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PublisherColumbia University, Graduate School of Architecture

ISBN-101941332498

ISBN-139781941332498

eBay Product ID (ePID)8038407103

Product Key Features

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameSpace Settlements

Publication Year2019

SubjectHistory / Contemporary (1945-), General, Criticism

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArchitecture

AuthorFred Scharmen

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight21.8 Oz

Item Length0.8 in

Item Width0.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2019-013229

ReviewsWe need utopian visions for the future of life on and beyond this planet. Scharmen's Space Settlements is an essential text in that project--opening up the possibility of developing radical, speculative visions for the future and pursuing them, not through the whims of benevolent billionaires, but through democratic means that enable us to learn from mistakes, not simply to reproduce them beyond the thermosphere.

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal629.442

SynopsisIn the summer of 1975, NASA brought together a team of physicists, engineers, and space scientists--along with architects, urban planners, and artists--to design large-scale space habitats for millions of people. Space Settlements examines these plans for life in space as serious architectural and spatial proposals.proposals., In the summer of 1975, NASA brought together a team of physicists, engineers, and space scientists--along with architects, urban planners, and artists--to design large-scale space habitats for millions of people. This Summer Study was led by Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill, whose work on this topic had previously been funded by countercultural icon Stewart Brand's Point Foundation. Two painters, the artist and architect Rick Guidice and the planetary science illustrator Don Davis, created renderings for the project that would be widely circulated over the next years and decades and even included in testimony before a Congressional subcommittee. A product of its time, this work is nevertheless relevant to contemporary modes of thinking about architecture. Space Settlements examines these plans for life in space as serious architectural and spatial proposals., In the summer of 1975, NASA brought together a team of physicists, engineers, and space scientists--along with architects, urban planners, and artists--to design large-scale space habitats for millions of people. Space Settlements examines these plans for life in space as serious architectural and spatial proposals.

LC Classification NumberTL795.7.S33 2019