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Al Gowan brings to light a missing chapter in American design history. The people and events he includes were crucial to charting new directions for design in the United States and worldwide, brought together by the perect storm of Harold Cohen and Buckminister Fuller in Carboindate in the 1950’s. Here is the story by someone who was there, told in the words of those who changed the world with bent soda straws, smashed tomatoes and structures that encompassed the stars. “Al Gowan’s Shared Vision is a valuable addition to the record of the inﬂuence of the Bauhaus in post-war America. His interviews with participants bring it alive.” - Robert Campbell, architect and Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic for the Boston Globe SHARED VISION: The Second American Bauhaus Al Gowan Non-Fiction 240 pages Paperback, perfect bound, white paper, color insert, French ﬂaps gloss cover, b & w, 8 x 8 $25.00 Language: English ARC005080 ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-) ISBN-978-1937504250 Now Available Al Gowan was in Harold Cohen’s ﬁrst class as he began the design program at Southern Illinois University in 1955 and in 1959, the day Buckminster Fuller walked into the lights. A practicing graphic designer and writer, he taughtatIndianaUniversity, Purdue University, Boston University, and is a professor emeritus of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His articles on design have appeared in PRINT and ID, and he is the author of two books on design topics: Nuts & Bolts: A Public Design Casebook and T.J. Lyons, A Biography and Critical Essay. He has also written articles and ﬁction that have appeared in Yankee and Ploughshares, as well as two novels, Santiago Rag and Zamora’s Tattoo, and a collection of short stories, Fort Momma. www.algowan.com 5-1010 16

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