The Responsive Environment - 9781517907105

The Responsive EnvironmentDesign, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s\nAuthor(s): Larry D. Busbea\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9781517907105, 978-1517907105\nSynopsis\nHow new conceptions of humanenvironment interaction became central to design theories and practices in the 1970s\n\n At the end of the 1960s, new models of responsiveness between humans and their environments had a profound impact on theories and practices in architecture, design, art, technology, media, and the sciences. The resulting initiatives-design philosophies, art installations, architectural projects, exhibitions, publications, and symposia-sought to bring together insights from biology, systems theory, psychology, and anthropology with modernist legacies of total design.\n\nIn The Responsive Environment, Larry D. Busbea takes up this concept of environment as an object and method of design at the height of its .