Showing posts with label prediction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prediction. Show all posts

Wednesday, 1 August 2018

Architecture 2000

I read the entire thing earlier this year and I can't remember a single bloody prediction.  It's much more about the trends of the time (Jencks' foreword is dated June 1969) and the theories / histories behind them.  So illustration-wise it's all Archigram, Metabolism, Yona Friedman, Frei Otto etc, and nowt much in the way of outlandish fancies / what ifs.

What's really interesting & fun is Jencks' six major traditions, and how he plays with them:

Note that Communism and Fascism do *not* share a group :)

And this is cool, courtesy the Rand Corporation:


Which of the Six Major Traditions do *you* fit into, dear reader?

Oh yeah, here's a flavour of the text:


Note: "we might well ask why the practice of futurism currently meets with such scepticism and hostility".

Wednesday, 28 June 2017

Colonizing the Moon, 1972.










Lead article in the Britannica Yearbook of Science and the Future, 1972.  Artwork by Bill Chambers.