Archinect - News2024-11-23T08:04:49-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/139995727/hippie-modernism-how-bay-area-design-radicals-tried-to-save-the-planet
Hippie Modernism: How Bay Area design radicals tried to save the planet Orhan Ayyüce2015-10-29T11:05:00-04:00>2022-03-16T09:10:02-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/fh/fhdkttnjtanqsdbz.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Hippie modernism focused not on rigorous form but rather on a kind of socially inspired bricolage. Hippie modernism has been not only misunderstood but also underestimated. Buckminster Fuller’s concept of a ‘design science revolution’ inspired the hippie bricoleurs to shoulder their generation’s emerging notion of environmental stewardship.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Greg Castillo pens a great article about one of the most overlooked and often dismissed role of hippies in what we have today greedily claimed by the millenials and known as "environmental movement."</p><p>“Hippie Modernism” is published in coordination with the Walker Art Center exhibition,<a href="http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2015/hippie-modernism-struggle-utopia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia</a>,</p>