Utopias and Architecture

ISBN: 9780415700849

作者: Nathaniel Coleman

出版社: Routledge

出版年: 2005-11

页数: 352

定价: $ 169.44

装帧: HRD

内容简介

Utopian thought, though commonly characterized as projecting a future without a past, depends on golden models for re-invention of what "is". Through a detailed and innovative re-assessment of the work of three architects who sought to represent a utopian content in their work, and a consideration of the thoughts of a range of leading writers, Coleman offers the reader a unique perspective of idealism in architectural design. With unparalleled depth and focus of vision on the work of Le Corbusier, Louis I Kahn and Aldo van Eyck, this book persuasively challenges predominant assumptions in current architectural discourse, forging a new approach to the invention of welcoming built environments and transcending the limitations of both the postmodern and hyper-modern stance and orthodox modernist architecture.