Hippie modernism examines the art architecture and design of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s the catalog surveys the radical experiments that challenged societal norms while proposing new kinds of technological ecological and political utopia it includes the counter design proposals of victor papanek and the anti design polemics of global tools the radical architectural visions of archigram superstudio haus rucker co and onyx the installations of ken isaacs joan . These distinct pleasures converge in the walker art centers exhibition catalogue hippie modernism the struggle for utopia which sports the sun bleached binding and yellowed pages of a book that has weathered a library shelf since the 1960s its scholarly essays and interviews typeset in period fonts and illustrated with black and white graphics are interspersed with full page color . Hippie modernism the struggle for utopia is organized by the walker art center in association with the university of california berkeley art museum and pacific film archive bampfa the exhibition was curated by andrew blauvelt director of cranbrook art museum the bampfa presentation is organized by director and chief curator lawrence rinder and guest curator greg castillo associate professor of architecture at the university of california berkeley. Centers exhibition catalogue hippie modernism the struggle for utopia which sports the sun bleached binding and yellowed pages of a book that has weathered a library shelf since the 1960s its scholarly essays and interviews typeset in period fonts and illustrated with black and white graphics are interspersed with full page color layouts