Utopias and architecture /
Nathaniel Coleman.
- ix, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.