Cold war hothouses : inventing postwar culture, from cockpit to playboy
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Cold war hothouses : inventing postwar culture, from cockpit to playboy
Princeton Architectural Press, c2004
- pbk. : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references
Contents of Works
- Cold war/hot houses
- Cockpit
- Forecast
- Plastics
- Playroom
- Toy
- Mission 66
- Beat space
- Pornotopia
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Generation Y takes a critical look at the Baby Boomers in this veritable encyclopedia of Cold War invention. Cold War Hot Houses strips away the nostalgic haze surrounding the 1950s and 1960s to critically reappraise the importance of everything from the model home, the drive-in movie, the interstate highway, the suburban lawn, the bomb shelter, the TV, and the king size bed. It takes the seemingly quirky features of the postwar life style and shows how they are intimately connected to the economic, political and psychological forces of the period. Written by smart young group of scholars, groomed in their methods and introduced to us by a proven innovator in architectural thinking. Great visuals will amuse and delight the reader
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