Review: From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design by Peder Anker

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Book Review| March 01 2011 Review: From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design by Peder Anker Peder Anker. From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010, 177 pp., 8 b/w illus. $34.95, ISBN 9780807135518 Kim Tanzer Kim Tanzer University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2011) 70 (1): 111–129. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2011.70.1.111 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kim Tanzer; Review: From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design by Peder Anker. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2011; 70 (1): 111–129. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2011.70.1.111 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search On the second page of From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design, Peder Anker shares the life-altering experience that eventually caused him to write this important yet flawed account of ecological design in the twentieth century. As a Norwegian youngster, he traveled for a family vacation to the Epcot Center at Disney World, and he left Florida certain that that prototypical community of the future did not belong to his future. "This book is an attempt to come to terms with this ecological line of reasoning, and it proceeds according to my own trajectory from Europe to the United States," he writes (2). Anker's early admission alerts the reader that much of the book might be inflected by this distressing childhood experience, and such a suspicion is frequently reinforced. Despite this agenda-driven inquiry, From Bauhaus to Ecohouse reveals a rich range of connections between unlikely twentieth-century architects, designers,... You do not currently have access to this content.