Coleman, Nathaniel

Utopias and Architecture : Nathaniel, Coleman - 333 páginas: Ilustraciones; gráficos; 22 cm

Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas: 319-326) e índice

Conceptualizing utopias - Architecture and orientation - Situating utopias - Real fictions - Varieties of architectural utopias - Postwar possibilities - Optimistic architectures - Le Corbusier monastic ideal - The life within - Fairy tales and golden dust - Kahn and Salks challenge to dualistic thinking Aldo van Eycks utopia discipline - Story of another idea - The unthinkability of utopia - Into the present

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.



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Utopias
Arquitectura visionaria
Psicología de la arquitectura

720.1 / C692ut 2005