Quasar Khanh, pioneer of inflatable furniture, with wife Emmanuelle and children in the pneumatic house he designed in 1968pic.twitter.com/3hoipP2AIN
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Jean-Paul Jungmann and the group Utopie (with J. Auberg & A. Stinco in collaboration with H. Tonka and J. Braudillard among others) evoked in 1968 "the rise of a symbolic, inflatable fraternity between disciplines, across political and social boundaries" https://books.google.at/books?id=pGzZYJd4BmwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Inflatable+Moment:+Pneumatics+and+Protest+in+%2768&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjL_6vPltjbAhVRPFAKHR8fA0AQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/hTIzzTCgCY
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The legendary Instant City, a temporary, self-built settlement made with inflatables and staple-guns, designed by José Miguel de Prada to overcome the lack of accommodation for participants of the VII Congress of ICSID in Ibiza (1971) https://www.domusweb.it/en/art/2012/10/15/utopia-is-possible.html …pic.twitter.com/9K0SBgychD
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German architect Frei Otto was profoundly attracted by the prevalence of pneumatic forms in nature and started already in the 1950s to experiment with soap bubbles. Here's one of his soapsuds experimentspic.twitter.com/fY9SQOaPXR
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A 1972 Playboy article praising the Polyvinyl Pneudome, or the inflatable bubble house, created by a Los Angeles design group named Chrysalis http://www.goretro.com/2016/02/retro-product-fail-12-inflatable-bubble.html …pic.twitter.com/Gv8ydlCfuv
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A photograph documenting 'Structures gonflables', an exhibition organized in 1968 by the group Utopie at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris on "the art, technology, and imaginary of inflatables" http://www.jeanpauljungmann.fr/expo_structures.htm …pic.twitter.com/joD6I4u0v8
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NASA's inflatable space habitats: the Erectable Torus Manned Space Laboratory, designed by a Langley space station team with the help of Goodyear Aircraft Corporation (1961) https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4308/ch9.htm and the inflatable lunar habitat proposal (1989) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflatable_space_habitat#/media/File:Inflatable_habitat_s89_20084.jpg …pic.twitter.com/1ZfQuCK6bO
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The inflatable, mobile concert hall 'Ark Nova' (2013–2017) by architect Arata Isozaki and artist Anish Kapoor http://anishkapoor.com/957/ark-nova pic.twitter.com/vaNTDd36J0
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reminds me of Michael Rakowitz's paraSITE project, homeless shelters that are inflated by warm air from vents http://www.spatialagency.net/database/why/political/michael.rakowitz …pic.twitter.com/W8wupvGg1C
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