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Email required Address never made public. Name required. Blog at WordPress. Follow Following. Joe, I'm right with you. I love the "retro-futurism" aesthetic envisioned in numerous films of the lates and 70s such as the ones you mentioned. Too a lesser degree "Rollerball" and "THX I'm sure there's dozens of others.
I'll have to research the topic further someday and put together a list. It looks like a book worth getting. My all-time favourite retro-futurist look is the chicks with the purple wigs in UFO. Another 70s movie worth checking out for retro-futurists is The Final Programme. It's totally awesome. Very cool!
Gordon wittily deconstructs air terminal architecture… Here is a book with more than enough quirky details to last a long layover. Organized by the architecture historian and author Alastair Gordon, the show and book attempt to place Mr.
Jaffe who drowned while swimming off Bridgehampton in in the context of international Modernism, while stressing his departures from Modernist orthodoxy. He lived in Springs, East Hampton for more than forty years. One prong was esthetic, leading to the development of an innovative style of architecture that would eventually spread throughout the world.
The other was social, determining how and where newly prosperous urban professionals spent their leisure time. As General Editor of the Princeton Paper on Architecture, Alastair Gordon oversaw the editing, design, production and distribution of a series of critical texts on modern architecture. Alastair Gordon, an architecture critic and historian, organized the exhibition, which contains a mix of models, original photographs, plans and drawings.
Unlike most architecture exhibitions organized around local themes, this one has genuine national significance. Gordon has been relentless in his research, and has unearthed numerous designs that are unfamiliar even to those who know Long Island and the history of architecture at mid-century well… To Alastair Gordon, these early modern buildings are striking remnants of an age of earnestness, an age of belief in the ability of architecture to reshape the world.
In the excellent catalogue that accompanies the exhibition, he traces the natural, if unorthodox, marriage between the utopian world envisioned by the modernist architects and the relaxed world of the beach house. MacKay, et al, available at Amazon. This important volume is a rich compendium of the architects and firms who designed these grand examples of domestic architecture during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
It will be published online at a free-access website by the Library at Macalester College. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account.
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