Utopias and architecture
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.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Abingdon [England] ; New York :
Routledge
2005.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35532610*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
