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Spaced out : radical environments of the psychedelic sixties / Alastair Gordon.
LIBRA NA7208 .G667 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gordon, Alastair.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dwellings--United States--History--20th century.
- Dwellings.
- Architecture, Domestic--United States--History--20th century.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Hippies--United States.
- Hippies.
- Communal living.
- History.
- United States.
- Communal living--United States--History--20th century.
- Nineteen sixties.
- United States--Social life and customs--1945-1970.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 302 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Rizzoli, [2008]
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Crash pads, hippie communes, infinity machines, and other"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-295) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780847831050
- 0847831051
- OCLC:
- 166387917
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