Architecture And Utopia

Author : Manfredo Tafuri
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262700207
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Utopia written by Manfredo Tafuri and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1979-10-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture and Utopia leads the reader beyond architectural form into a broader understanding of the relation of architecture to society and the architect to the workforce and the marketplace. Written from a neo-Marxist point of view by a prominent Italian architectural historian, Architecture and Utopia leads the reader beyond architectural form into a broader understanding of the relation of architecture to society and the architect to the workforce and the marketplace. It discusses the Garden Cities movement and the suburban developments it generated, the German-Russian architectural experiments of the 1920s, the place of the avant-garde in the plastic arts, and the uses and pitfalls of seismological approaches to architecture, and assesses the prospects of socialist alternatives.

Author : Nathaniel Coleman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135993947
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Utopias and Architecture written by Nathaniel Coleman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Lawrence Chua
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824884604
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bangkok Utopia written by Lawrence Chua and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Utopia” is a word not often associated with the city of Bangkok, which is better known for its disorderly sprawl, overburdened roads, and stifling levels of pollution. Yet as early as 1782, when the city was officially founded on the banks of the Chao Phraya river as the home of the Chakri dynasty, its orientation was based on material and rhetorical considerations that alluded to ideal times and spaces. The construction of palaces, monastic complexes, walls, forts, and canals created a defensive network while symbolically locating the terrestrial realm of the king within the Theravada Buddhist cosmos. Into the twentieth century, pictorial, narrative, and built representations of utopia were critical to Bangkok’s transformation into a national capital and commercial entrepôt. But as older representations of the universe encountered modern architecture, building technologies, and urban planning, new images of an ideal society attempted to reconcile urban-based understandings of Buddhist liberation and felicitous states like nirvana with worldly models of political community like the nation-state. Bangkok Utopia outlines an alternative genealogy of both utopia and modernism in a part of the world that has often been overlooked by researchers of both. It examines representations of utopia that developed in the city—as expressed in built forms as well as architectural drawings, building manuals, novels, poetry, and ecclesiastical murals—from its first general strike of migrant laborers in 1910 to the overthrow of the military dictatorship in 1973. Using Thai- and Chinese-language archival sources, the book demonstrates how the new spaces of the city became arenas for modern subject formation, utopian desires, political hegemony, and social unrest, arguing that the modern city was a space of antinomy—one able not only to sustain heterogeneous temporalities, but also to support conflicting world views within the urban landscape. By underscoring the paradoxical character of utopias and their formal narrative expressions of both hope and hegemony, Bangkok Utopia provides an innovative way to conceptualize the uneven economic development and fractured political conditions of contemporary global cities.

Author : Manfredo Tafuri
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262700204
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Utopia written by Manfredo Tafuri and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1979-10-02 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture and Utopia leads the reader beyond architectural form into a broader understanding of the relation of architecture to society and the architect to the workforce and the marketplace. Written from a neo-Marxist point of view by a prominent Italian architectural historian, Architecture and Utopia leads the reader beyond architectural form into a broader understanding of the relation of architecture to society and the architect to the workforce and the marketplace. It discusses the Garden Cities movement and the suburban developments it generated, the German-Russian architectural experiments of the 1920s, the place of the avant-garde in the plastic arts, and the uses and pitfalls of seismological approaches to architecture, and assesses the prospects of socialist alternatives.

Author : Reinhold Martin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452915326
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Utopia's Ghost written by Reinhold Martin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written at the intersection of culture, politics & the city, particularly in the context of corporate globalization, 'Utopia's Ghost' challenges dominant theoretical paradigms & opens new avenues for architectural scholarship & cultural analysis.

Author : Jane Alison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Future City written by Jane Alison and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From extraordinary houses and incredible towers, to fantasy cityscapes and inhabitable sculptures, this work showcases the radical and experimental architecture. Featuring seminal and influential works by some sixty architects, it provides a resource for contemporary architectural and urban development and innovation in the third millennium

Author : Franco Borsi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Utopia written by Franco Borsi and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marco Biraghi
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262519569
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Project of Crisis written by Marco Biraghi and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the influential Italian architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri's historical construction of contemporary architecture. The influential Italian architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri (1935–1994) invoked the productive possibilities of crisis, writing that history is a "project of crisis" (progetto di crisi). In this entry in the Writing Architecture series, Marco Biraghi explores Tafuri's multifaceted and often knotty oeuvre, using the historian's concept of a project of crisis as a lens through which to examine his historical construction of contemporary architecture. Mindful of Tafuri's statement that there is no such thing as criticism, only history, Biraghi carefully maps the influences on Tafuri's writing—Walter Benjamin, Karl Krauss, Massimo Cacciari, and the architect Ludovico Quaroni, among others—in order to create a portrait of one of the most complex minds in twentieth-century architecture and architectural history. Tracing an arc from Tafuri's first articles in the magazine Contropiano to the idea of contradiction at the center of the project of crisis, Biraghi cites Tafuri's writing on some of his contemporaries, including Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier, Robert Venturi, Aldo Rossi, and the "Five Architects" (Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk, and Richard Meier). Tafuri's historical construction of the contemporary, Biraghi explains, is based on the idea that the past is open, providing the present with ever-changing and indeterminate form. There is no contradiction between Tafuri the historian and Tafuri the contemporary critic, only the greatest possible integration. The importance of Tafuri's interpretation of architecture goes beyond mere academic or historiographic interest, Biraghi argues; Tafuri's notion of the project of crisis is fundamentally important in understanding our present-day architectural condition

Author : Matthias Böttger
Publisher : Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV
ISBN 13 : 9783899553352
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Utopia Forever written by Matthias Böttger and published by Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational exploration of utopias and radical approaches to city planning.

Author : Peter Blake
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Place Like Utopia written by Peter Blake and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1996 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Place Like Utopia has a deep theme: how modern architecture, born and raised between the wars and after with a strong sense of social and political idealism, gradually fell back in the 1960s into its ancient role as an elitist pursuit dedicated to flattering the rich and powerful.