Spaced out : radical environments of the psychedelic sixties /
Gordon, Alastair,
Spaced out : radical environments of the psychedelic sixties / Alastair Gordon. - 302 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm
"Crash pads, hippie communes, infinity machines, and other"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-295) and index.
Introduction -- Soft Landings -- Enchanted Loom -- Infinity Machines -- Crash Pads -- Soft City -- Outlaw Nation -- Unsettlers -- Magic Circles -- Frontier Mystics -- Epilogue: The Fall of Drop. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. Part II. 5. 6. 7.
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.
0847831051 9780847831050
2007926997
Dwellings--History--United States--20th century.
Architecture, Domestic--History--United States--20th century.
Hippies--United States
Communal living--History--United States--20th century.
Nineteen sixties
United States--Social life and customs--1945-1970
NA7208 / .G67 2008
728.097309046
Spaced out : radical environments of the psychedelic sixties / Alastair Gordon. - 302 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm
"Crash pads, hippie communes, infinity machines, and other"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-295) and index.
Introduction -- Soft Landings -- Enchanted Loom -- Infinity Machines -- Crash Pads -- Soft City -- Outlaw Nation -- Unsettlers -- Magic Circles -- Frontier Mystics -- Epilogue: The Fall of Drop. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. Part II. 5. 6. 7.
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.
0847831051 9780847831050
2007926997
Dwellings--History--United States--20th century.
Architecture, Domestic--History--United States--20th century.
Hippies--United States
Communal living--History--United States--20th century.
Nineteen sixties
United States--Social life and customs--1945-1970
NA7208 / .G67 2008
728.097309046