Space Architecture - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0471864382 ISBN 13 : 9780471864387

Editeur : Wiley-Academy, 2000

Synopsis

This volume of "Architectural Design" has been devised to open architects' eyes to the possibility of designing for outer space. The tourist industry view travelling to near space as a realistic objective, and companies such as Hilton Internatioinal have already produced schemes for space hotels. However, architects have been slow in responding to the challenges and opportunities that space offers. "Space Architecture" is both pragmatic and artistically inspiring, exploring the economics of space and the practicalities of space flight, as well as art by David Bowie, who created the influential space icon, Major Tom. The work of artists Damien Hurst and Davide de Angelis is also featured, and other important contributors included Arthur C. Clarke and Patrick Moore. Contributions from those who have already experienced working in outer space include the astronaut Buzz Aldrin and space architect John S. Spacer.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This Architectural Design title poses a unique challenge to architects. It incites designers to respond to the limitless potential that outer space presents at the beginning of the third millennium. No longer man′s final frontier restricted to the activities of government space agencies, the extraterrestial environment is soon to be opened up by private enterprises and individuals. Featured work, by those such as WAT&G, Shimizu Systems and the X–Prize contenders, prove that entrepreneurial companies are already producing independent pioneering designs for the first tourists. Contributing specialists from a wide range of disciplines endorse these developments: the engineer David Ashford describes the viability of developing commercial passenger planes for space tourism within decades and the economist Patrick Collins analyses the commercial rewards to be reaped from outer space. The social, legal and scientific effects of creating what could ultimately be an unlimited ecological zone beyond Earth are explored further. Just how far reaching the effects will be for the practice of architecture is suggested both by John Zukowsky′s comprehensive overview of space architecture and Ted Krueger, who organised an architectural workshop with NASA. This is not, however, to overlook space′s artistic impact on architectural design in the latter 20th century. Space Architecture also recognises the seductive power that high–technology space imagery has had for contemporary architects and their debt to film and TV, as well as cult figures such as David Bowie.

Revue de presse

"Congratulations for producing another issue that explores the topics others find too hard."
–– World Architecture, October 2000

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Academy
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0471864382
• ISBN 13: 9780471864387
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Éditeur: Armstrong Rachel
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible