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The Inflatable Moment Marc Dessauce

The Inflatable Moment By Marc Dessauce

The Inflatable Moment by Marc Dessauce


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In 1968, students at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris had the idea for a series of pneumatic buildings, furniture, and environments, a society literally built on air. This book documents this intersection of architectural, social and political history with an annotated catalogue of their designs.

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

To a group of architecture students at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the turbulent year 1968, the idea of the inflatable held a promise of mobility, movement, energy and escape. With this in mind, 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, and Jean Baudrillard. This book documents this intersection of architectural, social, and political history, as it presents a complete annotated catalogue of the designs of the Utopie architects alongside similar structures from the period.

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CIN1568981767G
9781568981765
1568981767
The Inflatable Moment: Pneumatics and Protest in '68 by Marc Dessauce
Used - Good
Paperback
Princeton Architectural Press
19990901
148
N/A
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