"Martin Beck's exhibition "Panel 2: Nothing better than a touch of ecology and catastrophe to unite the social classes--" draws on the events of the 1970 International Design Conference in Aspen (IDCA) and the development of the spen Movie Map to form a visual environment that reflects the interrelations between art, architectuer, design, ecology, and social movements. ... The Aspen Complex documents two versions of Beck's exhibition--at London's Gasworks and Columbia University's Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery--and brings together yet unpublished archival material and new research on the 1970n IDCA and the Aspen Movie Map."--Book jacket. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Dataland (and its ghosts): Aspen proving grounds / Felicity D. Scott. Between structure and praxis: the heteronomy of "Panel 2" / Sabeth Buchmann -- Environment by design: International Design Conference in Aspen, June 14-19, 1970 -- "A guaranteed communications failure": consensus meets conflict at the International Design Conference in Aspan, 1970 / Alice Twemlow -- The Aspen Movie Map, 1977-1980 / Architecture Machine Group at MIT -- Dataland (and its ghosts): Aspen proving grounds / Felicity D. Scott.
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