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The structural, formal, and social eccentricity of the Drop City artists' commune in Colorado defied conventional definition as architecture, but rendered it a singular motif in accounts of experimental architecture, and made it a countercultural domicile without peer. Drop City's architectural innovations included a “bricolage” interpretation of Richard Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes, a geometric structural system known as the Zome, and passive solar devices. Before it became a spectacle of degeneration, Drop City was posited as a creative laboratory for cultural and environmental “praxis,” and it remains a case study of altered architectural parameters.
The structural, formal, and social eccentricity of the Drop City artists' commune in Colorado defied conventional definition as architecture, but rendered it a singular motif in accounts of experimental architecture, and made it a countercultural domicile without peer. Drop City's architectural innovations included a “bricolage” interpretation of Richard Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes, a geometric structural system known as the Zome, and passive solar devices. Before it became a spectacle of degeneration, Drop City was posited as a creative laboratory for cultural and environmental “praxis,” and it remains a case study of altered architectural parameters.
Drop City Revisited
Sadler, Simon (author)
Journal of Architectural Education ; 59 ; 5-14
2006-02-01
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
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