Jesco von Puttkamer, "Developing Space Occupancy: Perspectives on NASA Future Space Program Planning," in Space Manufacturing Facilities (Space Colonies), Proceedings of the Princeton/AIAA/NASA Conference, May 7-9, 1975, ed. Jerry Grey (New York: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., 1977): 209.
“Abstract,” in Space Manufacturing Facilities, v.
As O’Neill explained of this orbit, the “L5 Lagrange libration point, 60° behind the Moon in the orbit of the Moon around the Earth… An object located at L5 would stay there forever.” Gerard K. O’Neill, "The Colonization of Space," in Space Manufacturing Facilities, A-5.
Gerard K. O’Neill, "The Space Manufacturing Facility Concept," in Space Manufacturing Facilities, 8.
There are actually two similar drawings reproduced alongside von Puttkamer’s presentation. I will focus on the second, in which Leonardo’s drawing is not simply retraced but mechanically reproduced.
Ibid., von Puttkamer, 209.
Ibid., von Puttkamer, 217.
On ergonomics, see John Harwood, "Skylab, or the Outpost," AA Files 61 (2010): 93-99; and Harwood, "The Interface: Ergonomics and the Aesthetics of Survival," in Governing by Design: Architecture, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century, ed. Aggregate Architectural Collective (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012): 70–92.
Georges Canguilhem, "The Living and Its Milieu," trans. John Savage, Grey Room 03 (Spring 2001): 23.
Ibid., Canguilhem, 19, 26.
Ibid., Canguilhem, 24–25.
Superhumanity, a project by e-flux Architecture at the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, is produced in cooperation with the Istanbul Design Biennial, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, and the Ernst Schering Foundation.