Titre et auteur:

Imagining and making the world : reconsidering architecture and utopia / Nathaniel Coleman (ed.).

Publication:

Oxford [England] ; New York : Peter Lang, 2011.

Description:

xv, 349 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates ; 23 cm.

Série(s):

Ralahine utopian studies ; v. 8

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Architecture and utopia / Nathaniel Coleman -- pt. 1. Architecture and fiction -- Building utopia : the status of the ideal in Filarete's Trattato / Jonathan Powers -- Gautier, Boileau, and Chenavard : utopian architecture of the temple in mid-nineteenth-century France / Greg Kerr -- Du Génie en Utopie : the figure of the engineer in Balzacian and Zolian utopias / Valérie Narayana -- To see daydreams : the glass utopia of Paul Scheerbart and Bruno Taut / Ufuk Ersoy -- pt. 2. Reconsiderations -- An orderly life : Ildefons Cerdà and the Northern extension of Barcelona / Malcolm Miles -- Drawing blood : Patrick Geddes's sectional thinking / Ellen Sullivan -- Utopia on trial? / Nathaniel Coleman -- pt. 3. Prospects -- Spaces of resistance and compromise : the concrete utopia realized / David H. Haney -- Transcending the utopian-pragmatic divide in conflict cities : applying vision and imagination to Jerusalem's future / Diane E. Davis and Tali Hatuka -- "The mysterious qualities of this alleged void" : transvaluation and utopian urbanism in Rem Koolhaas's S, M, L, XL / Phillip E. Wegner -- pt. 4. Commentary -- Trialogue / Nathaniel Coleman, Ruth Levitas, and Lyman Tower Sargent.

Ressources:
ebrary

ISBN:

9783034301206 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
3034301200 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Sujet:

Visionary architecture.
Utopias.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture visionnaire.
Utopies.
visionary architecture.
utopias.
utopian literature.

Vedettes secondaires:

Coleman, Nathaniel, 1961-
Ralahine utopian studies ; v. 8.

Reconsidering architecture and utopia

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 280530
Cote: BIB 217350
Statut: Disponible