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Bringing together ten utopian works that mark important points in the history and an evolution in social and political philosophies, this book not only reflects on the texts and their political philosophy and implications, but also, their architecture and how that architecture informs the political philosophy or social agenda that the author intended. Each of the ten authors expressed their theory through concepts of community and utopian architecture, but each featured an architectural solution at the centre of their social and political philosophy, as none of the cities were ever built, they have remained as utopian literature. Some of the works examined are very well-known, such as Tommaso Campanella's Civitas Solis, while others such as Joseph Michael Gandy's Designs for Cottages, are relatively obscure. However, even with the best known works, this volume offers new insights by focusing on the architecture of the cities and how that architecture represents the author's political philosophy. It reconstructs the cities through a 3-D computer program, ArchiCAD, using Artlantis to render. Plans, sections, elevations and perspectives are presented for each of the cities. The ten cities are: Filarete - Sforzina; Albrecht Dürer - Fortified Utopia ; Tommaso Campanella - The City of the Sun ; Johann Valentin Andreae - Christianopolis ; Joseph Michael Gandy - An Agricultural Village ; Robert Owen - Villages of Unity and Cooperation ; James Silk Buckingham - Victoria ; Robert Pemberton - Queen Victoria Town ; King Camp Gillette - Metropolis ; and Bradford Peck - The World a Department Store. Each chapter considers the work in conjunction with contemporary thought, the political philosophy and the reconstruction of the city. Although these ten cities represent over 500 years of utopian and political thought, they are an interlinked thread that had been drawn from literature of the past and informed by contemporary thought and society. The book is structured in two parts : the utopian Renaissance cities and the utopian cities of the Industrial Revolution.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Environmental planning --- Architecture --- History of Europe --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1400-1499 --- Utopias --- Visionary architecture --- Unbuilt architectural projects --- Utopie --- Histoire de l'architecture --- Architecture visionnaire --- Political aspects --- Utopies --- Architecture fantastique --- Utopies architecturales --- Aspect politique --- Architecture et politique --- Utopies. --- Architecture et politique. --- Architecture fantastique. --- Utopies architecturales. --- Utopie architecturale --- Political aspects. --- Architecture - Political aspects

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"What can political theory teach us about architecture, and what can it learn from paying closer attention to architecture? The essays assembled in this volume begin from a common postulate: that architecture is not merely a backdrop to political life but a political force in its own right. Each in their own way, they aim to give countenance to that claim, and to show how our thinking about politics can be enriched by reflecting on the built environment. The collection advances four lines of inquiry, probing the connection between architecture and political regimes; examining how architecture can be constitutive of the ethical and political realm; uncovering how architecture is enmeshed in logics of governmentality and in the political economy of the city; and asking to what extent we can think of architecture-tributary as it is to the flows of capital-as a partially autonomous social force. Taken together, the essays demonstrate the salience of a range of political theoretical approaches for the analysis of architecture, and show that architecture deserves a place as an object of study in political theory, alongside institutions, laws, norms, practices, imaginaries, and discourses."--

Architecture and state --- Architecture and society --- Architecture --- Politique --- Analyse de l'architecture --- Political aspects --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- architecture [object genre] --- Philosophy: aesthetics --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- State and architecture --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Architecture - Political aspects --- architectuurfilosofie --- Architecture and state. --- Architecture and society.

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'Narrative Architecture' reveals a stream of remarkable architectural and urban visions in the twentieth century that culminated in the construction of one of the most powerful, misunderstood and underutilized weapons of architectural and urban critique, thinking and representation. This historical genealogy in three parts weaves inseparable modern architecture and narrative critique through never before seen images of half a century of utopian, heroic, commercial, ironic and critical projects by Le Corbusier, Team 10, Constant, Victor Gruen, Yona Friedman, Archizoom, Superstudio and Rem Koolhaas. Alluding to Diogenes, the ancient kynic who wandered with a lantern in search of an honest man, through narrative, archival and provocative images and texts, the book lays the groundwork in search of an honest architecture able to question the pressing challenges of our times.

72.049 --- 72.038 --- 72.07 --- 741:72 --- Cruz Garcia & Nathalie Frankowski --- Architectuurtheorie ; stedenbouw ; 20ste eeuw --- Steden ; architectuur ; utopische --- Visionaire architectuur en stedenbouw --- Architectuur ; verschillende onderwerpen --- Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 1950 - 2000 --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen --- Tekenkunst ; architectuurtekeningen --- Architecture, Modern --- Visionary architecture --- Architecture --- Critical theory --- Idéologie --- Politique de l'architecture --- Critique architecturale --- Utopie architecturale --- Situationnisme --- Mouvement moderne --- Team ten --- Political aspects --- Le Corbusier, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, --- Constant --- Gruen, Victor, --- Friedman, Yona, --- Koolhaas, Rem, --- Archizoom --- Superstudio --- History of civilization --- utopias --- visionary architecture --- Modern Movement --- Architecture, Modern - 20th century --- Architecture - Political aspects --- Le Corbusier, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, 1887-1965 --- Gruen, Victor, 1903-1980 --- Friedman, Yona, 1923-2019 --- Koolhaas, Rem, 1944 --- -Architecture --- -72.049