Wergeland, Even Smith, 1981- author.

From utopia to reality : the motorway as a work of art / Even Smith Wergeland.

[Oslo] : Arkitekthøgskolen i Oslo, [2013]

viii, 483 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Thesis, 1502-217x ; avhandling 61

The thesis deals with the visualization of urban roads and mobility in architecture and urbanism in the postwar period, with a particular emphasis on intervisual links that inform visions of the mobile city. Through an exploration of empirical material ranging from municipal master plans to artistic motorway representations, it shows how seemingly remote disciplines are connected through a complicated exchange of images across time and space. Images of the mobile city influenced the international postwar architecture culture, exemplified by Team 10’s radical views on urban mobility, which charged the urban motorway with intrinsic aesthetic values. This discourse and its visualization strategies made a huge impact on the planning of Oslo in the postwar period, a time when car culture became deeply entangled in architectural and visual discourses. The thesis challenges the established perception of postwar Oslo as a technocratic city governed by pragmatism as it shows how utopian aspirations on behalf of urban motorway introduced a plethora of aesthetic, visual and architectural impulses that came to expression in the 1950s and 1960s. These influences can be detected in the contemporary Oslo cityscape, as traces of an urban aesthetic that made the leap from utopia to reality in far more sophisticated ways than previously acknowledged.

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City planning Norway Oslo History 20th century.
City traffic Norway Oslo History 20th century.
Roads Norway Oslo History 20th century.
Architecture Norway Oslo History.
Circulation urbaine Norvège Oslo Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Norvège Oslo Histoire.
Architecture.
Buildings.
City planning.
City traffic.
Roads.
Roads Norway Oslo History 20th century..
Architecture Norway Oslo History 20th century.
Oslo (Norway) Buildings, structures, etc.
Norway Oslo.

History.
Theses.

Con-text. Thesis ; 61.

Motorway as a work of art

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