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Phantom Architecture

DATE: 2018-01-14  SIZE: 209.2 MB   DISKS: 22x 10MB    PAGES: n/a

PUBLISHER: Simon and Schuster                GENRE:

AUTHOR: Philip Wilkinson

FORMAT: EPUB  PROTECTION: DRM  EDITION: n/a

URL: https://is.gd/B7h8Ga

LANGUAGE: English   ISBN: 9781471166426

: A skyscraper one mile high, a dome covering most of downtown Manhattan, a  :
: triumphal arch in the form of an elephant: some of the most exciting       :
: buildings in the history of architecture are the ones that never got built :
: These are the projects in which architects took materials to the limits,   :
: explored challenging new ideas, defied conventions, and pointed the way    :
: towards the future. Some of them are architectural masterpieces, some      :
: simply delightful flights of fancy. It was not usually poor design that    :
: stymied them - politics, inadequate funding, or a client who chose a 'safe :
: option rather than a daring vision were all things that could stop a       :
: project leaving the drawing board. These unbuilt buildings include the     :
: grand projects that acted as architectural calling cards, experimental     :
: designs that stretch technology, visions for the future of the city, and   :
: articles of architectural faith. Structures likeBuckminster Fuller's dome  :
: over New York or Frank Lloyd Wright's mile-high tower can seem impossibly  :
: daring. But they also point to buildings that came decades later, to the   :
: Eden Project and the Shard. Some of those unbuilt wonders are buildings of :
: great beauty and individual form like Etienne-Louis Boullee's enormous     :
: spherical monument to Isaac Newton; some, such as the city plans of Le     :
: Corbusier, seem to want to teach us how to live; some, like El Lissitsky's :
: 'horizontal skyscrapers' and Gaudi's curvaceous New York hotel, turn       :
: architectural convention upside-down; some, such as Archigram's Walking    :
: City and Plug-in City, are bizarre and inspiring by turns. All are capture :
: in this magnificently illustrated book.                                    :

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