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French-American interrelationships in the areas of design and
creative thinking have been under-acknowledged. It is normally
asserted that French architects looked to North America for
technical lessons in the development of modern architecture in the
1960s but that the French cultural environment was generally
hostile to American ideas. This book includes interviews with
French architects who visited the United States in the 1960s-1970s
and then assumed influential positions in the press and education
in France. Some of these architects found in non-mainstream America
and its radical groups of architectural drop-outs a liberating
force, free of the taint of American capitalism and the
high-investment technology. Often living in alternative student
communities, they saw highly innovative, low-cost technical and
structural systems placed in the service of collective forms of
living which represented a critique not only of professional
architectural practice but also of bourgeois forms of living. Many
of them also studied in American schools of architecture and came
in contact with an intellectual and interdisciplinary style of
architectural education unavailable in France at that time.
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Whole Earth Field Guide (Paperback)
Caroline Maniaque Benton; Contributions by Meredith Gaglio, R.Buckminster Fuller, Howard Odum, Hanns Reich, …
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A source book for American culture in the 1960s and 1970s:
"suggested reading" from the Last Whole Earth Catalog, from Thoreau
to James Baldwin. The Whole Earth Catalog was a cultural touchstone
of the 1960s and 1970s. The iconic cover image of the Earth viewed
from space made it one of the most recognizable books on bookstore
shelves. Between 1968 and 1971, almost two million copies of its
various editions were sold, and not just to commune-dwellers and
hippies. Millions of mainstream readers turned to the Whole Earth
Catalog for practical advice and intellectual stimulation, finding
everything from a review of Buckminster Fuller to recommendations
for juicers. This book offers selections from eighty texts from the
nearly 1,000 items of "suggested reading" in the Last Whole Earth
Catalog. After an introduction that provides background information
on the catalog and its founder, Stewart Brand (interesting fact:
Brand got his organizational skills from a stint in the Army), the
book presents the texts arranged in nine sections that echo the
sections of the Whole Earth Catalog itself. Enlightening
juxtapositions abound. For example, "Understanding Whole Systems"
maps the holistic terrain with writings by authors from Aldo
Leopold to Herbert Simon; "Land Use" features selections from
Thoreau's Walden and a report from the United Nations on new energy
sources; "Craft" offers excerpts from The Book of Tea and The
Illustrated Hassle-Free Make Your Own Clothes Book; "Community"
includes Margaret Mead and James Baldwin's odd-couple
collaboration, A Rap on Race. Together, these texts offer a
sourcebook for the Whole Earth culture of the 1960s and 1970s in
all its infinite variety.
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