The Inflatable Moment
The Inflatable Moment
Pneumatics and Protest in '68
ed. by Marc Dessauce

Editor(s)
Marc Dessauce
Uitgever
New York : Princeton Architectural Press ; The Architectural League of New York, 1999
Omvang
147 p., geïllustreerd, 23 cm.
ISBN
1568981767

To a group of architecture students at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the turbulent year 1968, the idea of the inflatable held a promise of mobility, movement, energy, and escape. Seeking to overturn the inertia and oppression that they believed characterized mainstream architecture, the Utopie group (as they called themselves) designed a series of pneumatic buildings, furniture, and environments, all heavily influenced by American military structures and comic books as well as by the work of Buckminster Fuller, Henri Lefebvre, Jean Baudrillard, and London's Archigram. The Inflatable Moment documents this fascinating intersection of architectural, social, and political history, as it presents a complete, annotated catalog of the designs of the Utopie architects alongside similar structures from the period.


Persoon als onderwerp
Buckminster Fuller, Henri Lefebvre, Jean Baudrillard, Archigra, …[et al.]
Trefwoorden
critical aesthetics , architecture , design , mobile architecture , utopia , counter culture , sixties
Locatie in de bibliotheek
Kast 15 - 6: Architectuur en Kunst
Extra thema's
Architecture and Art
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