Visionary architecture
Subtitle: blueprints of the modern imagination
By: Neil Spiller.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780500342268
Subjects: Architecture, Modern -- 20th century; Architecture, Modern -- 21st century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-269).
Table of contents: title: Arcadia, alchemy, antiquity and machines / Nat Chard; title: Absurd speeding objects and the revolutionary cabaret of science and dreams / Diller + Scofidio; title: The politics and cybernetics of freedom 1950s and 1960s / NOX/Lars Spuybroek; title: Iconography goes POP 1950s / Asymptote; title: The second poverty of heroic structures and Arcadian networks 1960s and 1970s / C.J. Lim; title: A gizmology of visionary housing a case study / Wes Jones; title: Transcripts for a new détournement 1970s, 1980s and 1990s / Milenko Ivanovic; title: Walking in a parkland of ecstasy, delirium and disjuncture 1980s / Morphosis; title: War and relativity in the age of memorial mechanics 1980s / Felix Robbins; title: The poetry of small things 1980s and 1990s / John Puttick; title: Soft machines and virtual objects 1990s and beyond / Neil Spiller.