The Universitas Project: Solutions for a Post-technological Society

by Ambasz, Emilio

• ISBN13: 9780870700705
• ISBN10: 0870700707
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-15
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

The Universitas Project~ISBN 0-87070-070-7 U.S. $ / Paperback, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 440 pgs / ~Item / September / Architecture

Table of Contents

Foreword	8	(2)
Glenn D. Lowry
Acknowledgments	10	(2)
Emilio Ambasz
Introduction: Looking Back to See Ahead	12	(4)
Emilio Ambasz
PROJECT WORKING PAPER	16	(34)
Emilio Ambasz
ESSAYS
Design and Environment: Or, The Inflationary Curve of Political Economy	50	(16)
Jean Baudrillard
Urban Symbolism and Social Movements: On a New Institution for the Study of the Urban Environment	66	(13)
Manuel Castells
The Proairetic Factor and the Concept of Asymmetry in Design	79	(9)
Gillo Dorfles
New Values	88	(7)
Ronald Dworkin
Critical Essay	95	(10)
Umberto Eco
Remarks Concerning the New York Universitas Project	105	(6)
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Education for Design: Preliminary Notes on a Systems Approach to Total Human Experience and Purposeful Activity	111	(31)
Erich Jantsch
Notes for Discussion on Future Communities	142	(8)
Suzanne Keller
Art and Ecological Consciousness	150	(10)
Gyorgy Kepes
What Is Multidisciplinary Man?	160	(5)
Arnold Kramish
Communication	165	(9)
Henri Lefebvre
The Education of an Urban Administrator	174	(9)
Edward J. Logue
What Is the Most Challenging Role for the Capital of the World in the Continuous Happening that Makes Up the Future of Design?	183	(17)
Richard L. Meier
Notes on the Demilitarization of the University	200	(13)
Martin Pawley
Return (Vuelta)	213	(5)
Octavio Paz
Comments on the Proposed University of Design	218	(39)
Anatol Rapoport
Notes on the Universitas Project Working Paper	257	(7)
Divan Tabibian
The University Between Theory and Ideology	264	(12)
Alain Touraine
On Making Things Safe for Designers	276	(15)
Rexford Guy Tugwell
Whose Utopia?	291	(6)
Sheldon S. Wolin
SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS	297	(155)
First Working Session, Saturday, January 8, 1972	298	(42)
Stuart Hampshire, Chairman
Second Working Session, Saturday, January 8, 1972	340	(31)
Thomas A. Sebeok. Chairman
Third Working Session, Sunday, January 9, 1972	371	(38)
Arthur Drexler, Chairman
Fourth Working Session, Sunday, January 9, 1972	409	(43)
Carl Schorske, Chairman
POSTSCRIPTS	452	(29)
Brief Thoughts About the Symposium	453	(2)
Jean Baudrillard
After the Symposium: Tower of Babel, Screen, or Establishment of a Real-Life Situation?	455	(2)
Manuel CasteIls
Post-Crypt to the Symposium	457	(2)
Gillo Dorfles
Postscript	459	(2)
Stuart Hampshire
Symposium Afterthoughts	461	(2)
Erich Jantsch
Postscript	463	(1)
Suzanne Keller
Report on the Discussions of January 8-9, 1972, at The Museum of Modern Art	464	(5)
Henri Lefebvre
Postlogue	469	(3)
Richard L. Meier
The Universitas Symposium in Retrospect	472	(3)
Anatol Rapoport
The Creative and Critical University	475	(4)
Alain Touraine
Afterthoughts Concerning the Education of Designers	479	(2)
Rexford Guy Tugwell
Biographies of the Participants	481	(27)
The University: A Fable Emilio Ambasz	505	(3)
Index	508	(4)
Trustees	512