![]() Discovery, in this global, digital age, when few corners are mysterious, has become a rare commodity. But that’s one of the many reasons it’s so appealing. The Great American Mid-Century Modern Architecture Road Trip? Not famous. The book includes over 250 unique projects and serves as record of one of the USA’s most important architectural movements.įew experiences are as wedged into our psyches as the Great American Road Trip-a rite of passage chronicled by luminaries from Alexis de Tocqueville to Jack Kerouac. The following excerpt from Sam Lubell's Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide: East Coast USA-with excellent photos by Darren Bradley-provides an introduction to the revelatory and inspiring charm of the East Coast's Mid-Century Modern masterpieces. Greater Refuge Temple, Costas Machlouzarides, 1968, New York, New York, USA. As a generator of a glamorized lifestyle, the magazine highlighted architectural titans including Mies van der Rohe, Bucky Fuller, and Eero Saarinen, and made them palatable to a general audience. Perhaps best known for its significance as a vanguard in the sexual revolution with its promotion of masculinity, the magazine also illustrated a showcase of swanky glass bachelor pads standing high above Beverly Hills that pushed forward a debonair lifestyle punctuated by modern design. The relationship of sensuality and space doesn’t stop with the provocative desires of these three men, but lives on in one of the world’s most famous publications, Playboymagazine. The unbuilt proposal took on the form of a black and white striped solid which located a glass pool at the center of the space, forcing Baker to catch the male gaze of other occupants. In the same vein, while Adolf Loos stood firmly against architectural decoration, he perhaps supported the elegance of women acting as a human ornament, an assumed notion in his envisioned home for the French Entertainer, Josephine Baker. Plagued with unconfirmed tales of how he broke into her home to paint murals on the white walls, he was also known to publicly downplay the home's design, while conversely praising it in a series of unreciprocated love letters to Gray. Take for example Corbusier’s infatuation with Eileen Gray and her home, E. Donald Jaye Renderer: Humen Tan, Playboy, May 1962.Īrchitects throughout the modern era have displayed their fantasies through their designs and their obsessions with how women have inhabited them. The Playboy Town House Production Recommendations.
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