NASA’s Enclosed Garden

Essay, expanding design practices, Jeffrey S Nesbit, Politics and economics, Technology and fabrication

Architecture’s challenge, Assembly, Building, Built landscape, Circulation, Connections, Design process, Earth, Essay, Extraterrestrial, History, Humanity, Infrastructure, Innovation, Machine, Modernity, Network, Politics, Science, Technology, Temporary settlements, the Moon, USA, Utopia

Architects have described spaceport facilities as empty industrial boxes in the American landscape.[2] These are not dull boxes but represent the federal government’s attempt to generate architectural modernity, as space programs relied heavily on strategies for enclosing scientific activities, coordinating logistics, and simulating extraterrestrial environments.