Vía Marcianos.com.mx “Hogar, dulce hogar“, en nuestro mundo una casa es una triste realidad al alcance de pocos, este elemento tan importante y constituyente de la civilización actual no siempre fue parte de la humanidad, muy probablemente los primeros prototipos de casas hayan venido de la mano de la agricultura, cuando nuestros antepasados abandonaron la […]
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Anyone can throw on bell bottoms and a flower crown, but the real devotees to the hippie scene back in the '60s and '70s had much stronger roots in the cause. They built and lived out of treehouse-like structures, transforming vegetation, bric-a-brac, and remnants of condemned buildings into a type of organic architecture—with a few helpful hints from DIY hippie building guides, of course. Their creations may not have weathered the decades since, but they're now on view in "Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia," an exhibition chronicling the Bay Area's role in the counterculture movement of the '60s and '70s, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) from February 8 to May 21. Peer inside their surprisingly upscale assemblages, here.
Photography by Jan Kempenaers, 2010.
Cob houses are very dear to me. Having a degree in architecture does not mean that all of us fancy reflecting facades, huge steel structures and skyscrapers braking the height record of one another…
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