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Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture

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Author/EditorAlison, Jane; Brayer, Marie-Ange; Spille (Author)
Brayer, Marie-Ange (Author)
Migayrou, Frederic (Author)
Spiller, Neil (Author)
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
ISBN: 9780500286517
Pub Date22/01/2007
BindingPaperback
Pages336
Dimensions (mm)240(h) * 187(w)
From extraordinary houses and incredible towers, to fantasy cityscapes and inhabitable sculptures, this work showcases the radical and experimental architecture. Featuring seminal and influential works by some sixty architects, it provides a resource for contemporary architectural and urban development and innovation in the third millennium.
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From extraordinary houses and incredible towers, to fantasy cityscapes and inhabitable sculptures, Future City showcases the most radical and experimental architecture to have emerged in the past fifty years. Featuring hundreds of seminal and influential works by some sixty architects, this ambitious publication provides an indispensable resource for contemporary architectural and urban development and innovation in the third millennium.

From extraordinary houses and incredible towers, to fantasy cityscapes and inhabitable sculptures, Future City showcases the most radical and experimental architecture to have emerged in the past fifty years. Featuring hundreds of seminal and influential works by some sixty architects, this ambitious publication provides an indispensable resource for contemporary architectural and urban development and innovation in the third millennium.

Jane Alison is Head of Visual Arts at the Barbican, London. Marie-Ange Brayer is director of the Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain du Centre (FRAC) in Orleans, France.

Introduction by Jane Alison * The Spirit of Experimentation by Marie-Ange Brayer * Non-standard Orders: 'nsa codes' by Frederic Migayrou * New Babylon * New Urban Habitat * Organic City * Inflatable City Megastructure * The Oblique City * The Metabolists * Radical Architecture in Italy * The Delirious Metropolis * Concept City Deconstruction * Machine Architecture * Urban Intervention Experimental Living * Non-standard architecture * Contemporary Process * Architects and Works

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