ABSTRACT

This chapter examines Lönberg-Holm and C. Theodore Larson´s forays into information architecture. Their collaboration on the book, Development Index, 1953 arose out of Lönberg-Holm´s role in the reformulation of CIAM during the postwar. As an inscriptional system that suggested survey methodologies for harvesting information about local conditions it was offered for worldwide missions in reconstruction and development though the United Nations. Fuller appreciated it as a pre-computer, cybernetic system modeled on H.G. Well´s provocative proposal for a World Brain. This collaboration considers building as a form of environmental control through the prism of the community.