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The architecture of closed worlds, or, What is the power of shit? / Lydia Kallipoliti.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Z�urich, Switzerland : Lars M�uller Publishers, [2018]Copyright date: �2018Description: 298 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9783037785805
  • 3037785802
Other title:
  • What is the power of shit?
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • NA 2542.35 .K35 2018
  • NA680
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Home library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection NA 2542.35 .K35 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 2025-05-02 5248029

"Storefront for Art and Architecture"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-298).

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.

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