Category Archives: Eames
Mixing Politics with (dis)Pleasure: Patrick Geddes, Architecture, Evolution and the New Right
The American right’s current infatuation with the writings of Ayn Rand raises, once again, the Medusa’s head of Malthusian “social Darwinism.” Rand’s writings themselves are an odd conflation of Emersonian self-determination and social-Darwinist “principles” (if they can be considered such), … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, biology, Eames, ecology, Evolution, industrial design, modernism, organicism, Patrick Geddes, Urbanism
Tagged architecture, Ayn Rand, Bauhaus, biology, design, Eames, Evolution, Geddes, Politics, Rand, Sociology, Urbanism
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Domes, Films and Toys: The Role of Education in the Works of Bucky Fuller and Charles and Ray Eames
In Architecture or Techno-utopia: Politics After Modernism, Felicity Scott maps the migration of military technologies into the popular imagination, focusing specifically on how these technologies became potent tools for the counterculture of the 1960s. Not surprisingly, her lens is focused … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, Eames, education, Geodesics, modernism, technology, Toy, Video
Tagged Buckminster Fuller, Eames, Geodesics, Toy, Video
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