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The Cold War was the war that never happened. Nonetheless, it spurred the most significant buildup of military contingency this country has ever known: from the bunkers of Greenbrier, West Virginia, to the "proving grounds" of Nevada, where entire cities were built only to be vaporized. The Cold War was waged on a territory that knew no boundaries but left few traces.(...)
Survival city : adventures among the ruins of atomic America
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The Cold War was the war that never happened. Nonetheless, it spurred the most significant buildup of military contingency this country has ever known: from the bunkers of Greenbrier, West Virginia, to the "proving grounds" of Nevada, where entire cities were built only to be vaporized. The Cold War was waged on a territory that knew no boundaries but left few traces. In this fascinating--and at turns frightening and comical--travelogue to the hidden battlefields of the Cold War, Tom Vanderbilt travels the Interstate (itself a product of the Cold War) to uncover the sites of Cold War architecture and reflect on their lasting heritage. In the process, Vanderbilt shows us what the Cold War landscape looked like, how architecture tried to adapt to the threat of mass destruction, how cities coped with the knowledge that they were nuclear targets, and finally what remains of the Cold War theater today, both its visible and invisible legacies. Ultimately, Vanderbilt gives us a deep look into our cultural soul, the dreams and fears that drove us for the last half of the 20th century.
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207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
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The whole earth : California and the disappearance of the outside / editors: Diedrich Diederichsen, Anselm Franke.
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Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2013], ©2013
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432 pages : Illustrations ; 17 cm
Milan : Mousse Publishing, 2023.
2086 : together how? / Abdelhadi Eman and others ; editor Han Dabin ; copy editors: Jinho Lim (Kor), Cassidi Sulaiman (Eng) ; translators: Jaehee Yi (Eng-Kor), Alice Kim (Kor-Eng), Tiziana Camerani (Eng-Ita).
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A selection of Melanie Friend’s images from the Berlin Wall in 1985, during the Cold War, contrast with the joyful celebrations at the Wall on New Year’s Eve 1989 (seven weeks after the fall of the Wall).
Melanie Friend: Berlin Wall 1985-1990
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A selection of Melanie Friend’s images from the Berlin Wall in 1985, during the Cold War, contrast with the joyful celebrations at the Wall on New Year’s Eve 1989 (seven weeks after the fall of the Wall).
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This otherworldly collection of Soviet space-race graphics takes readers on a cosmic adventure through Cold War-era Russia. Presenting more than 250 illustrations - depicting discoveries, scientific innovations, futuristic visions, and extraterrestrial encounters - 'Soviet Space Graphics' unlocks the door to the creative inner workings of the USSR.
Soviet space graphics: cosmic visions from the USSR
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This otherworldly collection of Soviet space-race graphics takes readers on a cosmic adventure through Cold War-era Russia. Presenting more than 250 illustrations - depicting discoveries, scientific innovations, futuristic visions, and extraterrestrial encounters - 'Soviet Space Graphics' unlocks the door to the creative inner workings of the USSR.
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Public photographic spaces, exhibitions of propaganda, from Pressa to the family of man, 1928-55
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This book focuses from a chronological perspective on photography as a tool for a new visuality and the rupture of the role of the spectator: photographic exhibitions from 1928 to 1955, from the spaces designed by Lissitzky's to The Family of Man; the trajectory of utopian architectural-photographic space and from post-Revolutionary Russia to America during the Cold War.(...)
Public photographic spaces, exhibitions of propaganda, from Pressa to the family of man, 1928-55
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This book focuses from a chronological perspective on photography as a tool for a new visuality and the rupture of the role of the spectator: photographic exhibitions from 1928 to 1955, from the spaces designed by Lissitzky's to The Family of Man; the trajectory of utopian architectural-photographic space and from post-Revolutionary Russia to America during the Cold War. This space documents the exhibitions designed by Lissitzky (Pressa, Film und Foto, etc); German, Italian and Spanish exhibitions in the 1930s, and exhibitions in MOMA during the Second World War.
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
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Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to Cold War test sites, "Curated decay" presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites in terms of ecology and entropy, explaining how we must adopt an ethical stance that allows us to collaborate(...)
Curated decay: heritage beyond saving
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Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to Cold War test sites, "Curated decay" presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites in terms of ecology and entropy, explaining how we must adopt an ethical stance that allows us to collaborate with—rather than defend against—natural processes.
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In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to the Cold War, governments across Western Europe set out ambitious programmes for social welfare and the redistribution of wealth that aimed to improve the everyday lives of their citizens. Many of these welfare state programmes - housing, schools, new towns, cultural and leisure centres – involved not just(...)
Urban Theory
September 2014
Architecture and the welfare state
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In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to the Cold War, governments across Western Europe set out ambitious programmes for social welfare and the redistribution of wealth that aimed to improve the everyday lives of their citizens. Many of these welfare state programmes - housing, schools, new towns, cultural and leisure centres – involved not just construction but a new approach to architectural design, in which the welfare objectives of these state-funded programmes were delineated and debated. The impact on architects and architectural design was profound and far-reaching, with welfare state projects moving centre-stage in architectural discourse not just in Europe but worldwide.
Urban Theory
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Wonderland manual is a cultural version of the NATO Cold War strategy of flexible response . Pursuing the military analogy, the manual is a continuation by other means of what Wonderland has been doing for the past years: accelerating the exchange of information among young architects in Europe.It is first and foremost a guide containing facts and figures, tips and(...)
Wonderland : manual for emerging architects
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Wonderland manual is a cultural version of the NATO Cold War strategy of flexible response . Pursuing the military analogy, the manual is a continuation by other means of what Wonderland has been doing for the past years: accelerating the exchange of information among young architects in Europe.It is first and foremost a guide containing facts and figures, tips and experiences and as such can be seen as a handbook for European architects at the start of their careers.
Architectural Theory
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The artists discussed in Space-Age Aesthetics looked beyond the limits of the picture, exploring space, mass media, pop culture, nuclear power, and science fiction to connect new art to the dramatic changes taking place through the encroaching Space Age. Space-Age Aesthetics begins by addressing the imagery of space exploration as a field of mythical representation(...)
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Space-age aesthetics: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and the Postwar European Avant-Garde
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The artists discussed in Space-Age Aesthetics looked beyond the limits of the picture, exploring space, mass media, pop culture, nuclear power, and science fiction to connect new art to the dramatic changes taking place through the encroaching Space Age. Space-Age Aesthetics begins by addressing the imagery of space exploration as a field of mythical representation informed by Cold War politics and acted out in an expansive variety of media, from the picture press to comic books.