Utopias and ArchitectureRoutledge, 7 may 2007 - 352 páginas 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 assumptions in current architectural discourse, forging a new approach to the invention of welcoming built environments and transcending the limitations of both the postmodern and hyper-modern stance and orthodox modernist architecture. |
Índice
utopias and architectures? | 1 |
Part 1 Conceptualizing utopias | 7 |
1 Architecture and orientation | 9 |
2 Situating utopias | 24 |
3 Real fictions | 46 |
4 Varieties of architectural utopias | 63 |
5 Postwar possibilities | 88 |
Part II Optimistic architectures | 113 |
8 Fairy tales and golden dust | 155 |
9 Kahn and Salks challenge to dualistic thinking | 174 |
10 Aldo van Eycks utopian discipline | 196 |
11 Story of another idea | 214 |
12 The unthinkability of utopia | 234 |
13 Into the present | 257 |
Notes | 297 |
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