Utopias and architectue
By: Nathaniel Coleman.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Visionary architecture.; Utopias.; Architecture -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: utopias & architectures?; title: Conceptualizing utopias; title: Architecture & orientation; title: Situating utopians; title: Real fictions; title: Varieties of architectural utopias; title: Post war possibilities; title: Optimistic architectures; title: Le Corbusier's monastic ideal; title: The life within; title: Fairy tales & golden dust; title: Kahn & Salk's challenge to dualistic thinking; title: Aldo van Eyck's utopian discipline; title: Story of another idea; title: The unthinkability of utopia; title: Into the present.