Title & Author:

The Universitas Project : solutions for a post-technological society / conceived and directed by Emilio Ambasz ; [edited by Harriet Schoenholz Bee ; designed by Gina Rossi ; illustrations executed by Gina Rossi].

Publication:

Description:

512 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:
"This publication presents the papers and proceedings of The Universitas Project, a research project culminating in a two-day symposium held at The Museum of Modern Art on January 8-9, 1972"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Acknowledgments ; Introduction: looking back to see ahead / Emilio Ambasz -- ESSAYS -- Design and environment: or, the inflationary curve of political economy / Jean Baudrillard -- Urban symbolism and social movements: on a new institution for the study of the urban environment / Manuel Castells -- Proairetic factor and the concept of asymmetry in design / Gillo Dorfles -- New values / Ronald Dworkin -- Critical essay / Umberto Eco -- Remarks concerning the New York Universitas Project / Hans Magnus Enzensberger -- Education for design: preliminary notes on a systems approach to total human experience and purposeful activity / Erich Jantsch -- Notes for discussion on future communities / Suzanne Keller -- Art and ecological consciousness / Gyorgy Kepes -- What is multidisciplinary man? / Arnold Kramish -- Communication / Henri Lefebvre -- Education of an urban administrator / 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? / Richard L Meier -- Notes on the demilitarization of the university / Martin Pawley -- Return (Vuelta) / Octavio Paz -- Comments on the proposed university of design / Anatol Rapoport -- Notes on the Universitas Project Working Paper / Jivan Tabibian -- University between theory and ideology / Alaine Touraine -- On making things safe for designers / Rexford Guy Tugwell -- Whose Utopia? / Sheldon S. Wolin -- SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS -- First working session, Saturday, January 8, 1972 / Stuart Hampshire -- Second working session, Saturday, January 8, 1972 / Thomas A. Sebeok -- Third working session, Sunday, January 9, 1972 / Arthur Drexler -- Fourth working session, Sunday, January 9, 1972 / Carl Schorske -- POSTSCRIPTS -- Brief thoughts about the symposium / Jean Baudrillard -- After the symposium: Tower of Babel, screen, or establishment of a real-life situation? / Manuel Castells -- Post-crypt to the symposium / Gillo Dorfles -- Postscript / Stuart Hampshire -- Symposium afterthoughts / Erich Jantsch -- Postscript / Suzanne Keller -- Report on the discussions of January 8-9, 1972, at the Museum of Modern Art / Henri Lefebvre -- Postlogue / Richard L. Meier -- Universitas symposium in retrospect / Anatol Rapoport -- Creative and critical univeristy / Alain Touraine -- Afterthoughts concerning the education of designers / Rexford Guy Tugwell -- Univercity: a fable / Emilio Ambasz.

ISBN:

0870700707 (paperback)
9780870700705 (paperback)

Subject:

Universitas Project.
City planning Congresses.
Design Congresses.
Environmental engineering Congresses.
Architecture and society Congresses.
Architecture Study and teaching Congresses.
Urbanisme Congrès.
Design Congrès.
Technique de l'environnement Congrès.
Architecture et société Congrès.
Architecture Étude et enseignement Congrès.
Architecture Study and teaching
Architecture and society
City planning
Design
Environmental engineering

Form/genre:

Proceedings.
Essays.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Ambasz, Emilio.
Bee, Harriet Schoenholz.
Rossi, Gina.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266764
Call No.: BIB 198760
Status: Available