Lecture: Cold War Modern—Design 1945–1970

Event

• A Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970

  Art and design were not peripheral symptoms of politics during the Cold War: they played a central role in representing and sometimes challenging the dominant political and social ideas of the age.

Articles

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  Master Architects Lecture Series in San Diego to Honor Louis Kahn

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  Natalie Jeremijenko's MoMA Lecture

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• Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since the 1970s

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  War Craft Coffee Table

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  Star Wars Cookie Cutters

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