Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Jane Alison
By (author) Marie-Ange Brayer
By (author) Frederic Migayrou
By (author) Neil Spiller
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:336
Dimensions(mm): Height 240,Width 187
Category/GenreArchitecture
ISBN/Barcode 9780500286517
ClassificationsDewey:720
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout

Publishing Details

Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Date 22 January 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

For millennia, architects and builders have attempted to rationalize cities into well-functioning and liveable places. While many aspects of a city evolve naturally, other facets result from human interventions and radical imagination. Future City celebrates the visionary urban schemes that have preoccupied architects trying to create a better world from the 1950s to the present. This ambitious publication assembles several generations of utopian architecture in a single volume. With the city serving as the context and catalyst for the works, the book provides and indispensable resource for contemporary architectural and urban development and innovation in the third millennium.

Author Biography

Jane Alison is Head of Visual Arts at the Barbican, London. Marie-Ange Brayer is director of the Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain du Centre (FRAC) in Orleans, France.