Word: hotrod
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waste of time and effort, Price says. Their true secret, he feels, lies in their iridescent dragonfly-wing colors. These are achieved by spraying on 20 thin coats of high quality lacquer, which, he proudly points out, is the same method used on the West Coast for first-rate hotrod jobs...
...outsider know what is going on inside, he designed the Goddard Library as a chassis with each functioning space unit attached, much as a hotrod engine proclaims its parts by exposing its chrome-plated carburetors and exhausts. Black metal snorkels funnel air in and out; angled concrete slabs shutter the windows from the sun; chimney-like staircases take the flow of students into the open bookstacks. "Architecture is not a commodity for those who can afford it," Johansen maintains. "It is a vehicle by which an architect explains his society. There must be a new architecture for our experience...