
Attribution
Alastair GordonPublication Details
BookRizzoli2008Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) NA7208 .G67 2008 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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- "Crash pads, hippie communes, infinity machines, and other"–Cover
- The utopian sixties inspired revolutionary and alternative ways to live, love, and entertain–and equally radical spaces to do it in. Stimulated by the psychedelic drug culture, rebel designers and architects distorted space to create womblike coves and isolation chambers, forging a spatial vocabulary that still reverberates today. At the same time, the tune-in-turn-on-drop-out message lured youths into far-flung communes, often under the roofs of brightly painted geodesic domes draped and tie-dyed fabric. Idealistic and anarchic enclaves with names like Drop City and Morning Star redefined the concept of community, inventing a wildly spontaneous way of building and dwelling
Contents
- Part I. Soft landings : Enchanted loom
- Infinity machines
- Crash pads
- Soft city
- Part II. Outlaw nation : Unsettlers
- Magic circles
- Frontier mystics - - Epilogue : The fall of drop
ISBN
- 9780847831050
- 0847831051
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