Category list : Utopia
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Folio: The Flying CitySubscription
Georgii Krutikov’s drawings depict a utopia where people work on the ground and live in the clouds
Perestroika of lifeSubscription
The ‘social condenser’ encouraged collective consciousness and elevated the design of life to a science
Typology: New townsSubscription
Creating new urban areas from scratch may appear to be a utopian exercise, but more frequently it entrenches existing systems of power
The end of utopiaSubscription
Architects have always dreamed of building a better world, dreams that were realised on a gigantic new scale in the twentieth century, but since the 1970s this ambition has faded – so why did we stop thinking about tomorrow?
The mirage of an ideal metropolisSubscription
The unattainable shore of utopia spurs great feats of discovery
Building utopia: 50 years of AurovilleSubscription
A much-desired multicultural paradise has metamorphosed into an ecological Shangri-La
What an exhibition of fantastical utopias drawn by Bartlett graduates says about urban spaceSubscription
The captivating images of these speculative projects have more in common with art than architecture, but the Urban Tales exhibition nevertheless challenges our view of the city
Troubles in Theory Part VI: From Utopia to HeterotopiaSubscription
The sixth instalment in the series turns to the theory of ‘space’ as it was reinterpreted from its Modernist origins to serve political analysis and practice, and focuses on the work and influence of Michel Foucault
View From New HarmonySubscription
Once conceived as a socialist utopia, today New Harmony is a curiously equal community inhabiting an equally curious architectural legacy
