Main entry:

Coleman, Nathaniel, 1961-

Title & Author:

Utopias and architecture / Nathaniel Coleman.

Publication:

Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Description:

ix, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-326) and index.
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.

Summary:

A detailed and innovative re-assessment of the work of three architects - Le Corbusier, Louis I. Kahn and Aldo van Eyck - who sought to represent a utopian content in their work.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415700841 (hb ; alk. paper)
041570085X (pb ; alk. paper)
9780415700849 (hb ; alk. paper)
9780415700856 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Visionary architecture.
Utopias.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture visionnaire.
Utopies.
Architecture Philosophie.
visionary architecture.

Form/genre:

Utopias.
Utopian fiction.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 243964
Call No.: BIB 173661
Status: Available