Utopias and architecture
By: Nathaniel Coleman.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Abingdon [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780415700849; 9780415700856
Subjects: Visionary architecture.; Utopias.; Architecture -- Philosophy.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-326) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : utopias and architectures?; title: Conceptualizing utopias; title: Architecture and orientation; title: Situating utopias; 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 and golden dust; title: Kahn and 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.