blow me: inflatable art, architecture and design

Michael Webb

of

Archigram Group

with his

full-size model of the 

"Cushicle"

1967

(David Green inside)

Looks comfy!

I wish I knew what his glasses were all about....

Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton,

 Ron Herron

"Control and Choice Dwellings"

1967

Frank Lloyd Wright

"Rubber Fiberthin Airhouse"

(for the U.S. Rubber Company)

1956

Jean-Paul Jungmann, Jean Aubert, Antoine Stinco

"Architecture Pneumatiques"

Paris

1967

Jean-Paul Jungmann, Jean Aubert, Antoine Stinco

"Architecture Pneumatiques"

Paris

1967

Jean-Paul Jungmann, Jean Aubert, Antoine Stinco

"Architecture Pneumatiques"

Paris

1967

Frei Otto

Inflatable Pavilion

Rotterdam Expo

1958

Nicolas Grimshaw and Partners

"Eden Project"

Cornwall, England

2001

Haus-Rucker-Co.

"Gelbes Herz"

1968

Haus-Rucker-Co.

(again)

"Gelbes Herz"

(Yellow Heart)

1968

Haus-Rucker-Co.

"Oasis 7"

Presentation at documenta 5

Kassel, Germany

1972

"Structures Gonflables"

Musée de la Ville de Paris

1968

LOOK GREG!

There's a "Silver Cloud"!

Otto Piene

"A Field of Hot Air Sculptures Over a Fire in the Snow"

MIT

1969

Totally rad.

Hans Haacke

"Sky Line"

Central Park

NYC

1967

Maurice Agis

"Dreamspace"

This would later

KILL!

(I think it was the pissed off ghost of Verner Panton....)

Visiona II (Verner Panton)

1970

Bernard Quentin

N.Y. World's Fair

1964

William H. Miller

"Chair"

1944

"Barbarella"

Rodger Vadim director

(That's Jane Fonda being imprisoned by,

it seems like, 

Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne?)

See what I mean???

Walter Bird

"Radome"

Ithaca, NY

1948

Nice segue right?

"Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex"

Woody Allen

1972

"Mr Blowup"

GET INTO IT!

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