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About the book >.>.> Taken together the works represent a unique and fertile period in architecture and the world at large especially during the radical political and social upheavals of the late 1960s. They provide a rare cross section of that era’s rapidly changing currents when a young generation of architects involved in what came to be called the megastructure movement sought to make a better world by ridding it of the exhausted modernist aesthetic of the prewar years. In its search for new paradigms and a fresh dynamic appropriate to post- war life and culture this diverse group ultimately became the move- ment’s most pointed critics. However the brilliant visions they had along the way remain in their drawings. The megastructuralists’ objective emphasis on technology flexi- bility and comprehensive size gave way to an individualistic archi- tecture of poetry memory and psychology expressed in smaller monuments ruins and postmodernist dreams of the future incorpo- rating icons of the past. The Gilman collection’s center of gravity is precisely at the moment of this transition and includes key exam- ples of the megastructure and early postmodernism and also work by major figures who straddle both camps. (MP)