Unbuilt (eBook)

Radical visions of a future that never arrived

Christopher Beanland (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
208 Seiten
Batsford (Verlag)
978-1-84994-745-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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. 

Autor

Christopher Beanland is a journalist and author who specialises in architecture and travel writing. He is the author of Concrete Concept: Brutalist buildings around the world (5k sold) and Lido (Batsford, publishing Spring 2020). He writes regularly for The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph, Mr Porter, British Airways and EasyJet. A great communicator, he is  happy to appear at events/talks and contact his 2.5k Twitter followers, and 1.2k Instagram followers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.9.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 100 photographs
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: abandoned • Alison and Peter Smithson • Arata Isozaki • Archigram • Architectural Association • Architecture • Archizoom • Bauhaus • Berlin • Birmingham • Brasilia • Buckminster Fuller • Cape Town • Cedric Price • City • Civilia • Continuous Movement • Distopia • Frank Lloyd Wright • Fun Palace • Futurism • Futuristic • Geoffrey Bawa • Glasgow • Herbert Bayer • Ian Nairn • Jonathan Glancey • Jonathan Meades • Kenzo Tange • Le Corbusier • Leeds • LOMEX • London • Lost Cities • Louis Kahn • Metabolism • Mid-Century • Motopia • New Towns • New York • Norman Foster • No Stop City • Oscar Niemeyer • owen hatherley • Palace of the Soviets • Paris • Pedways • Philadelphia • Pittsburgh • Plans • Plug-in City • Post-War • Projects • Rem Koolhaas • Ringways • Rolling Pavements • San Francisco • Singapore • Skycycle • Skyscraper • Superstudio • Supertall • Tokyo • Transport Policy • Twentieth century • Urban • Utopia • Walking City • Will Alsop • Yona Friedman • Zaha Hadid
• ISBN-10: 1-84994-745-7 / 1849947457
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84994-745-9 / 9781849947459