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Visionary architecture : blueprints of the modern imagination / Neil Spiller.

By: Publication details: London : Thames & Hudson, 2006.Description: 271 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780500286555 (pbk.) :
  • 0500286558 (pbk.) :
  • 0500342261
  • 9780500342268
Other title:
  • Blueprints of the modern imagination
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • NA680 .S75 2006
Contents:
Arcadia, alchemy, antiquity and machines / Nat Chard -- Absurd speeding objects and the revolutionary cabaret of science and dreams / Diller + Scofidio -- The politics and cybernetics of freedom 1950s and 1960s / NOX/Lars Spuybroek -- Iconography goes POP 1950s / Asymptote -- The second poverty of heroic structures and Arcadian networks 1960s and 1970s / C.J. Lim -- A gizmology of visionary housing a case study / Wes Jones -- Transcripts for a new détournement 1970s, 1980s and 1990s / Milenko Ivanovic -- Walking in a parkland of ecstasy, delirium and disjuncture 1980s / Morphosis -- War and relativity in the age of memorial mechanics 1980s / Felix Robbins -- The poetry of small things 1980s and 1990s / John Puttick -- Soft machines and virtual objects 1990s and beyond / Neil Spiller.
Holdings
Item type Current library Home library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection NA 680 .S75 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) email Tala Vaziri...MJ 9/3/2014 Available 5115733

Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-269).

Arcadia, alchemy, antiquity and machines / Nat Chard -- Absurd speeding objects and the revolutionary cabaret of science and dreams / Diller + Scofidio -- The politics and cybernetics of freedom 1950s and 1960s / NOX/Lars Spuybroek -- Iconography goes POP 1950s / Asymptote -- The second poverty of heroic structures and Arcadian networks 1960s and 1970s / C.J. Lim -- A gizmology of visionary housing a case study / Wes Jones -- Transcripts for a new détournement 1970s, 1980s and 1990s / Milenko Ivanovic -- Walking in a parkland of ecstasy, delirium and disjuncture 1980s / Morphosis -- War and relativity in the age of memorial mechanics 1980s / Felix Robbins -- The poetry of small things 1980s and 1990s / John Puttick -- Soft machines and virtual objects 1990s and beyond / Neil Spiller.

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