Bartlett International Lecture Series: Nicholas de Monchaux
Informations pratiques :
- 18:30 – 20:00 01 March 2013.
- Emplacement Cruciform Lecture Theatre (B304), Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT.
- Plus d’informations
Extrait :
Fashioning Apollo
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore 21-layer fabric-and-latex spacesuits crafted by seamstresses taken from the assembly-line of Playtex, maker of bras and girdles. Nicholas de Monchaux’s recent Book, Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo tells the story of the twenty-one-layer spacesuit in twenty-one chapters addressing twenty-one topics relevant to the suit, the body, and the technology of the twentieth century…
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