Cold War on the home front: the soft power of midcentury design

11 March 2010

Associate Professor Greg Castillo
Associate Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley

by Associate Professor Greg Castillo

An illustrated history of the persuasive impact of model homes, appliances, and furniture in cold war propaganda.

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Associate Professor Greg Castillo
Associate Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
Greg Castillo received a B.F.A. in photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1975, an M.A. at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California in 1978, an M.Arch at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1995, and a Ph.D. in architectural history at the University...

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11 March 2010

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