Out of Time Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future

Flying cities, Martian colonies, spaceships, robots, monorails, bubble-topped cars, atomic explosions. . . . These have all appeared in both artistic renderings of the future for pulp magazines & as serious architectural proposals. In the 20th century, high & low, fact & fiction mixed in ways that are now impossible to separate. Design references for the future were drawn from engineering, science fiction, avant-garde architecture, pulp fiction & mechanix magazines, aerodynamics, & the 1939 New York World's Fair. And many of these ideas have actually come to pass. This wonderful book is a collection of illustration art from the past century, portraying the indefatigable gee whiz of the imagined future.Brosterman, Norman is the author of 'Out of Time Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future' with ISBN 9780756765668 and ISBN 0756765668.