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Notes on: Of Pop and Prostheses Vienna 1965-72

This article written by Jon Cummings in 2001 explores ideas about wearable, architecture and the interest in pneumatics and transient environments heightened by aeronautical exploration. Wearable architecture was transient and avoided land ownership policies. The vessel was a form of freedom. The senses can be amputated. “a mobile architecture allows a unique symbiotic relationship with nature.” Pneumatic devices allowed separation from a corrupt society. He describes the idea of escaping reality or an existential existence in the final sentence:  “It represents a searching for an otherness always just beyond the grasp of our present temporal existence and the rigidity that most often structures our built environments.”