Jeffrey S. Nesbit

Gebundenes Buch

Ground Control

A Design History of Technical Lands and NASA's Space Complex

Beschreibung

This book explores the infrastructural history of the United States rocket launch complex and offers a new way of understanding how technological uses of place-based science were designed and constructed in support of both industrial and military activities in postwar America.

Autor

Jeffrey S. Nesbit is an architect, urbanist, and founding director of the research group Grounding Design. Nesbit is currently Assistant Professor in History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism at Temple University, and previously taught at several institutions, including Harvard University, Northeastern University, University of North Carolina Charlotte, University of New Mexico, and Texas Tech University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 479g
• ISBN-13: 9781032770031
• ISBN-10: 1032770031
• Artikelnr.: 70150725

Rezensionen

"We all know the images of rockets lifting off from Cape Canaveral; we see as if the blockhouses and assembly buildings, the launch control facilities, gantries and massive concrete pads are as they must have always been. Jeffrey S. Nesbit's Ground Control helps us see space architecture otherwise: as a technical land borrowing from imaginative, industrial, and military sources, a complex shaped by architectural modernism but also by science fiction-here we see through Nesbit's book a monument to progress, a bastion of national power, and a symbolic dividing wall between earthly wetlands and outerspace wilderness. A fascinating exploration of the all-too modern spaceport."

Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University, USA