Impossible Worlds - Hardcover

Coates, Stephen; Stetter, Alex

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3764363177 ISBN 13: 9783764363178

Verlag: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

This book brings together visions of utopia from around the world, from the lowly caravan to grand city plans, and looks at the ideas and aims of the people who created them. For some, the possibilities offered by a technologically advanced future have led to the design of vast megastructures such as Arata Isozaki's 'Clusters in the Air'. Others have attempted to combine innovation with tradition in "planned communities" like the picture-perfect Seaside, in Florida. Some are motivated by money or politics, others by faith or philanthropy, like the factory owners who built houses and schools (but no pubs) for their workers in suburban Britain. All share a conviction that a better world is not impossible. "Impossible Worlds" features historical essays, case studies and new photography, as well as contributions by artists, philosophers and architects

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Stephen Coates arbeitet als Artdirector im Bereich Zeitschrift- und Buchdesign. Von 1990-98 war er künstlerischer Leiter der internationalen Zeitschrift für Graphic Design "Eye". Seit 1996 ist er Artdirector der Kunstzeitschrift "Tate"

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Birkhäuser Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3764363177
• ISBN 13: 9783764363178
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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