (electronic bk.)
1138280348
1138280356
9781138280342
9781138280359
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 195 pages.)
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Summary
This book investigates the architectural, product design, and urban typology of the capsule which, beginning in the 1960s, broadened the concept of the basic building blocks of architecture to include a minimal living unit, called the "capsule." Here it is presented with regard to the continuity of the development of the Modern Movement, its revisionist criticism, pioneering examples, as well as contemporary examples and uses. The typology of the capsule allows us to consider this theme in terms of the architecture of resistance, with the potential to search for an "other" architecture that is embedded in our contemporaneity (manifested in small dwellings, composite structures, and container units; shelters and mobile homes in nature and the urban environment; technology transfer in high-tech designs; devices, additions, and extensions, etc.). The concept of the capsule as a building element of architecture, as well as a spatial element, can therefore be regarded as having a generative potential for an architecture of personal space for the individual, forcing us to reflect on our existing living and dwelling conditions. Book jacket.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Frame(work)
Development: pioneers and contemporaries : Subsistence minimum (existenzminimum), CIAM, and the new generation ; From Buckminster Fuller to counterculture 1960 ; British techno-utopia and experiments for the immediate future ; Japanese metabolism and the philosophy of change
Catalog: typology and its manifestations : Autonomous cells ; Connective cells
Medium: typology and image : Envelope: protection and representation (exterior) ; Envelope: comfort equipment and feedback simulation (interior) ; Prefabrication integrity (structure, function, representation) ; Temporaries (time and space) ; Mobility (movement)
Coda : In pursuit of other architecture.
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