exit to tomorrow: World's Fair Architecture, Design, Fashion 1933-2005

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Andrew Garn

Format: Book
Pages: 224
Publisher: Universe Publishing
Date Published: Oct 2007
Stock Code: 60760
Binding: Hardback

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Focusing on the golden era of world's fairs, from the 1930s to the 1970s, this book offers a nostalgic glimpse of the future in vintage photographs, postcards, previously unpublished memorabilia, and drawings of pavilions, created by such designers and architects as Buckminster Fuller, Norman Bel Geddes, Kisho Kurokawa, and Le Corbusier. Innovative, informative, and entertaining, this souvenir of yesterday's tomorrow is a superb tour of the achievements of avant-garde architecture and design.

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Reviewed by Samuel Carpenter, Book Buyer, RIBA Bookshops

If the past is a foreign country, nostalgia for the future is a trans-continental express train opening up strange vistas in an endearingly old-fashioned way. As we speed towards a craven new world of tactical nuclear strikes, rubbish-heap cities and climatic catastrophe, it is instructive, comforting yet sobering to recall more innocent and optimistic visions of things yet to come, such as those promulgated in World Fairs down the ages. Buckminster Fuller's Biosphere, Sky Rides, a gigantic bubble-shaped elevator, unbelievably sleek automobiles - between the 1930s and the 1970s these exhibitions unfurled a shining view of what progress would do for us as we journeyed towards a techno-Utopia. It was never going to happen, but this excellent book shows us how life might have been if it had.

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