Latent Utopias: Experiments with Contemporary Architecture
- Zaha Hadid & Patrik Schumacher
- 2003
- Princeton Architectural Press / Springer Verlag
- USA
- ISBN 10: 3211838651
- ISBN 13: 9783211838655
- Hardcover
- 302 pages
- English, German
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Latent Utopias
Every age has and needs its utopias. The grand social drafts of the past century, their demands and impacts in terms of real history, however, have aroused suspicions of the utopia being a naive and perilous hubris. And yet the radical concepts of Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wrights initially displayed an anticipative force and rationality that with almost fifty years of success worldwide can hardly be seen as a mistake.
Latent Utopias features experimental architectural projects both by established and up-and-coming architects. The projects are characterised by radical abstraction and strangeness. But what is the hidden meaning of these experiments? How does this Neo-Avantgarde relate itself to the historical Avantgarde, and what is its stance on the idea of progress? Contrary to first appearances is there still utopian potential?
