Utopias and architecture / Nathaniel Coleman.
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 334 p. :; ill. |
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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.