Urban Fiction
Edition Axel Menges (Verlag)
978-3-930698-26-4 (ISBN)
For Günther Feuerstein, all these cities and towns, though only fictitious, have long since been built, and he strolls through them together with the architects, planners, writers, and philosophers, just as Thomas More, Antonio Filarete, William Morris, and many others once led us through their cities. Though the routes through various periods and continents are arbitrary, the tour of 350 cities, many of them made visible in over 500 illustrations, and overflights of 800 additional dream cities result in a kind of lexicon of the ideal city, which admittedly does not claim to be complete.
Günther Feuerstein, who was a professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Linz and also a lecturer at the Akademie der bildenden Künste and at the Technische Universität in Vienna until his retirement, must be considered the catalyst in the Viennese post-war architectural scene, as almost all architectural avant-garde groups of the town have come from his circle. As an author, Feuerstein addresses areas where art history and sociology intersect with architecture. Edition Axel Menges has published Androgynos - Das Mann-Weibliche in Kunst und Architektur / The Male-Female in Art and Architecture and Biomorphic Architecture - Menschen und Tiergestalten in der Architektur / Human and Animal Forms in Architecture. Feuerstein is one of the earliest critics of functionalism and pleads for an "expanded architecture".
Dissatisfied with the world we live in, we have been longing since
time immemorial for two opposing topoi: the peaceful garden –
a carefree paradise – and the New City – a harmonious community.
Thomas More described this New City: it is Utopia, no-place, or
Eu-topia, the fortunate place, and it is located on an island. But
long before More philosophers, saints, artists, and travelers described
the ideal city. And after him hundreds of architects, writers,
reformers, and dreamers sought to find Utopia and not only described
but also depicted the fortunate cities – which were often
terrible as well – and occasionally tried to turn them into a reality.
Take Palmanova, Freudenstadt, Guise, Brasilia, Lingang. Yet these
cities, too, then as now, have turned out to be imperfect, deeply
rooted in their own period.
For Günther Feuerstein, all these cities and towns, though only
fictitious, have long since been built, and he strolls through them
together with the architects, planners, writers, and philosophers,
just as Thomas More, Antonio Filarete, William Morris, and many
others once led us through their cities.
Though the routes through various periods and continents are
arbitrary, the tour of 350 cities, many of them made visible in over
500 illustrations, and overflights of 800 additional dream cities result
in a kind of lexicon of the ideal city, which admittedly does not
claim to be complete.
Günther Feuerstein, who was a professor at the Hochschule für
Gestaltung in Linz and also a lecturer at the Akademie der bildenden
Künste and at the Technische Universität in Vienna until his retirement,
must be considered the catalyst in the Viennese post-war
architectural scene, as almost all architectural avant-garde groups
of the town have come from his circle. As an author, Feuerstein
addresses areas where art history and sociology intersect with architecture.
Edition Axel Menges has published Androgynos – Das
Mann-Weibliche in Kunst und Architektur / The Male-Female in Art
and Architecture and Biomorphic Architecture – Menschen und
Tiergestalten in der Architektur / Human and Animal Forms in Architecture.
Feuerstein is one of the earliest critics of functionalism and
pleads for an 'expanded architecture'.
Günther Feuerstein, who was a professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Linz and also a lecturer at the Akademie der bildenden Künste and at the Technische Universität in Vienna, must be considered the catalyst in the Viennese post-war architectural scene, as almost all architectural avantgarde groups of the town have come from his circle. As an author, Feuerstein addresses areas where art history and sociology intersect with architecture. Feuerstein is one of the earliest critics of functionalism and pleads for an "expanded architecture".
1;contents;5
2;Introduction;7
3;1. Myths and legends;11
4;2. Antiquity;16
5;3. The Middle Ages, c. 50-1300;20
6;4. Renaissance, c. 1300-1650;27
6.1;4.1. Italy;27
6.2;4.2. England;46
6.3;4.3. Germany;53
6.4;4.4. France, Netherlands;63
7;5. Baroque, Rococo, c. 1630-1760;69
7.1;5.1. France, Spain;69
7.2;5.2. England, America;83
7.3;5.3. Germany, Austria, Netherlands;89
7.4;5.4. Italy;95
8;6. Enlightenment, Classicism, c. 1750-1850;103
8.1;6.1. France;103
8.2;6.2. England, Italy;113
9;7. Early socialists, philanthropists, c. 1780-1860;118
9.1;7.1. America, England;118
9.2;7.2. France, Russia, Germany;133
10;8. Dreamers, travelers, realists, c. 1850-1920;154
10.1;8.1. America, England;154
10.2;8.2. France, Italy, Germany, Austria;173
11;9. Art, expression, c. 1900-30;181
11.1;9.1. Germany. Switzerland. Austria;181
11.2;9.2. Russia;194
12;10. Innovators, visionaries, c. 1890-1940;197
12.1;10.1. Europe;197
12.2;10.2. America;214
13;11. Policy, violence, c. 1870-1945;220
13.1;11.1. Germany, Austria;220
13.2;11.2. England, Israel;229
13.3;11.3. Czechoslovakia, Russia;233
13.4;11.4. Italy, Germany;240
14;12. Naïve worlds, c. 1880- ;245
14.1;12.1. A private cosmos;245
14.2;12.2. The worlds of chiIdren;248
15;13. A new era, after 1945;250
15.1;13.1. Japan. China;250
15.2;13.2. England;266
15.3;13.3. France, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain;271
15.4;13.4. Germany, Switzerland;291
15.5;17. Italy, Greece;304
15.6;13.6. America, Africa, Asia;308
15.7;13.7. Russia;341
15.8;13.8. Austria;344
15.9;13.9 Writers, filmmakers, artists;372
15.10;13.10. Virtual reality. Computer city;384
15.11;13.11. Spirituality;390
16;Bibliography;399
17;Index of names;409
18;Photo credits;413
2. Antiquity (p. 16)
Plato (428/427-348/347 BC). The Republic (Politeia, c. 400 BC)
Plato at first explains the idea of the city, of society, to us. For one thing, in The Republic we are not moving through streets and squares, past splendid, ornate houses and temples. The form of what Plato considers the best state is architecturally invisible, it is a building of human virtues. The foremost of these is justice, which will bring well-being to the politei - the citizen. The state also needs to exist as an idea.
And Plato teaches us the manifold nature of Eros in society: a thoughtful love for beauty, the urge for truth and knowledge, the passion of the senses. Human beings must emulate the fundamental virtues that correspond to the three parts of the psyche: The attribute of the rational part is the striving for knowledge, the virtue of wisdom, the attribute of the will to self-assertion is bravery, manliness, and that of the capacity for desire is presence of mind and justice. To correspond to the three parts of the psyche there are three estates: craftsmen, farmers, warriors, or, seen from a different perspective, the teaching profession, agriculture, and the military profession. Another trinity is based on the tripartite nature of the function of the psyche to which the estates and the parts of the bodies are assigned: Spirit - head - ruler, courage - breast - guardian, desire - belly - worker. And Plato offers us yet another synopsis: Learning - truth - knowledge - philosophy. Wanting - power - fame - victory. Love - desire - enjoyment - public spirit. The wellsprings of all human evils are the craving for money and possessions, and the struggle for women. In principle authority must not be abolished - but we ask ourselves who is to be the ruler. Plato gives us the answer: "If philosophers do not become kings in the states, or those who are now called kings and rulers do not become true and genuine philosophers, and if state power and philosophy are not one and the same, then there will be no end to evils for the states and probably also for the human race, and the state, too, will probably fail to thrive and see the light of day."
Although Plato's state primarily exists as an idea, the city-state takes a concrete shape, though only as a utopia, and Plato guides us through a perfectly planned city. We are on the island of Crete, amazed that the city has no defense wall. Yet this is understandable: It is a city of peace. Yet in principle Plato is not opposed to the building of walls: "If people absolutely have to have a wall, the construction of private housing may, from the outset, be designed in such a way that the entire city forms a single ring of wall in which all the residential buildings have the same design and stand on the same line, thus providing good protection in the direction of the streets, on the one hand, when the entire city looks like a single building, the view is very lovely, and also this makes it easier to guard the city and thus gives each individual and the community as a whole considerably more security."
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.10.2008 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 233 x 285 mm |
| Gewicht | 2175 g |
| Einbandart | gebunden |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| Schlagworte | Architekturvisionen • Idealstädte • Städtebau • Utopie • Utopien |
| ISBN-10 | 3-930698-26-9 / 3930698269 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-930698-26-4 / 9783930698264 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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