Spaced out : radical environments of the psychedelic sixties / Alastair Gordon.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Rizzoli, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 302 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0847831051
- 9780847831050
- 728.097309046 22
- NA7208 .G67 2008
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 728.097309046 GOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A428964B |
"Crash pads, hippie communes, infinity machines, and other"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-295) and index.
Introduction -- Part I. Soft Landings -- 1. Enchanted Loom -- 2. Infinity Machines -- 3. Crash Pads -- 4. Soft City -- Part II. Outlaw Nation -- 5. Unsettlers -- 6. Magic Circles -- 7. Frontier Mystics -- Epilogue: The Fall of Drop.
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.
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