Spaced out : radical environments of the psychedelic sixties / Alastair Gordon.

By:

Gordon, Alastair [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0847831051
9780847831050

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

728.097309046 22

LOC classification:

NA7208 .G67 2008

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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"Crash pads, hippie communes, infinity machines, and other"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-295) and index.

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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