Utopias and architecture [[electronic resource] /] / Nathaniel Coleman

• Autore: Coleman Nathaniel <1961->
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon [England] ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (795 p.)
• Disciplina: 720/.1
• Soggetto topico: Visionary architecture; Utopias; Architecture - Philosophy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-326) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Utopias and architecture
• ISBN: 1-135-99395-5; 1-281-15862-3; 9786611158620; 0-203-53687-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784856503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II