by Fred Scharmen
- Author(s)
- Fred Scharmen
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University , 2019
- Scope
- 424 Pages, illustrated, 20 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781941332498
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. The 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 widely circulated over the next years and decades.A product of its time, nevertheless this work is relevant to contemporary modes of thinking about architecture. ' Space Settlements' examines plans for life in space as serious architectural and spatial proposals.
- Person as subject
- Rick Guidice, Don Davis, Étienne Louis Boullée, Le Corbusier, …[et al.]
- Keywords
- science fiction , design , urban planning , spatial planning , utopia , architecture theory
- Location
- Cabinet 15 - 3: Architectuur en Kunst
- Remarks
- Incl. Index
