The Architecture of Fantasy; Utopian Building and Planning in Modern Times
New York: Praeger, 1962. First American edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 187, indexed, illustrated in b/w photographs. Very Good in Chipped and Torn DJ. Item #23774
This book presents - for the first time in English - a copiously illustrated study of architectural fantasy in the modern world. Here in one volume is a selection of the unusual and the visionary in 20th century architecture, a fascinating record of the varieties in form, geometry, material, and imagery out of which architectural fantasy is spun. The purpose of this volume is to show that 20th-century architecture actually has a tradition of more daring and imaginative structure, form, and symbol than is generally supposed. The authors demonstrate the legitimacy of the works of human and technological fantasy, and trace the genealogy of modern utopian building back to the engineering triumphs and poetic aspirations that characterized imaginative building in the last century.
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