Xanadu

by Robert Evans, Roy Mason, Robert Evans

Xanadu: The Computerized Home of Tomorrow and How It Can Be Yours Today! From the back of the book: Xanadu, the home of tomorrow is here -- right outside Orlando, Florida. And this book is not only an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874917018
• ISBN13: 9780874917017
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Acropolis Books (NY)
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Home of the Future Review

I remember as a kid being fascinated by the Xamadu home of the future in Orlando. I had a chance to take a bunch of pictures right before they tore it down in 2006. It's a real shame that brilliant contributions to architecture and design are destroyed by narrow visioned property owners. The same thing happened to Frank Lloyd Wright and several of his buildings were torn down (then rebuilt). Xanadu the book captures the golden era of this attraction. And even though the attraction itself was limited by the budget available to it at the time - the inpiration and execution was genius. You can still see the sign on Hwy. 192. Obviously the owners didn't want to use the property for additional development but only to destroy the building itself instead of preserviing it and turning it into something else. Cheers.

Xanadu: What are Gods For Exactly?

I've lived in Orlando for three years now and have been out to Xanadu several times. I finally picked this book up and was really pleased by the vision of Xanadu it portrays: Women in space-age skirts, Will Robinson looking men taking time out to relax in front of a psychedelic light show, in the privacy of their own homes no less. It saddens me greatly to se Xanadu rotting out there on Highway 192.

What we once tough future can be... a nice dream!

This fine book is an invitation to dream about a New World, a peace time, with concerns only to better living standards, healthy leisure, a home for a higher level of humankind. It is now only a dream, since this amazing project was abandoned and is empty now, like all those dreams of a better, safer, nicier World. We awakened in mid of today's World nightmares, and we must exchange the electronic glass doors of Xanadu for iron-gates, and change our mood to live in fear of the future once again. Sour time ours... when I watch the "Teletubbies" I remember how nice Xanadu was, because I'm sure the Teletubbies' house was inspired by this genial ideal, the plastic-bubbles-house called XANADU!