'Wandering through the show, I found myself wondering whether it's possible to reconnect with the psychedelic moment... or if we even want to'

摘要

When I first read the exhibition title "Hippie Modernism," I made some bad assumptions. I imagined the show would be a long overdue look at the built work of architects like David Sellers, aia, who fled Yale University in the mid-1960s, bought some land in central Vermont, and started building whacked-out ski chalets without benefit of plans or drawings. I imagined it would involve the oeuvre of Steve Badanes, assoc. aia, John Ringel, and Jim Adamson, who spurned their formal Princeton educations and formed a nomadic collective called Jersey Devil, which during the 1970s crafted eccentric houses around the country with descriptive names like Snail, Hoagie, and Airplane. I read the title and thought, It's about time that these counterculture heroes got a museum show.