May 16, 2010
When Design Lost Its Innocence; New Cars for New Cities
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Premier Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union and Vice President Richard Nixon debated the merits of capitalism near a model of an American kitchen at the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959.
Architecture and design have never been politically or culturally neutral—and not only in terms of form and function. But much remains to be told about the history of their loss of innocence, Greg Castillo argues in a new book, Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design (University of Minnesota Press).
For a case study, the associate professor of architecture at the University of California at Berkeley chooses a surprising passage in
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