The Ideal of Total Environmental Control

This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Lönberg-Holm, a forgotten Danish architect who promoted a unique systemic, cybernetic, and ecological vision of architecture in the 1930-s.

Suzanne Strum is an architect and scholar whose research focuses on the interrelation of technology and design. She teaches in international programs in Barcelona and was previously Co-Director of the Metropolis Master in Architecture and Urban Culture at the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain, as well as a lecturer at Elisava School of Design. She has a master's degree from Columbia University and a doctorate in the Theory and History of Architecture from the UPC, and is a recipient of the SAH/Mellon Author Awards in 2017.

Acknowledgements  Introduction  1. Knud Lönberg-Holm: A Productivist Architect in America  2. Monuments and Instruments: The SSA and the International Style  3. Industrial Emancipation and Technocracy in the 1930's  4. Sweets Catalog and Repro-Shelter  5. Information Architectures  6. The Archetype of the Invisible Architects of Invisible Architectures  Bibliography  Index