Title
Imagining and Making the World:
Reconsidering Architecture and Utopia
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Editor
COLEMAN, Nathaniel
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Description
“Although the association between architecture and
utopia (the relationship between imagining a new world and exploring how its
new conditions can best be organized) might appear obvious from within the domain
of utopian studies, architects have long attempted to dissociate themselves from
Utopia. Concentrating on the difficulties writers from both perspectives have
with the topic, this collection interrogates the meta-theoretical problematic
for ongoing intellectual work on architecture and Utopia. The essays explore
divergent manifestations of the play of Utopia on architectural imagination,
situated within specific historical moments, from the early Renaissance to the
present day.” (PL)
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Academic publishing house
Peter Lang
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Year
2011