| Title |
Utopias and architectue / Nathaniel Coleman. |
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| Imprint |
Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2005 |
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| Female Library
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NA209.5 C65 2005 |
Available |
| Description |
ix, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-326) and index . |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Visionary architecture
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Architecture -- Philosophy
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Utopias
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| ISBN |
041570085X (pb : alk. paper) |
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