This collection of beautiful, humorous, ridiculously serious blueprints and drawings is the outcome of a national competition for a "radiation-proof emergency operation center," - a nuclear bomb shelter for government officials. The book follows the exhibit "Give Them Shelter: It's Not for Everyone," and is made up of 80 photos of art work submitted by architects across the country. Because the competition did not require compliance with state and local building codes, the result is the free-flowing imaginative process of architects at their best and least restricted. The thought-provoking images on the paradox of nuclear blast and survival offer at once subtlety and wry humor.
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It's ART!!,
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This review is from: Quonset Huts on the River Styx: The Bomb Shelter Design Book (Paperback)
This is an interesting look at a nuclear cult art book; however, don't buy it as a guide to actually building a bomb shelter.
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