Title & Author:

Exit Utopia : architectural provocations, 1956-76 / edited by Martin van Schaik and Otaker Máčel.

Publication:

Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel, ©2005.

Description:

319 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans, portraits ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Yona Friedman: Paris spatial (1959-61) -- Peter Cook with Warren Chalk and Dennis Crompton: plug-in city (1963-66) -- Superstudio: the continuous monument (1969) -- Archizoom associates: no-stop city (1969-72) -- Superstudio: the fundamental acts/five stories by superstudio (1972-73) -- Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis with Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis: exodus or the voluntary prisoners of architecture (1972) -- Léon Krier: project from the new quartier of La Villette (1976).

Summary:

This examination of a key moment in modern architecture pointedly and critically evaluates the role of the neo-avant-garde in today's world. International in scope the book explores important exponents of 'visionary' and 'utopian' architecture in the closing juncture of the modernist era.

ISBN:

3791329731 (pbk.)
9783791329734 (pbk.)

Subject:

Constant 1920-2005 New-Babylon-Projekt
Constant.
Neu-Babylon.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture Philosophy.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture Philosophie.
architectural theory.
Architecture, Modern
Experimentelle Architektur
Stadtplanung
Utopische Architektur
Bouwkunst.
Verbeelding.
Experimenteel ontwerp.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Theses.

Added entries:

Schaik, Martin van, editor.
Máčel, Otakar, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 244876
Call No.: NA680 .E9 2005
Status: Available