Utopias and architecture / Nathaniel Coleman.
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TextPublication details: Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 334 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- 9780203536872
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-326) and index.
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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A detailed and innovative re-assessment of the work of three architects (Le Corbusier, Louis I Kahn and Aldo van Eyck) who sought to represent a utopian content in their work.
English.
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