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200 10$aUtopias and architecture /$fNathaniel Coleman
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aAbingdon [England] ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d2005
215   $a1 online resource (795 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 319-326) and index.
327   $aIntroduction : 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.
330   $aUtopian 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
606   $aVisionary architecture
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615  0$aVisionary architecture.
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