The 1960’s and 70’s in the US was full of socio-political activism, anti-war protests, Martin Luther King, Apollo 11 landing and the first gay liberation day to name a few. This surge for change was heard by the designers of the time who responded with radical ideas such as: eco domes to reduce pollution, walking cities, inflatable extensions that act as relaxing spaces and the infamous geodesic-dome, polularised by Buckminster Fuller.
https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/radical-architecture/index.html.”The events that were happening on a local, national and regional scale arguably affected the way in which architects and designers started to approach not only for whom they were designing, but why (they were designing),”
Sean Anderson, associate curator for the department of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
A 70's Scrapbook 