Utopias and architecture /

Utopian thought, though commonly characterized as projecting a future without a past, depends on golden models for re-invention of what is. Through a detailed and innovative re-assessment of the work of three architects who sought to represent a utopian content in their work, and a consideration of...

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Hlavní autor: Coleman, Nathaniel, 1961- (Autor)
Typ dokumentu: Kniha
Jazyk:Angličtina
Vydáno: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2005
Vydání:First published
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Příbuzné jednotky:Tištěná verze:: Utopias and architecture
Obsah:
  • Introduction : utopias and architectures?
  • Conceptualizing utopias
  • Architecture and orientation
  • Situating utopias
  • Real fictions
  • Varieties of architectural utopias
  • Post war possibilities
  • Optimistic architectures
  • Le Corbusier's monastic ideal
  • The life within
  • Fairy tales and golden dust
  • Kahn and Salk's challenge to dualistic thinking
  • Aldo van Eyck's utopian discipline
  • Story of another idea
  • The unthinkability of utopia
  • Into the present