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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Nature of Enclosure

Nature of Enclosure

Nesbit, Jeffrey S.

Paperback

General ArchitectureGeneral DesignNature Writing

Publisher Price: $34.95

ISBN10: 1638409730
ISBN13: 9781638409731
Publisher: Actar
Published: Sep 6 2022
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.60 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Nature of Enclosure interrogates the role of architecture and urbanization in a post-pandemic society, to discuss topics from closed forms of capital to the exclusive boundaries of environment and politics.


From Crystal Palace in 1851 to Buckminster Fuller's Spaceship Earth in 1969, nature became enclosed. Claimed to be a reaction of Norbert Wiener's cybernetics, Fuller's geodesic domes became symbols of American counterculture. Yet, from Fuller's description of Spaceship Earth sea masters, the dome seems to prioritize an environment of occupation inside the dome, over those residing outside--a world of civilized control on its interior and wilderness, war, and wasteland on the other side. Overlapped by cultural consumption and politics, planetary imagination stimulates a useful framework for interrogating the human impact on environmental limitations over a technological foreground. The blurry lines between the engineered logic and cultural imagination are continually embedded and influenced by intuition in the cultural practices of capital enclosure. Theories, design practices, and the forms of imagination, including science fiction, open up critical questions on the status of our environment here on Earth.

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