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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Typ dokumentu: | Kniha |
Jazyk: | Angličtina |
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London :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2005
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Vydání: | First published |
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On-line přístup: | Elektronická verze přístupná pouze pro studenty a pracovníky MU |
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