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Utopias and architecture / Nathaniel Coleman.
Fine Arts Library NA209.5 .C65 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coleman, Nathaniel, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Visionary architecture.
- Utopias.
- Architecture--Philosophy.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
- Contents:
- Introduction : utopias and architectures?
- Architecture and orientation
- Situating utopias
- Real fictions
- Varieties of architectural utopias
- Post war possibilities
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-326) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415700841
- 041570085X
- OCLC:
- 57579270
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