Title & Author:

Future city : experiment and utopia in architecture / edited by Jane Alison [and others].

Publication:

Description:

336 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held 15 June 2006-17 September 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery.
Introduction / Jane Alison -- The spirit of experimentation / Marie-Ange Brayer -- Non-standard orders: 'NSA codes' / Frédéric Migayrou -- New Babylon : Guy Ernest Debord ; Constant Nieuwenhuys ; Yona Friedman -- New urban habitat : Ionel Schein ; David Georges Emmerich ; Alison & Peter Smithson ; Pascal Häauersmann ; Chanéac ; David Green (Archigram) -- Organic city : André Bloc ; Ricardo Porro ; Antti Lovag ; Vittorio Giorgini ; Pierre Székely ; Arthur Quarmby -- Inflatable city : Peter Cook & Ron Herron (Archigram) ; Coop Himmelb(l)ou ; Haus-Rucker-Co. ; Graham Stevens -- Megastructure : Hans Hollein ; Eilfried Huth & Günther Domenig ; Chanéac ; Walter Pichler -- The oblique city : Architecture Principe -- The metabolists : Kenzo Tange ; Kiyonori Kikutake ; Kisho Kurokawa ; Arata Isozaki ; Radical architecture in Italy : Archizoom Associati Superstudio ; The delirious metropolis : Rem Koolhaas -- Concept city : Gianni Pettena ; James Wines & SITE ; Gordon Matta-Clark -- Diller + Scofidio ; Didier Fiuza Faustino -- Deconstruction : Bernard Tschumi ; Coop Himmelb(l)ou ; Peter Eisenman ; Daniel Libeskind ; Morphosis ; Eric Owen Moss ; Michele Saee ; Asymptote ; Lebbeus Woods ; Zaha Hadid -- Machine architecture : Neil Denari ; Jones, Partners: Architecture -- Urban intervention : NATO ; Nigel Coates ; Will Alsop -- Experimental living : Future systems ; Eisaku Ushida & Kathryn Findlay ; Shigeru Ban ; C.J. Lim + Studio 8 Architects -- Non-standard architecture : NOX ; dECOi ; KOL/MAC Studio ; EZCT Architecture & Design Research ; Objectile ; Périphéiques ; Dagmar Richter Studio ; OCEAN NORTH -- Contemporary process : OMA ; Makoto Sei Watanabe ; Foreign Office Architects ; MVRDV ; R & Sie ... ; Jakob & MacFarlane ; Diller + Scofidio ; UN Studio -- Architects and works.

Summary:

"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." "Featuring 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 alongside a new generation of rising stars, including Asymptote, NOX, UN Studio, and Greg Lynn, this publication assembles several generations of utopian architecture in a single volume. The book provides an indispensable resource for contemporary architectural and urban development and innovation in the third millennium. Future City demonstrates how breaking from convention can reveal new territories of design and architecture in our great cities."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0500286515 (pbk.)
9780500286517 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
City planning History 20th century Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern 21st century Exhibitions.
City planning History 21st century Exhibitions.
Architecture 20e siècle Expositions.
Urbanisme Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture 21e siècle Expositions.
Urbanisme Histoire 21e siècle Expositions.
Architecture, Modern.
City planning.
Stedenbouw.
Utopieën.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Alison, Jane, 1959-
Barbican Art Gallery.

Experiment and utopia in architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252433
Call No.: BIB 182131
Status: Available