Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism

Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism

Edited with text by Carson Chan. Text by Matthew Wagstaffe.

How architects and designers helped define America's ecological movement in the 1960s-featuring Ant Farm, Buckminster Fuller, John C. Lilly and many more

During the 1960s, as Western notions of endless progress and growth gave way to concerns over industrial pollution, resource depletion and ecological limits, attitudes toward the environment became social, political and ideological. Published to accompany the first expansive survey of the history of environmental thinking in architecture, Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism looks at the role architects have played in defining our understanding of "nature" and the "environment," specifically during the rise of environmental discourse. The richly illustrated publication presents over 45 architectural contributions-from Eleanor Raymond and Mária Telkes' groundbreaking work on solar houses to Buckminster Fuller's...

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