The Ideal of Total Environmental Control: Knud Lönberg-Holm, Buckminster Fuller, and the SSA

Finalist for the Thought and Criticism category of the FAD Awards 2019 This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Lönberg- Holm, a forgotten Danish architect who promoted a unique systemic, cybernetic, and ecological vision of architecture in the 1930s. A pioneering figure of the new objectivity and international constructivism in Germany in 1922 and a celebrated peer of radical figures in De Stijl, the Bauhaus, and Russi…