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Journal articles on the topic "Utopian architecture"

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Meireis, Sandra. "Micro-utopias in architecture." SAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal 10, no. 1 (2018): 13–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/saj1801013m.

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In recent years, new formats of socially engaged architectural practices have become increasingly present in the urban space. Projects of temporary use, mostly erected by transdisciplinary working collectives, have become part of a broader trend, marking a social turn in architecture. In this paper, these practices are understood as a concrete aesthetic and political phenomenon that brings about alternative forms of social coexistence: micro-utopias arise against the backdrop of urban NEO-liberalisation processes. The history of utopia, and particularly the utopian tradition in architecture, facilitate to put this argument forward.
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Nekrošius, Liutauras. "ETHICAL ASPECTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY UTOPIAS IN ARCHITECTURE." Journal of Architecture and Urbanism 31, no. 1 (March 31, 2007): 67–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/13921630.2007.10697092.

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Utopias are often looked upon as a positive phenomenon stimulating human thinking and imagination. This could not be denied. Although when morality is treated just as a tool to achieve generous intentions, realization of utopias is usually followed by different social repressions. A good deal of research has been done on utopian societies. But most often such works are merely focussed on the subjects of innovation, imagination and tangibility. In research works by western as well as soviet authors certain idealization of the research object can be felt, and the issues of social utopias are rarely discussed. These questions are worth reviewing on a broader scale. The present work focusses on the aspects of communist (socialist) utopian ethics and its links with modernism. It is important to compare ethical differences of architectural utopias that existed in West European and soviet spaces. The present text is a part of a wider research on structuralistic ideas in contemporary Lithuanian architecture. The author thinks such a review may help to develop more precise understanding of the development peculiarities of humanistic ideas in architecture of the 20th century in our country. XX a. architektūros utopijų etiniai aspektai Santrauka Dažnai laikomasi nuostatos, kad utopija teigiamas, žmogaus mąstymą ir vaizduotę skatinantis reiškinys. Su tuo negalima nesutikti. Tačiau kai moralumą imama traktuoti kaip kilnių tikslų įrankį, utopijos įgyvendinimą neretai ima lydėti įvairios socialinės represijos. Utopinių visuomenių tyrimų gausu. Tačiau juose dažniau nagrinėjamos novacijų, vaizduotės, realumo temos. Vakarų bei sovietinių autorių darbuose neretai jaučiamas tiriamojo objekto idealizavimas, retai svarstomi socialiniai utopijų klausimai. Juos tikslinga apžvelgti plačiau. Darbe dėmesys telkiamas ties komunistinės (socialistinės) utopijos etikos aspektais bei šios utopijos sąsajomis su modernizmu. Svarbu palyginti Vakarų Europos bei sovietinėje erdvėse gyvavusių architektūros utopijų etinius skirtumus. Šis tekstas yra platesnio tyrimo apie struktūralistines idėjas šiuolaikinėje Lietuvos architektūroje dalis. Manoma, kad tokia apžvalga padės tiksliau suvokti XX a. humanistinių architektūros idėjų raidos savitumus mūsų šalyje.
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Černauskienė, Aušra. "Novelty of Artistic Forms in Contemporary Lithuanian Architecture." Architecture and Urban Planning 11, no. 1 (July 1, 2016): 6–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aup-2016-0001.

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Abstract The article presents an analysis of the concept of novelty of artistic forms and its visual expressions in contemporary Lithuanian architecture. It is stated that the novelty is virtually manifested through utopian visions of the new world and their metamorphoses, and is made relevant by the method of experiment. Based on examples of Western European architectural utopias and experiments, the article suggests the formulated indicators of novelty, which are reflected in artistic forms of contemporary Lithuanian architecture. The aim of the research is to reveal the concept of novelty linking it with transformation and utopia, and illustrating it with the objects of contemporary Lithuanian architecture.
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Coleman, Nathaniel. "Utopia and modern architecture?" Architectural Research Quarterly 16, no. 4 (December 2012): 339–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135513000225.

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It is a commonplace to describe twentieth-century Modernist architecture as utopian, but doing so arguably has less to do with putative social agendas than with explaining the failure of such work to deliver on extravagant promises. By interrogating utopian declarations for twentieth-century architecture and visionary urban representations, the aim of this article is to sharpen the loose pairing of Modernist architecture and Utopia. Consideration is also given to how undue emphasis on representation supports post-rationalisations of failure as the inevitable teleology of Utopia, which serves only to empty architecture of its ethical function. To conclude, some preliminary thoughts on the prospects of a more convincingly utopian modern architecture are advanced.
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Zvjagintseva, M. M. "UTOPIC IDEAS IN RUSSIAN ARCHTECTURE IN CULTURAL ASPECT." Proceedings of the Southwest State University 21, no. 4 (August 28, 2017): 32–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.21869/2223-1560-2017-21-4-32-38.

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Utopia is one of the most stable archetypical cultural concepts because it reflects the mankind’s desire to improve their world, find a better way of social organization and return to the paradise lost. The idea of the “general welfare domain” had been present in myths and religions of different peoples long before the term “Utopia” appeared as such. Utopian ideals were extremely typical of the European culture due to its extroversion and the aspiration for a more rational existence. Utopia demonstrates a number of very typical features including commonality, special isolation, timelessness (absence of historical times), autarchy (self-sufficiency, independence from the outer world, etc. including the separation from people), urbanism, regimentation and globality. Since XVI-XVII centuries the image of an ideal society has shaped as a city on an island. As a city quite often looks like an ideally transformable space, architectural Utopia plays a very specific role: it personifies the social Utopia. City-planning interpretation of Thomas Moor’s ideas presented a big interest for his contemporaries. Later there were many projects of “ideal” cities that were developed by Italian Renaissance architects. The XVIII century was marked by the appearance of Utopian socialist philosophy. A part of its supporters used to think that metropolitan cities could make a sound foundation for the development of industrial civilization, others advocated the networks of small independent communities. In Russia the first belletristic Utopias appeared in the XVIII century. They continued West-European traditions and preserved all traits of a classical Utopia, however, they acquired national color. All of them pictured an ideal future society that was embodied in new city types. Russian architectural Utopias are closely connected with social processes that predetermined the development of European culture in general. National Utopian architecture had its prime time after the revolution when architects got opportunities to implement their bold ideas
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Guneri, Gizem Deniz. "Peter Cook Beyond Archigram." Prostor 28, no. 1 (59) (June 27, 2020): 130–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.31522/p.28.1(59).8.

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This text visits and manifests the critical utopianism embedded in the praxis of Peter Cook, within which resides a promising mode of architectural thinking based on reflexive inquiries rather than absolute and closed utopias. It aims to revert questions that link utopia and spatial determinism towards questions that revolve around utopian methodologies that become trainings of architectural imagination.
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Blagojević, Ljiljana. "Architecture utopia realism: Thematic framework." SAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal 6, no. 3 (2014): 138–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/saj1402138b.

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The term or concept of realism seems to be recurring in recent theoretical inquiries, from debates in philosophy and aesthetics to those in theory and practice of architecture. Since 2000, the architectural discourse has been concerned with a wide range of related issues coming from its own post-critical debates on utopianism and realism and the possibility of an 'utopian realism', as suggested by Reinhold Martin (2005). The debates on realism resonate in the architectural theory anew as a reflection on the Manifesto of New Realism by the philosopher Maurizio Ferraris from 2011. The questions of realism vs. postmodernism, "new realism" on the ashes of post-modernism, critical and operative notions of realism and the like, have been asked both through practices of contemporary architecture and through reconsideration of the socialist realism in history and theory of architecture. The thematic issue of SAJ: Architecture Utopia Realism aims to further the ongoing discussion on the relations of architecture with realism and utopia
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Tamari, Tomoko. "Metabolism: Utopian Urbanism and the Japanese Modern Architecture Movement." Theory, Culture & Society 31, no. 7-8 (September 16, 2014): 201–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276414547777.

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The Fukushima catastrophe has led to important practical and conceptual shifts in contemporary Japanese architecture which in turn has led to a re-evaluation of the influential 1960s Japanese modern architecture movement, Metabolism. The Metabolists had the ambition to create a new Japanese society through techno-utopian city planning. The new generation of Japanese architects, after the Fukushima event, no longer seek evolutionally social change; rather, the disaster has made them re-consider what architecture is and what architects can do for people who had everything snatched from them by technology (nuclear power station) and nature (earthquake and tsunami). Drawing on the architectural projects of Tange Kenzo and Metabolists in the 1960s and Ito Toyo’s ‘Home-for-All project’ in 2011, the paper explores this major paradigm shift in Japanese architectural theory and practices.
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Gudelytė-Račienė, Indrė. "Some Terminological and Typological Features of Unrealized Architecture." Coactivity: Philology, Educology 23, no. 2 (December 28, 2015): 138–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/cpe.2015.279.

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The article analyzes the topic of unrealized architecture in both linguistic and typological perspective. The author raises hitherto rarely discussed terminological issues, analyzes the most commonly used notions and terms in conjuction with their suitability in architectural discourse. The article suggests the general typological model of unrealized architecture. Furthermore, the paper reveals the change of the concept of some unrealized architectural projects’ types (specifically “utopian” and “visionary”) throughout history.
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Porotto, Alessandro. "Utopia and vision. Learning from Vienna and Frankfurt." Joelho Revista de Cultura Arquitectonica, no. 7 (December 25, 2016): 84–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/1647-8681_7_7.

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The article identifies and observes critically two emblematic cases of modern utopia of 1920s: Das rote Wien and Das neue Frankfurt. These two architectural experiences correspond to two alternative but complementary spatial and social models, the courtyard block (Hof) and the settlement (Siedlung). Through the historical distance today we can observe in critical way these experiences, analyzing the effects of utopian character within the contemporary city.Referring to the theoretical concepts of “utopia” and “realism” by Tafuri, the analysis tries to show the spatial elements that characterize these examples. The comparative approach highlights that today their solutions produce spatial quality at the urban and housing scale. In this way, Höfe and Siedlungen represent a “vision”.The actuality of utopia of social housing in Vienna and Frankfurt is the starting point to reflect to the contemporary architecture and collective living.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Utopian architecture"

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Lau, Sing Yeung (Sing Yeung Sunnie). "The death of growing cities?! : reconstructing the post-utopian urbanism in China now!" Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79133.

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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2013.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-132).
THROUGHOUT HUMAN CIVILIZATIONS; THERE WERE MOMENTS OF COLLECTIVE ATTEMPTS TO REBUILD A UTOPIAN FUTURE TRIGGERED BY POLITICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND/ OR ECONOMIC CRISES. CRISIS SEEMS TO BE A UNIQUE MOMENT TO INITIATE/ GAIN CRITICAL MASS ATTENTION TOWARDS MAKING A NEW PAGE/CHANGE IN HISTORY. IN OTHER WORDS, AS (ARCHITECTS AND URBAN PLANNERS) WE ARE CONSTANTLY RECONSTRUCTING UTOPIAN FUTURES, GREAT MODERNIST VISIONS IN THE 1920S' AND LATER IN 1960S'; THOUGH THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO COPE WITH THE EVOLVING ECONOMIC/ SOCIAL CONSTRUCT OF THE CURRENT SYSTEM--THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT MODEL OF CAPITALISM - THAT WE ARE OPERATING WITHIN SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. THE DISCREPANCY BETWEEN REALITIES AND THE INDIVIDUAL/ COLLECTIVE, PROJECTED FUTURE HAS SEEMED TO FAIL US. UTOPIA- BECOMES DYSTOPIA- OR EVEN SOMETHING UNREACHABLE - A MERE IDEOLOGICAL HOPE OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION--ALMOST LIKE A DOGMATIC RELIGION. PROJECTING INTO THE FUTURE, IN THE YEAR 2050, WHAT IF MOST DEVELOPMENTS IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES ARE FACING PROBLEMS OF MAINTAINING OR DEALING WITH OVERSIZED INFRASTRUCTURES? PROBING THE FUTURE IN TODAY'S EYES SUGGEST THAT THE FATE OF "NEW" CITIES HAVE LONG BEEN SCRIPTED AND ARE PRESCRIBED TO DOOM. AND NOW, WE ARE IN A CRITICAL MOMENT OF CRISIS/ OPPORTUNITY IN TURNING OVER TO A PATH TO A NEW ATTAINABLE REALITY IN THE MIST OF UNIMAGINABLE SPEED OF CITY MAKING PROCESS IN CHINA. NEVER BEEN MORE URGENT THAN BEFORE, ECONOMIC GROWTH ACCOMPANIED BY VAST URBANIZATION-THE CITIES AND THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE ARE IN TROUBLE NOW.... HOW SHOULD ARCHITECTS/ URBANISTS REACT IN A SMART WAY THAT COULD DEVISE A REMEDY TO "CORRECT" THE ULTIMATE "SYSTEMATIC FAILURE" IN THE POST-UTOPIAN FUTURE? AND WHAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED TO URBANISM--30 YEARS AGO-WILL HAPPEN NOW? THIS THESIS INTENDS TO REVISIT AND UNPACK THE ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGY OF HYBRID GROUP-FORM IN HOUSING, QUESTIONS THE PERMANENT/ INFLEXIBLE NATURE OF THE IDEOLOGIES OF THESE TYPOLOGIES. THE THESIS ATTEMPTS AS AN COMPREHENSIVE DOCUMENTATION OF AN ANATOMY OPERATION IN FINDING THE ELEMENTS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE PARADOX OF INCAPABILITY IN ADDRESSING THE CYCLE OF LIFE AND DEATH OF CITIES ESPECIALLY AT THOSE MOMENTS OF ARISING COMPLICATION AND MULTIPLICITY OF ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND CULTURAL CRISIS IN THE NEW ERA OF CHINA.
by Sing Yeung (Sunnie) Lau.
M.Arch.
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Parslow, Michelle Lisa. "Women, science and technology : the genealogy of women writing utopian science fiction." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3058.

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For centuries utopian and science fiction has allowed women to engage with dominant discourses, especially those which have been defined as the “domain” of men. Feminist scholars have often characterized this genealogy as one which begins with the destabilization of Enlightenment ideals of the rational subject in the Romantic Revolution, with the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) in particular. This thesis demonstrates that there has in fact been an enduring history of women’s cognitive and rational attempts to explore key discourses such as science, technology and architecture through Reason, as opposed to rage. This is a genealogy of women writing utopian science fiction that is best illuminated through Darko Suvin’s of the novum. Chapter One reveals how the innovative utopian visions of Margaret Cavendish (1626-1673) proffer a highly rational and feminist critique of seventeenth-century experimental science. Chapter Two demonstrates how Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall (1762) explored the socio-political significance of the monstrous-looking “human” body some fifty years before Shelley’s Frankenstein. Following this, Chapter Three re-reads Frankenstein in light of the early nineteenth century zeitgeist of laissez-faire economics, technological advancement and global imperialism and argues that these were also the concerns of other utopian science fiction works by women, such as Jane Loudon’s The Mummy! (1827). Chapter Four analyses how the function of the novum is integral to L.T. Meade’s (1854-1915) depictions of male/female interaction in the scientific field. Chapter Five considers how important it is to acknowledge the materialist concern with popular science that informs texts such as Joanna Russ’s The Female Man (1975) and Pat Cadigan’s cyberpunk novel Synners (1991). This is the history of how women have used the form of utopian science fiction as a means with which to present a rational female voice. In addition to the historical works by women, it employs a range of utopian and science fiction theory from Suvin and Fredric Jameson to historical and contemporary feminism.
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Uecker, Jeffry Lloyd. "From Promised Lands to Promised Landfill: The Iconography of Oregon's Twentieth-Century Utopian Myth." PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5026.

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The state of Oregon often has been viewed as a utopia. Figures of speech borrowed from the romantic sublime, biblical pilgrimage, economic boosterism, and millenialist fatalism have been used to characterize it. The visual arts also have responded to Oregon's utopian myth. During the nineteenth century, the landscape was a primary focus for utopian art. In the twentieth century, past human achievements, recreation, agriculture, and industry have joined the environment as themes which inspire utopian imagery. The objective of this study is to demonstrate that twentieth-century art that responds to Oregon's utopian myth has given rise to an iconography which both energizes and reflects the development of that myth and which informs an important component of the state's identity. Using as a criteria that which idealizes Oregon as a place, an inventory of utopian art was compiled. It includes over 300 works of visual art, plus a number of artists for whom utopian subjects served as a consistent element. From this information, dominant themes were identified which demonstrate the existence of iconography, or visual symbolism, that expresses Oregon's utopian myth. Through the themes of natural environment, heroic images of Oregon's human past, and interaction between humans and the environment-plus numerous sub-themes-the artistic evidence demonstrates that visual imagery and symbols play an important role in how Oregonians define themselves and their history. It also suggests what form the state's utopian myth, identity' and the decisions made by its people may take in the next century.
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Hann, Rachel Nicole. "Computer-based 3D visualization for theatre research : towards an understanding of unrealized utopian theatre architecture from the 1920s and 1930s." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2010. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.540209.

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Cordellier, Maxime. "Recherche d'autonomie et architecture du commun dans les styles de vie communautaires." Thesis, Normandie, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMC010/document.

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Héritières des années 1970 les communautés intentionnelles ont pour objectif de remettre en cause les pratiques et liens sociaux propres à la société contemporaine. Par l’association du travail et de la vie domestique elles forment un type d’organisation sociale tournée vers le vivre ensemble et le travail du commun. Cette thèse démontre à partir du cadre théorique de la résistance ordinaire, que les communautés intentionnelles mettent en pratique une manière d’être au monde qui leur est spécifique. Par le retour à la terre et le détour par la nature, elles inscrivent leur action dans une temporalité et une spatialité nourries d’une projection utopique puisant ses sources dans les représentations d’un passé mythifié. Celui-ci sert la mise en action dans le présent de ce monde et l’expérimentation d’un monde à faire advenir. Ces communautés développent, des visions et un agir guidés par ce que je propose d’appeler une rétrospection utopique. Ce faisant, elles investissent des espaces publics interstitiels et oppositionnels en juxtaposant des imaginaires et des pratiques qui font correspondre à trois logiques sociales (le mythe, le retour, l’utopie) trois registres d’historicité (conservation, rétrospection, progression). Elles organisent le ralentissement de la machine technobureaucratique et capitaliste et convoquent les racines agraires des sociétés antérieures pour préfigurer l’avènement d’une société nouvelle, agraire et politique
Recipients of the 1970’s legacy, intentional communities aim at reconsidering the practices and social relations specific to contemporary society. Through the association of work and domestic life they form a kind of social organization turned towards «living together » and « working the common ». Using the theoretical framework of common resistance as a basis, this thesis demonstrates that intentional communities put into practice a peculiar manner of being-in-the-world. By way of a return to the land and of a detour via nature, their action is inscribed in a temporality and a spatiality fueled by utopian projection, which draws on representations of a mythologized past. That past serves the present-time actualisation of this world, and the experimentation of a world-to-be-brought-about. These communities develop visions and ways of doing guided by what I suggest we call utopian retrospection. In doing so, they invest intersitial and oppositional public spaces by juxtaposing imaginaries and practices that correlate three social logics (myth, return, utopia) with three registers of historicity (conservation, retrospection, progression). They organise the slowing down of the techno-bureaucratic and capitalistic machine and summon the agrarian roots of earlier societies to prefigure the advent of a new society, both agrarian and political
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Ekberg, Sofia. "Findings through fragmentation." Thesis, Konstfack, Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-6375.

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Findings through fragmentation Architecture is an obvious remnant of our collective past and gives us a fragment of a former life and a different time. This unique relationship between what’s new and old is a very powerful spatial opportunity. If memory is defined as ‘The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information’ then the role of architecture comes to play is the prop for our collective and individual memories where it represents past events and people.  If we look closely at the definition of a fragment without it's context it will be read as ‘incomplete’ and subordinate to the completed it is extracted from. Architectural fragments have a power of resisting such expected unity and can be read into an alternative whole of none. By fragmenting industrial buildings that is going to b demolished, representing a time and a group of people in Lövholmen/Stockholm, I wish to embody memory and recall spaces that will be forever lost.
Rummet mellan det som är och det som har varit Arkitektur representerar vår historia och det kollektiva minnet.  Att minnas definieras som ‘förmågan att lagra erfarenheter och göra det möjligt att känna igen och lära’. Minnen placerar oss i förhållande till tid och rum vilket gör att platser och arkitektur kommer att spela en stor roll som bärare av vår kollektiva historia. Byggnader som bär spår av tid där de har varit grunden i en annan kontext kan utgöra ett unikt möte mellan det rum som existerar och det som har varit.  När vårt medvetna väljer ut och sorterar bland minnen fragmenteras det som vi upplevt och bara vissa delar finns kvar. Fragment kan definieras som en pusselbit som tillhört en helhet och blivit en spillra. Styrkan i arkitektonisk fragment är att de kan läsas på nya sätt efter att det isolerats från en helhet och antingen läsas in i en ny kontext eller ingen. Genom att fragmentera byggnader som representerar en specifik tid och grupp av människor som har använt dom vill jag förkroppsliga dessa rumsliga minnen innan de för alltid går förlorade.
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Founeau, Matthieu. "Esthétiques de l'Utopie : l'architecture inquiétée par l'art contemporain." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019MON30077.

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En 1516, l’humaniste anglais Thomas More écrit l’Utopie et nomme ainsi un genre à part entière qui, loin d’être une notion inédite, va questionner et secouer l’ensemble des champs artistiques et philosophiques. A travers notre recherche, il s’agit d’approcher cet insaisissable « lieu de nulle part » par le prisme d’un travail interdisciplinaire où s’interrogent réciproquement architecture et art contemporain. Il faut dès lors saisir l’utopie dans l’espace et le lieu propre de la contemporanéité et du contemporain qui, comme le souligne Giorgio Agamben est, « celui qui reçoit en plein visage le faisceau de ténèbres qui provient de son temps ». Loin des attentes et des présupposés de l’Histoire et de la chronologie, nous tenterons d’entendre l’utopie au sein d’un maillage où s’interrogent et s’interpellent philosophie, esthétique, littérature, poésie, psychanalyse et, bien évidemment, architecture et arts plastiques. Basé sur le modèle de la carte heuristique, où s’entremêlent les chemins qui ne mènent nulle part, il faut entrevoir cette recherche sous les traits d’une promenade intime, esthétique et poétique. Promenade à la rencontre de motifs privilégiés tels que : le voyage, le naufrage, la porte, le seuil, le labyrinthe, la tour, l’arbre, la pyramide, l’île, le refuge, la grotte, la caverne ou encore le chantier, la ruine, le chez-soi, et cetera. Enfin, il est nécessaire de noter que c’est à partir et à travers les œuvres d’art que cheminera notre propos, renforcé par leurs puissances poïétiques et poétiques intrinsèques qui sont aussi mises en acte au sein même de l’utopie
Aesthetics of Utopia : architecture queried by contemporary art In 1516, the English humanist Thomas More wrote Utopia and thereby designated a full genre which, far from being a new notion, will question and shake the whole artistic and philosophical domains. Through our research, we will approach this elusive «place of nowhere» with an interdisciplinary work where architecture and contemporary art will question each other. Therefore, we must understand Utopia in the proper space and time of contemporaneity and contemporary which is, as Giorgio Agamben stressed, «the one which is slapped in the face by the beams of darknesses that comes from his time». Far from the codes and the logics of History and chronology, we will attempt to understand Utopia within a network where philosophy, aesthetic, literature, poetry, psychoanalysis and of course, architecture and plastic arts challenge and question each others. Based on the model of a mind map, where paths that are going nowhere are running into each others, we must see this research as an intimate, attractive and lyrical promenade. A stroll towards motives such as the journey, the disaster/shipwreck, the door, the threshold, the maze, the tower, the tree, the pyramid, the island, the refuge, or the building site, the ruin, the home et cetera. Finally, it is necessary to note that it is from and through works of art that our statement will progress, strenghtened by their creative and lyrical powers which are also set in motion by utopia
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Abrahamson, Michael. "Browsing for Utopia." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1230663236.

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Jeanroy, Audrey. "Claude Parent, architecture et expérimentation, 1942-1996 : itinéraire, discours et champ d'action d'un architecte créateur en quête de mouvement." Thesis, Tours, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016TOUR2001.

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Consacrer une recherche monographique à un architecte vivant est un exercice d’autant plus ardu que Claude Parent (né en 1923) œuvra à se mettre en scène, autant dans son travail qu’à travers son activité de critique. Le regard historien le plus détaché ne peut être totalement neutre face à des réalisations souvent peu patinées par la mémoire, bien que parfois déjà patrimonialisées. C’est peut-être le moins volontaire des paradoxes que Claude Parent aima à construire autour de sa personne. À travers ses très nombreux écrits, il se construit un personnage de scandale et, pour cela, s’est tôt présenté comme marginalisé par la profession. Il se revendiqua néanmoins « homme de chantier », humble devant la force de l’acte architectural. Cette étude se situe dans le genre consacré de la monographie. Celui-ci est cependant revisité par un croisement avec l’étude des acteurs de la profession d’architecte à l’époque où Claude Parent en débat publiquement, avec l’analyse des structures de maîtrise d’ouvrage et de maîtrise d’œuvre, et avec l’étude des politiques d’urbanisme dans lesquelles l'architecte inscrit ses réalisations autant que ses spéculations théoriques. Cette recherche s’attarde aussi sur la complexité des rapports normatifs que la critique architecturale entretient avec les pratiques projectuelles et constructives. Claude Parent s’étant pensé autant en architecte qu’en homme de médias, sa stature professionnelle et publique composite, ainsi que son regard sur l’époque, non moins complexe, éclairent particulièrement bien les décennies 1950-1990, encore peu étudiées en histoire de l’architecture
To dedicate a monographic research to an alive architect is a difficult exercise, particularly since Claude Parent (born in 1923) himself contributed to his own myth-making, as much in his work as through his activity as a critic. The most detached historian outlook cannot be totally neutral in front of buildings often little skated by memory, although sometimes already considered like « heritage ». It is maybe the least voluntary paradoxe which Claude Parent liked to build around his person. Through his numerous articles, he builds himself a character of scandal and, because of this, was somewhat marginalized by the profession. He claimed to be nevertheless a « man of construction », humble in front of the strength of the architectural act. This study follows the general practice of the monography. It is however revisited through the study of the actors of the architectural profession when Claude Parent debated publicly the subject, with the analysis of the commissioners and architects, and with the study of the urban politics in which the architect places his buildings and his theoretical speculations. This research also questions the complexity of the normative relationships which architectural criticism entertains with design and constructive practices. Claude Parent considers himself like an architect as well as a man of medias. His professional, public and composite stature, as well as his outlook on the period, more complex, shed light on the decades 1950-1990, still little studied in the history of architecture
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Navas, Perrone Maria Gabriela. "Utopía y privatopía en la Vila Olímpica de Barcelona: Los impactos sociales de un barrio de autor." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/401430.

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La Vila Olímpica se asume como la Nova Icària del siglo XX y se constituye como la obra inaugural del afamado "modelo Barcelona". Es construida sobre los restos de una importante zona industrial del Poblenou, con la voluntad de regenerar este suelo ocupado históricamente por usos considerados malsanos. Ello refleja la vocación utópica del urbanismo, empeñado en neutralizar la manifestación de conflictos que contradigan el renacer de la ciudad olímpica, mediante la creación artificial de un barrio in vitro, que active la rentabilidad del suelo y canalice el control burgués de la ciudad hacia la fachada marítima. Este es un caso representativo del urbanismo neoliberal, que ha promovido el reemplazo del barrio por proyectos de urbanización. La consecuencia es un conjunto residencial privatizado que ha sido construido a partir de la segregación y el aislamiento.
The Olympic Village is presumed as the Nova Icària of the twentieth century and is recognized as the introductory work of the renowned "Barcelona model". It was built on the remains of an important industrial area of Poblenou, with the intention of regenerating this land, which has been historically used for activities that are considered as unhealthy. This practice echoes the utopian vocation of urbanism as follows: it neutralizes the conflict manifestation that contradicts the olympic city’s revival, through the artificial creation of an in vitro neighborhood, which stimulates the land value and channels the bourgeois control of the city to the seaboard. This is a representative case of neoliberal urbanism, which promotes the substitution of the neighborhood by urbanization projects. The result is a privatized residential complex that has been built from segregation and isolation.
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1944-, Brumfield William Craft, ed. Reshaping Russian architecture: Western technology, utopian dreams. [Washington, D.C.]: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1990.

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Gambardella, Claudio, Claudia Cennamo, Maria Luisa Germanà, Mohd Fairuz Shahidan, and Hocine Bougdah, eds. Advances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50765-7.

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Kalkin, Adam. The Butler variations: Seven Utopian houses. [Amsterdam]: Nice Nietzsche Press, 2001.

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Kalkin, Adam. The Butler variations: Seven Utopian houses. [Amsterdam]: Nice Nietzsche Press, 2001.

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Utopian England: Community experiments, 1900-1945. New York: E & FN Spon, 2000.

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Utopian adventure: The Corviale void. Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012.

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Italo Calvino's architecture of lightness: The utopian imagination in an age of urban crisis. New York: Routledge, 2011.

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Markus, Thomas A. Visions of perfection: The influence of utopian thought upon architecture from the Middle Ages to the present day. Glasgow: Third Eye Centre, 1985.

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Markus, Thomas A. Visions of perfection: The influence of utopian thought upon architecture from the Middle Agesto the present day. Glasgow: Third Eye Centre, 1985.

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Utopian vistas: The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American conterculture. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.

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Walker, Nathaniel Robert. "Architecture." In The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures, 473–83. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88654-7_37.

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Valença, Márcio Moraes. "Harveyan Utopian Thought and Social Justice: Approaching Public Space." In Architecture and the Social Sciences, 85–96. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53477-0_7.

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Frigerio, Salvatore. "The Holy Place: History of Catholic Liturgical Architecture." In Advances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture, 11–15. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50765-7_2.

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Valenti, Rita, and Emanuela Paternò. "Imagined Spaces in Church Architectural Furnishings: Solomon’s Temple in Small-Scale Architectural Language." In Advances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture, 203–13. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50765-7_17.

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Stojiljković, Danica. "Yugoslav Utopia of Sustainable City—the Synthesis of Living Environment and Social Order." In Advances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture, 305–15. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50765-7_24.

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Casiddu, Niccolò. "Designing the Intangible." In Advances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture, 25–28. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50765-7_4.

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Pignatelli, Giuseppe. "Old and New Settlement Strategies in a Marginal Area of Viceregal Naples: Benedictines and Jesuits in the Vomero Uphill Road." In Advances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture, 335–45. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50765-7_26.

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Jacoby, Alfred. "Sacral Buildings as an Expression of Hope." In Advances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture, 3–10. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50765-7_1.

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De Ridder, Roel. "Beyond Functionalism. How the Everyday and the Utopian Meet in Reused Parish Churches." In Advances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture, 359–68. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50765-7_28.

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Zizi, Mattia, Daniela Cacace, Valentina Corlito, Jafar Rouhi, and Gianfranco De Matteis. "A Preliminary Structural Analysis of Typical Arches of Italian Gothic Churches." In Advances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture, 65–77. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50765-7_8.

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Oğuzhan, Adnan, and Cenk Hamamcıoğlu. "Spatial and Structural Analysis of Futuristic Urban Utopian Thoughts in Climate Change Dystopias." In 4th International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism – Full book proceedings of ICCAUA2020, 20-21 May 2021. Alanya Hamdullah Emin Paşa University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.38027/iccaua2021tr0067n17.

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It is thought that climate change will radically affect societies in the future, leading to radical changes in the structural and spatial mechanisms of cities. Today, most of the World, particularly 10% of the World's population living in settlements below the sea level are expected to be affected by extreme climatic conditions such as sea-level rise, change in ocean currents, destructive weather events and heat waves (IPCC, 2019). As discussed in the literature (see. Hjerpe & Linner, 2009; Foust, 2009), in this study, the most severe effects of climate change are described as a dystopian period. In this direction, the study aims to share and discuss the samples of futurist urban utopia thoughts for the environments such as floating, underwater/sub aqua, underground/subterranean and overhead/aerial (sky, space), which are considered as uninhabitable or difficult to live under normal conditions together with their structural and spatial properties, in order for societies to survive in the dystopia of climate change. In the context of climate change, the futurist urban utopias, which are envisaged for different environments, are analyzed through four variables; technological features, ways of obtaining resources, spatial and urban form conceptions, and their mutual evaluation has been determined as the method to be followed in the study.
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Wilson, Matthew. "The utopian moment: The language of positivism in modern architecture and urbanism." In The 2nd International Multidisciplinary Congress Phi 2016 – Utopia(S) – Worlds and Frontiers of the Imaginary. CRC Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315265322-14.

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Tavoletta, Concetta. "Luigi Cosenza, Bernard Rudofsky and Gio Ponti and the Secret of the Mediterranean Sea." In 4th International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism – Full book proceedings of ICCAUA2020, 20-21 May 2021. Alanya Hamdullah Emin Paşa University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.38027/iccaua2021186n6.

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Landscape, cavity, courtyard, skin, pergola are some of the elements of the Mediterranean abacus that architecture tries to transfigure into a single substance but also as a derivation of a great mother, the Mediterranean Sea. However, we can suppose that all these elements come from an idea that acts as a trait d'union, an intuition that made the domestic space of the Mare Nostrum the place of the myth of living: the innovative idea of horizon summarized as the ability of the gaze to observe outward. Gio Ponti, Bernard Rudofsky and Luigi Cosenza are the architects of the materialization of this idea where the horizon is not only found in the relationship with the landscape but is present within the domestic space. In this space full of symbolism and origin, three houses are a body to be vivisected and rediscovered. Casa per Positano... and other shores, Hotel San Michele in Capri, Casa a Procida become autoptic and utopian spaces from which to steal the secret of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Stojiljković, Danica. "The Concept of Synthesis in Yugoslav Socialist Society – Synthurbanism of Vjenceslav Richter." In SPACE International Conferences April 2021. SPACE Studies Publications, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.51596/cbp2021.gkjs9365.

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Abstract The avant-garde inclinations in the socio-political and cultural milieu of Yugoslav socialism postulated the concept of synthesis as the central theme in architecture and visual arts. This was facilitated by the critique of functionalist and formal concepts and by promoting ideas of organic systems that balance natural and built environments and are unsustainable outside the context of integrity. Vjenceslav Richter was probably the most persistent in developing the concept of synthesis among Yugoslav architects, proposing a global, holistic and systematic approach. In the early 1960s, Richter used experimental models to explore spatial-plastic relations, which led to the development of the concept that provided synthetic solutions for urban functions – synthurbanism. Richter’s theory of the organisation of living synthesis was rooted in the key concepts of socialist society – harmonious relations between individuals and the collective and human as an integrated biological and social being. The premise of this study is that the original ideological agenda of Yugoslav Socialism based on the values of Marxist humanism provided a comprehensive social and philosophical context for the concept of synthesis.This study aims to describe a broader context of synthetic thought in Yugoslav society through the architectural and urbanistic ideas of Vjenceslav Richter. His utopian model is based on the premise that the environment represents a system of intertwined functions and that living space and humans are integrated into interactive processes, which show functional correlativeness in achieving sustainable urban living. Keywords: synthesis, synthurbanism, Vjenceslav Richter, Marxism, self-management socialism
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Isabel Oliver, María. "Resiliency: It Goes Beyond the Hair." In 2018 ACSA International Conference. ACSA Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.intl.2018.11.

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In the January article of The Guardian News ‘How Hurricane Maria forced Puerto Ricans to change their hair’, author Norbert Figueroa reflects on the devastating effects of the category four storm in the US territory. Besides the aftermath caused by floodwaters, massive electric shortage, and structural damages, Figueroa revealed how Hurricane Maria forced adaptations to everyday life, including the way Puerto Ricans styled their hair. Extreme conditions of heat and humidity, exacerbated by the lack of electric power, lead to the acceptance of natural hairdos, to the creation of sidewalk barber shops, and to the formalization of an underground economy where haircuts in the form of currency, were exchanged for power generators. Figueroa’s simple but complex observation is critical in the revelation of creative self-organizing assemblages at the face of concealed realities. If the simple act of hair restructuring convokes taxonomical categorizations, ingenious adaptabilities, spatial re-conceptualizations, and the creation of new underground economies, why isn’t architecture transcending its heteronomous condition to achieve ‘resilient’ solutions? If resilience is defined as ‘the ability of objects to spring back into shape’ after being deformed,’ does it exclude the notion of ‘predictability’? This paper does not bring to the fore the discursivity that the resilient discourse entails, but it is an attempt to question its interpretations and trivial meanings within a ‘utopian’ model that fails to come to terms with the constitution of the physical realm.
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Karabushenko, Pavel, Olga Oskina, Leonid Podvoysky, and Natalia Podvoyskaya. "The geopolitical cosmology of the greater eurasian space." In East – West: Practical Approaches to Countering Terrorism and Preventing Violent Extremism. Dela Press Publishing House, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56199/dpcshss.gvdt8797.

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The geopolitical dimension of the Eurasian space involves the creating process of various architectural models of its world order based on different algorithms of behavior. The most figurative representation of this geopolitical geometry is presented by cosmological models describing not just the alignment of forces in the international scene, but also the motives and purposes of leading players’ behavior and the role of obvious and clear outsiders in this process. These constructions are based on different perceptions and understandings of national interests and values of specific political elites and their leaders, who create a vision of the future by means of this strategic planning. In geopolitics, visions of the future are doctrinal, declarative and embellishing in nature and they are also programmatic concepts of political elites and their leaders striving to express themselves outside their national state. These visions sometimes are mythological in nature, out of synch with reality and resemble utopian social projects. There is more destructive than constructive in such projects. It is crucial to quickly separate the myth (utopia) from reality for modeling geopolitical cosmology, to give a fact-based analysis of current trends, and not to go into the world of endless political fantasies. There are dozens of failed constructions for one successful project. The geopolitical cosmology of the Greater Eurasian Space is no exception here.
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Grzeszczuk-Brende, Hanna. "Expressionist utopia and dystopia (architecture, literature, film)." In The 2nd International Multidisciplinary Congress Phi 2016 – Utopia(S) – Worlds and Frontiers of the Imaginary. CRC Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315265322-38.

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Deotto, Francesco, and Marcela Garcia. "From Rotor to utopia? On Rotor, Fourier and the relation between architecture and utopia." In The 2nd International Multidisciplinary Congress Phi 2016 – Utopia(S) – Worlds and Frontiers of the Imaginary. CRC Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315265322-29.

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Biliński, Grzegorz, and Alicja Duzel-Bilińska. "Utopia and imagination." In Virtual City and Territory. Barcelona: Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.8106.

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The most important aim of the "Back to the Sense of the City" International Conference is to draw attention to the city and the sense of its being, the fact that a city seen as a heterogeneous entity is not only a work of its direct creators: architects, engineers, civil servants and municipal services, but all who "fill" it, primarily its inhabitants. A particular role is attributed to artists. It is the artists’ duty not only to shape it but also creatively criticize and contemplate. Artistic actions understood as the city’s activity and activity in relation to the city have certain qualities of utopian events, manifesting in the unattainability of a goal, idealistic activity base, transience of events and the type of references to it /to the city/. The paper focuses on such interpretative approach to these actions. The meaning of this notion is usually interpreted as a place that does not exist, "... from the Greek outopos (gr. ou - no, topos - a place, non-place, place that does not exist, non-existent) and the eutopia (good place) ". Our statement, built on an idea of an internal dialogue, a dialogue between the main text and the footnotes and quotations, focuses on the changing of the ways of thinking about the city as a work of active art, on the role of an artist, architect, town-planner in this process and their activities seen as special intellectual contribution to the development of this kind of space. It is also a kind of provocation relating to the description of similarities of the artistic and architectural activities in the context of the space of a city.
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Serafin, Aleksander. "Viennese utopia—the expression of revolutionary architectural thought." In The 2nd International Multidisciplinary Congress Phi 2016 – Utopia(S) – Worlds and Frontiers of the Imaginary. CRC Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315265322-24.

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