Utopias and architecture / Nathaniel Coleman.
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TextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2005Description: ix, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0415700841 (hb : alk. paper)
- 041570085X (pb : alk. paper)
- 720.1 22
- NA209.5 .C65 2005
Contents:
Introduction: utopias & architectures? -- Conceptualizing utopias -- Architecture & orientation -- Situating utopians -- Real fictions -- Varieties of architectural utopias -- Post war possibilities -- Optimistic architectures -- Le Corbusier's monastic ideal -- The life within -- Fairy tales & golden dust -- Kahn & 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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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 720.1 COL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A294422B |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: utopias & architectures? -- Conceptualizing utopias -- Architecture & orientation -- Situating utopians -- Real fictions -- Varieties of architectural utopias -- Post war possibilities -- Optimistic architectures -- Le Corbusier's monastic ideal -- The life within -- Fairy tales & golden dust -- Kahn & 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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