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Unbuilt - Radical visions of a future that never arrived (Hardcover)
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Unbuilt - Radical visions of a future that never arrived (Hardcover)
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Unbuilt tells the stories of the plans, drawings and proposals that
emerged during the 20th century in an unparalleled era of optimism
in architecture.Many of these grand projects stayed on the drawing
board, some were flights of fancy that couldn't be built, and in
other cases test structures or parts of buildings did emerge in the
real world. The book features the work of Buckminster Fuller,
Geoffrey Bawa, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Archigram, as
well as contemporary architects such as Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid,
Will Alsop and Rem Koolhaas.Richly illustrated with photographs,
drawings, maps, collages and models from all over the world, it
covers everything from Buckminster Fuller's plan for a 'Domed city'
in Manhattan to Le Corbusier's utopian dream of skyscraper living
in central Paris, from a proposed network of motorways ploughing
through central London to a crazy-looking scheme for 'rolling
pavements' in post-war Berlin. This is an important book, not just
for the rich stories of what might have been in our built world,
but also to give understanding to the motivations and dreams of
architects, sometimes to build a better world, but sometimes to
pander to egos. It includes plans that pushed the boundaries - from
plug-in cities, moving cities, space cities, domes and floating
cities to Maglev, teleportation and rockets. Many ideas were just
ahead of their time, and some, thankfully, we were always better
without.
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