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Utopia // imagined perfect places

September 13, 2015 by bg-martin

Utopias are ‘invisible cities’, imagined perfect places, idealized states of possibility, envisioned in the minds of designers and writers like ltalo Calvino. The term was first used as the name of an imaginary island by Sir Thomas More in his book published in 1516. In More’s dream, Utopian islanders were governed by a perfect political and social system – a system later given a new and anatomical twist in George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1949).

Categories: Architecture, Urbanism • Tags: Archigram, Architecture, Ebenezer Howard, Le Corbusier, Paolo Soleri, utopia

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At the Verge of #Utopia // Defying Boundaries

April 17, 2015 by bg-martin

At the Verge of #Utopia // Defying Boundaries In 1961 Henri Lefebvre published a short essay defending the concept of what he called “experimental utopia,” which he defined as “imaginary variations on themes and exigencies defined by the real understood in the broadest sense: by the problems posed by reality and by the virtualities held within it.” It was the exploration of human possibilities, with the help of the image and the imagination, accompanied by a ceaseless criticism and a […]

Categories: V for Visionary • Tags: Archigram, architecture, Archizoom, Bernard Tschumi, Constant Nieuwnhuys, Daniel Libeskind, Eilfried Huth, Günther Domenig, Guy Debord, Henri Lefebvre, Morphosis, Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, utopia, V for Visionary, Yona Friedman

At the Verge of #Utopia // Limits and Constraints of the Architectural Ideal

April 17, 2015 by bg-martin

At the Verge of Utopia Limits and Constraints of the Architectural Ideal Cities are a definite manifestation of human civilization. For millennia, architects have attempted to rationalize them into ‘well-functioning’ and inhabitable places for their people. Much has been questioned about utopia. The utopian thinking, architectural utopias, and so on, but what does it all mean? This vision of utopia, a Greek double entendre meaning both “good place” and “no place”—the perfect location that does not exist, except perhaps in […]

Categories: V for Visionary • Tags: architecture, Georges Emmerich, Lebbeus Woods, utopia, V for Visionary

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The Lover’s Tree House | Ifigeneia Liangi

October 8, 2012 by bg-martin

The Lover’s Tree House by Ifigeneia Liangi | 2012 The apartments of the area of the area of Kipseli are particularly small and private space is limited. It is common for big families to use the living room as an extra bedroom, which causes difficulty in having sex. The lover’s tree house is a response to limited private space. It is designed so that people would have to hold hands in order to climb on it. …

Categories: Archilibs, Digital, drawings • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, art, design, digital, drawing, drawings, Ifigeneia Liangi, mix-media, perspective, The Bartlett, utopia