![]() ![]() 3, 2016 70 civilization could not be rooted on Earth. A similar tendency can be found in the 1960s urban utopias the cities of the future are often disconnected from the ground, as if the new Gabriela Świtek | Montreal Architectural Review : Vol. ![]() The house of the future was to resemble the spacecraft cabin, as if the modernist "machine for living" paradigm had been replaced by the idea of a survival capsule for interplanetary flight. The hermetic spacesuit, which was to control and maintain fixed vital parameters of the body during space flight, has provided a solution for the modernist tendency to hermetically seal the spaces of architecture. ![]() Less known are similar concepts by the architects from the Central-Eastern Europe, such as the "spacesuit-isation" of public buildings presented by Polish architect Andrzej Frydecki at the Terra-1 International Exhibition of Intentional Architecture (Wrocław Museum of Architecture, 1975). When Ron Herron envisages the Walking City as a group of lunar rovers, with no foundations, freely roaming the surface, a GIAP member, Paul Maymont designs an air-conditioned city on the Moon. The astronautics' technologies and many 1960s designs of futuristic cities shared a false sense that in the near future man would be able to live anywhere on Earth (underwater, in the desert) as well as in outer space. The paper explores some aspects of astronautics' influence on late-modernist architecture and its existential consequences. ![]()
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