Cold war Hot house. Intro

This was a very interesting reading. Despite the fact that we only red the introduction i found that it did a very good job of conveying alot of information in a short period of time.

I was suprised to learn how much of an effect the cold war between Russia and the US had influenced the coarse of design in the period.

The thing that i found most interesting i think is that fact that Russia and America fort over whos citizens had the better life style and that the strength of the nation was based on the Technology in the kitchen rather then the size of their bombs.

The reading also illistrtated how nervous the public were. this can be illistrated in some of the designs to come out of this era. In the way that the were almosted designed with nomadic intensions, people could up and move at the drop of a hat.

The Car and House also became safe havens basiclly miniture bomb shelters to protects its owners should the worst come to worse.

The extravigant objects where created to lull people into a false sense of security. to occupie them to save them thinking about the dangers Knocking at the door.

I then came to the conclusion that we even today we use objects to distract us from the truth. We don't think about the wars going on in other parts of the world or the millions starving in Africa instead we think about which Ipod we want to get next.