Utopias and architecture

Utopias and architecture / Nathaniel Coleman.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coleman, Nathaniel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Subjects:
Visionary architecture.
Utopias.
Architecture > Philosophy.
visionary architecture.
utopian literature.
utopias.
architectural theory.
ARCHITECTURE > Urban & Land Use Planning.
Architecture > Philosophy
Utopias
Visionary architecture
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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