Word: foams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this freedom, color, and imminent economy extends to whole buildings of plastic. At the show one can walk through several free-form hive-like buildings made by spraying polyurethane foam over a fabric frame. In one of these structures there's a slide show demonstrating the process of mush hardening into a building. And there are pictures of a house made from the hive modules by Yale School of Art and Architecture Professor Felix Drury and his students...
...foam building belongs in the suburbs of Xanadu. Being in it is like being swallowed by Moby Dick, perhaps. There is no distinction between ceiling and walls, the texture is amorphous whiteness and there are no easy-to-understand geometric forms...
Baird tested the law in April, 1967, by giving Emko foam to an unmarried woman before an audience of 1800 at Boston University. Six months later, he was found guilty of exhibiting contraceptives and of giving them to an unmarried woman...
Baird was arrested after distributing contraceptive foam to an unmarried woman at a public meeting at B.U. in April, 1967. He was found guilty by the Suffolk Superior Court of exhibiting a birth control device and of distributing a device to an unmarried woman...
...where building codes, union labor and obstructive bureaucrats are scarce, imaginative architects and builders have lately achieved some triumphs. To replace the reeking hovels inhabited by California migrant farm workers, Berkeley Architects Sanford Hirshen and Sim Van der Ryn designed $1,200 shelters of paper and plastic foam that fold up like accordions. So far, 20 communities of these and similar quarters have been built with a combination of funds provided by localities, the Rosenberg Foundation and the Economic Opportunity Act. Kingsberry Homes, a division of Idaho-based Boise Cascade Corp., sells $4,750 prefab packages to Alabama and Louisiana...