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Utopias and architecture
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Title
Utopias and architecture [electronic resource] / Nathaniel Coleman.
ISBN
0415700841 (hb : alk. paper)
9780415700849 (hb : alk. paper)
041570085X (pb : alk. paper)
9780415700856 (pb : alk. paper)
Published
Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Physical Description
ix, 334 p. : ill.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 28, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-326) and index.
Contents
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.
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