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Since the dawn of time, there have been architects who have yearned to reshape the world in which we live. This is a book about actual and visionary projects proposed by creative thinkers, iconoclasts, high-tech enthusiasts, environmentalists, media freaks, and other architectural visionaries. In short, it is a book about those who have endeavored to preserve creativity in their profession and whose innovative ideas have led, in practical terms, to the development of new architectural concepts, new ways of living and working, and new aesthetic forms.
Christian W. Thomsen's fascinating discourse spans the history of building, from Babylon with its infamous tower, the symbol for the wicked city of antiquity - to the skyscraper and beyond. He investigates the Renaissance concept of the ideal city, the work of Piranesi, the revolutionary architecture of France and Russia, the exotic structures of the nineteenth century, and crystal palaces, watchtowers, lighthouses, and ivory towers. The journey continues by way of bizarre and grotesque architecture to contemporary visionary architecture, science-fiction and futuristic architecture, and the innovative realizations of the deconstructivists, finally concluding with media and virtual architectures.
We live in an age in which science-fiction is more and more becoming "science fact." This book seeks to define a framework for such developments.
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Christian W. Thomsen is Professor of English Literature at the University of Siegen, Germany.
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192pp, 280 extremely interesting illustrations, 154 in colour, bibliog. Cloth 31x25. Fine. Fascinating book containing some bizarre and grotesque architecture. Seller Inventory # 15412
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30.0 x 22.0cms 192 b/w & colour illusts very good hardback & dustwrapper The chapters are: from the whore of Babylon to the Neew Jerusalem to the ideal citiesw of the Renaissance; the myth of the tower from Babylon to the Tour de I''Infini: Giovanni Battista Piranesi & his successors; revolutionatry architecture in France & Russia; the architecture of dreams: crystalline architecture & organic sculpture; watchtowers lighthouses ivory towers; bizarre & grotesque architetcure; contemporary visionary architects. (Scolari Leon Krier Hans Hollein Haus-Rucker-Co Coop immelblau Raimund Abraham Lebbeus Woods Peter Cook & Archigram); deconstructive designs & built architectural visions(Tschumi Hadid Himmelblau Domenig Libeskind) science fiction & aspects of future architecture; architeture 2000 media architecture & virtual architects. Seller Inventory # 20850548
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