Title & Author:

Utopie : texts and projects, 1967-1978 / edited by Craig Buckley and Jean-Louis Violeau ; translated by Jean-Marie Clarke.

Publication:

Los Angeles, Calif. : Semiotext(e) ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 2011.

Description:

323 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Series:

Semiotext(e) foreign agents series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: The echo of utopia / Craig Buckley -- Outlines of urbanism as a critical system of thought / René Lourau -- Haussmann's nightmare / Unsigned -- Art? ...! / Antoine Stinco -- Notes on Marxism and aesthetics / René Lourau -- Dialectical utopia / Unsigned -- Repression / Hubert Tonka & René Lourau -- Becoming outdated / Jean Aubert -- The ephemeral / Jean Baudrillard -- Paper cities / Jean-Paul Jungmann -- Who will look beyond the strict limits of the page / Isabelle Auricoste -- The logic of urbanism / Utopie -- Architecture as a theoretical problem / Utopie (Tonka, Jungmann, Aubert) -- On the participation of the whores nature and culture / Isabelle Auricoste & Charles Goldblum -- Critique of urban ideology / Hubert Tonka -- From urban science to urban strategy / Henri Lefebvre -- Technics as social practice / Jean Baudrillard -- The technical production of the imaginary / Isabelle Auricoste -- Excerpts from The ideology of technology and ideological practice / Charles Goldblum, Jean-Paul Jungmann & Antoine Stinco -- Utopia is not written in the future tense ; The money of urbanism / Utopie -- The mystique of environment / Unsigned -- Requiem for the media / Jean Baudrillard -- Codicil / Unsigned -- The mirror of production / Jean Baudrillard -- There's no more government ; Revolutionary exoticism ; Satellites and ideograms ; War scenario / Unsigned -- We are all stuffed, like animals / Gérard Hubert -- Afterword: Utopie : at the beginning and beyond the end / Jean-Louis Violeau.
Translated from the French.

Summary:

The short-lived grouping of architects, sociologists, and urbanists known as Utopie was active in Paris from 1967 to 1978. This book makes the groups diverse body of theoretical work accessible in English for the first time.

ISBN:

9781584350958
1584350954

Subject:

Visionary architecture France History 20th century.
Architects France History 20th century.
Sociologists France History 20th century.
Protest movements France History 20th century.
Architecture visionnaire France Histoire 20e siècle.
Architectes France Histoire 20e siècle.
Sociologues France Histoire 20e siècle.
Contestation France Histoire 20e siècle.
Architects.
Protest movements.
Sociologists.
Visionary architecture.
France.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Buckley, Craig.
Violeau, Jean-Louis.
Clarke, Jean-Marie
Semiotext(e) foreign agents series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287275
Call No.: BIB 228191
Status: Available