Argentinean designer and intellectual Toms̀ Maldonado taught environmental design at Polytechnic University of Milan. In this collection of essays, he advocates reform of the designed environment to tackle ecological problems. Drawing on ideas from sociology, philosophy, politics, and ecology, he considers design as a force to counter technocracy and alienation. He critiques the techno-utopianism of Buckminster Fuller and questions the architecture of capitalism promoted by Robert Venturi and Scott Brown. The book will be of interest to design scholars, especially leftist design scholars. It was first published in Italian as La Speranza Progettuale in 1970, by Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a., Turin, Italy. Annotation 2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
