{"product_id":"the-responsive-environment-larry-d-busbea-9781517907105","title":"The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow new conceptions of human-environment interaction became central to design theories and practices in the 1970s\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Responsive Environment\u003c\/i\u003e, Larry D. Busbea takes up this concept of environment as an object and method of design at the height of its aesthetic, technical, and discursive elaboration. Exploring emerging paradigms of environmental perception, patterning, and control as developed by Gregory Bateson, Edward T. Hall, Wolf Hilbertz, Gy rgy Kepes, Marshall McLuhan, Nicholas Negroponte, Paolo Soleri, and others, he shows how living space itself was reimagined as a domain capable of modification through input from its newly sensitized inhabitants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Responsive Environment\u003c\/i\u003e intercuts the development of new ideas about environmental awareness with case studies of specific architecture and design projects for responsive environments. Throughout, Busbea connects these theories and practices to the contemporary obsession with \"smart\" things: responsive technologies, intelligent environments, biomimetic materials, and digital atmospherics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Larry D. Busbea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517907101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517907105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/21\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2020","brand":"Larry D. Busbea","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43940066525439,"sku":"9781517907105","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_82bcaac5-2652-4292-bd4c-7d9fc979412d.jpg?v=1681445091","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-responsive-environment-larry-d-busbea-9781517907105","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}