Utopias and Architecture

By Nathan Coleman and Nathaniel Coleman

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041570085X
• ISBN13: 9780415700856
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"