Pneumatic Architecture

Increasing anxiety over the effects modern technology was having on the environment led to all sorts of futuristic concepts such as this installation named 'Oasis No.7'. Haus-Rucker-Co., was the only Austrian group to raise environmental concerns in the early 1970s. The bubble protected the occupants as well as nature. 1972, Archive Gunter Zamp-Kelp, Berlin

The Cold War's Influence on Art: 1945-1970:

A major new exhibition at London's V&A Museum illustrates how the Cold War influenced world culture and design on both sides of the Iron Curtain.