Utopias and architecture / Nathaniel Coleman.

Author/creator Coleman, Nathaniel, 1961-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAbingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge,
Descriptionix, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 319-326) and index.
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LCCN 2005003078
ISBN0415700841 (hb : alk. paper)
ISBN9780415700849 (hb : alk. paper)
ISBN041570085X (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN9780415700856 (pb : alk. paper)

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