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Beschreibung

New Age by Design reveals the twenty-year masterplanning history of the University of California at Irvine, built on a Southern Californian ranch in the early 1960s. Dreamed of as an educational experiment by bureaucrats and designed by the modernist architect William Pereira, this carefully orchestrated vision blends the aspirations of cybernetic science, political ambition, and the promise of an ever-new frontier to conquer. At the dawn of the turbulent cultural era later dubbed the "Age of Aquarius," the campus was set to revolutionize the way students would live and learn. Conceived from the ground up, the planned landscape of the "University City" encapsulated a technocratic alternative to California's growing countercultural spirit.

  • Insight into the turbulent founding phase of UC Irvine
  • Archival material from the dawn of counterculture and computer age
  • Exploration of the colonial history and land politics

New Age by Design reveals the twenty-year masterplanning history of the University of California at Irvine, built on a Southern Californian ranch in the early 1960s. Dreamed of as an educational experiment by bureaucrats and designed by the modernist architect William Pereira, this carefully orchestrated vision blends the aspirations of cybernetic science, political ambition, and the promise of an ever-new frontier to conquer. At the dawn of the turbulent cultural era later dubbed the "Age of Aquarius," the campus was set to revolutionize the way students would live and learn. Conceived from the ground up, the planned landscape of the "University City" encapsulated a technocratic alternative to California's growing countercultural spirit.

  • Insight into the turbulent founding phase of UC Irvine
  • Archival material from the dawn of counterculture and computer age
  • Exploration of the colonial history and land politics
Zusammenfassung
Sina Brückner-Amin is Deputy Head of Archive at Deutsches Museum, Munich. Her research focuses on the history of knowledge systems and their architectures, bureaucracy and its media, as well as global colonial history. She works across various media as an author, curator, and science communicator.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Innenarchitektur & Design
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 208 S.
70 Illustr.
ISBN-13: 9783035631401
ISBN-10: 3035631409
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Paperback
Autor: Brückner-Amin, Sina
Hersteller: Birkhäuser
Birkhäuser Berlin
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Abbildungen: 70 ill.
Von/Mit: Sina Brückner-Amin
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.10.2026
Gewicht: 0,52 kg
Artikel-ID: 136902934