READING ARCHITECTURAL UTOPIA(NISM)S: A PROPOSAL


Güneri Söğüt G. D.

METU JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, cilt.36, sa.1, ss.85-105, 2019 (AHCI) identifier identifier

Özet

The writings of urban theorists who have studied utopias that propose a counter-space as the basis for a counter-society go back to very early periods in history. However, works dwelling on the influence of such theoretical constructs on actual space, in forms of architectural outputs per se, are comparably new. Since the revival of the very first theoretical work on the relationship between utopia and architecture, barely a century has passed. During this period, such theory has developed and expanded rapidly. However, due to the lack of any structure to provide a comparable base, the theory has not indicated a consistently constructed developmental growth, yielding a great accumulation of unintegrated knowledge, impossible to be comprehended in totality.