https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z Made with mirth en-us 2018-05-10 12:46:34 UTC 2018-05-31 13:35:06 UTC hello@padlet.com nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/259596811 1. How did the differences in architecture between the US and the USSR reflect their contrasting political ideas?]]> 2018-05-10 13:08:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/259596811 nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/259600609 The differences in American and Soviet architecture during the Cold War reflected the ideological battle between communism and capitalism happening in world politics. ]]> 2018-05-10 13:17:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/259600609 nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/259943218 2018-05-11 13:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/259943218 nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/260233079 2018-05-13 14:52:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/260233079 nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/260233197 2018-05-13 14:53:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/260233197 nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/260448045 2018-05-14 13:10:46 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/260448045 nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/260452738 2018-05-14 13:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/260452738 nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/260457242 2018-05-14 13:29:56 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/260457242 nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/260460194 2018-05-14 13:35:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/260460194 nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/260615069 2018-05-14 19:10:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/260615069 nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/261070696 - more concrete reflected an anxiety about surviving nuclear war
- public shelters were not completely buried; private ones were
- designs included techniques to protect people from fallout
- The City National Bank Building was the first privately owned public shelter
- ^combined bunker style with 1950s modernism
- bunkers were used as both protection strategies and aesthetique
- bunker style was basically the gross concrete masses that people often complain about today]]> 2018-05-16 02:45:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/261070696 nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/261074394 2018-05-16 03:08:51 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/261074394 nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/261595545 - new ways of thinking
- Western design groups similar to rock bands
- technology integrated into pop culture
- marked by irony because of the active war
- inflatable buildings (inspiration)
- "How, they asked, can we exploit new technology for the benefit of humanity without producing inhuman effects?"
- life seemed more finite because of the threat of nuclear warfare]]> 2018-05-17 14:11:50 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/261595545 nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/261896569 Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era by Elaine Tyler May]]> 2018-05-18 12:44:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/261896569 nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/261903715 - invented during the cold war
- designer entered design competition in 1943 (designs for a post WW2 era)
- mall design was too radical for the competition
- "America was seeking shelter and a controlled environment."
- design was inspired by government + defense buildings
- Southdale Mall was built so large to protect the citizens of the twin cities (Minneapolis and Saint Paul)
- almost everything in the design was in case of a nuclear attack
- it was even supposed to serve as a full town in case of nuclear war
- designed so that people would even forget they were inside
- "Rouse's Cold War utopia."]]> 2018-05-18 13:06:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/261903715 nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/261913775 - "Atlas-F Intercontinental Ballistic Missile silo"
- built in 1958
- being converted into an unconventional home
- looks like a normal mountain retreat from the long driveway
- basement area has blast doors
- launch control center
- "cold war architecture has become kitsch"
- by the time most technology was done being built it was obsolete
- it was where bombs much bigger than Hiroshima were being built
- hard to sell these strangely shaped spaces
- flip side of the non-private glass building trend
- some people buy these silos and build end-of-the-world shelters

]]> 2018-05-18 13:32:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/261913775 nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/262335460 - switch from basement playrooms to bunkers
- "The evidence is overwhelming that the Soviets intend to use nuclear blackmail as a major weapon to promote their objectives - namely to spread Communism throughout the world."
- $150 do-it-yourself bunker
- bunker style --> linear style of glass office buildings
- way more swimming pools built than bunkers
- President Kennedy tried to make people more aware of the danger
- NEAR: National Emergency Alarm Repeater
- swimming pool companies became bunker builders
- The Atom Bomb House
- Melvin Mininson made bunkers stylish and sexy
- more and more elaborate decorations
- family style!
- "modern day cave dwellers"
- do you defend your bomb shelter or let neighbors in? (ethics)
- kind of similar to gun control?
- neighbors and friends pitted against each other
- "my best salesmen are Khrushchev and Kennedy"
- craze was winding down by 1963]]> 2018-05-21 12:37:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/262335460 nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/262340701 - America tried to spread American ideals abroad
- East Germans went to USSR and West Germans went to US
- Germany was divided in style between communism and capitalism
- no opportunities in East Berlin for architects unaffiliated with the government
- American program failed because the architects who returned lacked professional status because they were gone for so long
- American trainees upended the one-way education by thinking about the lessons and making their own conclusions
- "German democracy modeled on American precedent"
- programs were focused directly on architecture
- West German reprogramming was literally organized by a communist
- I'm surprised the Germans wanted to go to America/USSR
- first moment of wonder on American soil
- they touristed around NYC
- 50s America: mix of revivalism and modernism
- taught about politics before architecture
- more urban planning than aesthetics
- ^Germans hadn't learned about that much before
- learned about how to plan residential districts, sidewalks, etc
- new concept for them: community involved in planning
- ^^ this concept breaks communist ideals of government controlling everything
- "This American system is the most wasteful in terms of energy... It is the most humane, however."
- city planning=process of public administration
- learned about effect of Weimar on American architecture
- watched production line during house construction in Levittown
- they thought it was impressive but sad
- more power for the working class than in Germany
- learned about racism in America
- students got tired of visiting housing projects
- Germans sometimes challenged the new teachings
- less boundaries between authority and students
- students started copying American fashion and social cues
- on return the students didn't really change anything because older people were in charge of everything
- the students were generally more aware of the rest of the world than other German citizens
- only 1 out of the 11 became a city planner in Germany]]> 2018-05-21 12:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/262340701 nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/262668850 2018-05-22 12:58:17 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/262668850 nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/262674064 - modern day "ostalgia" for propaganda Eastern items
- "Cold War was as much about how to live as it was about how to kill"
- East Berlin was designed to maximize private companies' subordination to the state
- cold war=arms race
- arms race w/ architecture: "architecture, in some ways, always represents conditions of conflict in space"
- Operation Gold: tunnel in Berlin
- Alfred Hitchcock's "Torn Curtain" recreated the tension in Germany (first real world setting in a Hitchcock movie)
- Berlin city planning=propaganda
- Soviet War Memorial made up of Bolshevik and Nazi materials
-  ^was an intrusion into west berlin
- opportunity to reorganize society for both sides
- ceremonies memorialized the Russian Revolution
- people from the West who came to the East's May Day felt rejected
- rebuilt traditional building in stone (e)
-  soviet planning: square, parade route, tower
- protest at Stalinallee
- workers felt disconnected from their work
- west Berlin was not allowed banners or signs during gatherings
- Hans Scharoun built a steel structure in 1959
- skyscraper plans for West Berlin
- Hermann Henselmann submitted an alternative design for West Berlin but was rejected
- a skyscraper is planned for the very edge of West Berlin 
- Berlin Wall is constructed
- competition for the first TV tower
- Springer building had a gold reflective surface which showed East Berlin back to its citizens
- Oskar Kokoschka painted the view of East Berlin from the roof of the Springer building
- Leipziger Strasse is built to re-motivate East Berlin citizens
- protest at the Palace of the Republic in East Berlin
- asbestos found in the same building ^^]]> 2018-05-22 13:10:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/262674064 nbunn2020 https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/263344242 2018-05-24 13:31:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nbunn2020/j56en5weht7z/wish/263344242