| Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture Contributor(s): Alison, Jane (Editor), Brayer, Marie-Ange (Editor), Migayrou, Frederic (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0500286515 ISBN-13: 9780500286517 Publisher: Thames & Hudson OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2007 Annotation: An indispensable and innovative resource for anyone involved in contemporary architecture and urban development. Cities are the ultimate and most complex manifestations of human civilization. For millennia, architects and builders have attempted to rationalize them into well-functioning and livable places for their inhabitants. While many aspects of a city evolve naturally, other facets result from masterful human interventions and radical imagination. "Future City" celebrates the visionary urban plans that have preoccupied architects trying to create a better world from the 1950s to the present. The book features hundreds of seminal and influential works by some sixty architects, ranging from the groundbreaking experiments of Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Peter Cook, and Daniel Libeskind to a new generation of rising stars, including Asymptote, NOX, UN Studio, and Greg Lynn. 500+ illustrations. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Buildings - Public, Commercial & Industrial - Architecture | Urban & Land Use Planning - Social Science | Future Studies |
| Dewey: 724.6 |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 7.48" W x 9.42" (2.64 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
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| Publisher Description: From extraordinary houses and incredible towers, to fantasy cityscapes and inhabitable sculptures, Future City showcases the most radical and experimental architecture to have emerged in the past fifty years. Featuring hundreds of seminal and influential works by some sixty architects, this ambitious publication provides an indispensable resource for contemporary architectural and urban development and innovation in the third millennium. |