Cold War Modern: Design 1945-70
"The way films created a fantasy visual vocabulary for the cold war struggle will be shown by designs by Kenneth Adams from such films as The Ipcress File, Goldfinger and Dr Strangelove. This is the world, said Pavitt, of "the underground bunker, the situation room ... there is a bunker mentality that runs through this show". Le Corbusier's designs for a below-ground cathedral will be shown, as will Buckminster Fuller's notion of a dome to cover Manhattan. "The idea was of a controlled environment for Manhattan," said Pavitt, "a utopia in the shadow of a nuclear threat."" [ Cold War Modern: Design 1945-70 is at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from September 25.] (Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian)
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