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UNINA9910955509803321 |
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Autore |
Coleman Nathaniel <1961-> |
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Titolo |
Utopias and architecture / / Nathaniel Coleman |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Abingdon [England] ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-99395-5 |
1-281-15862-3 |
9786611158620 |
0-203-53687-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (795 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Visionary architecture |
Utopias |
Architecture - Philosophy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-326) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Utopian thought, though commonly characterized as projecting a future without a past, depends on golden models for re-invention of what is. Through a detailed and innovative re-assessment of the work of three architects who sought to represent a utopian content in their work, and a consideration of the thoughts of a range of leading writers, Coleman offers the reader a unique perspective of idealism in architectural design. With unparalleled depth and focus of vision on the work of Le Corbusier, Louis I Kahn and Aldo van Eyck, this book persuasively challenges predominant as |
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