Spaced out: radical environments of the psychedelic sixties

Abstract

The utopian sixties inspired revolutionary and alternative ways to live, love, and entertain--and equally radical spaces to do it in. Stimulated by the psychedelic drug culture, rebel designers and architects distorted space to create womblike coves and isolation chambers, forging a spatial vocabulary that still reverberates today. At the same time, the tune-in-turn-on-drop-out message lured youths into far-flung communes, often under the roofs of brightly painted geodesic domes draped and tie-dyed fabric. Idealistic and anarchic enclaves with names like Drop City and Morning Star redefined the concept of community, inventing a wildly spontaneous way of building and dwelling.

Contents

Pt. I. Soft Landings -- Ch. 1. Enchanted Loom -- Ch. 2. Infinity Machines -- Ch. 3. Crash Pads -- Ch. 4. Soft City -- Pt. II. Outlaw Nation -- Ch. 5. Unsettlers -- Ch. 6. Magic Circles -- Ch. 7. Frontier Mystics -- Epilogue: The Fall of Drop.