Impossible Worlds - The Architecture of Perfection

Book Cover
"Ecstacity", Nigel Coates & Doug Branson, 2000

I just received the new book from August|Birkhäuser with an introduction by Alex Stetter and I am very, very pleased to tell you..... my ongoing dream project, the "Kolonihaven" architecture park, was included in the Idealism section.

From the Tower of Babel to the film set of The Matrix, visionary architectural projects have exerted a powerful hold over the imagination. Many of the apparently impossible ideas are eventually built, either in the form of grand architectural statements, or at the personal scale of houses, huts and even simple allotments.
Using detailed studies of utopian plans as well as built realities, this book argues that imagining the impossible can have great practical benefits for architecture.
From the Editors.

Other projects featured are:
"Ecstacity" by Nigel Coates & Doug Branson;
"Executing God" film set by Zaha Hadid;
"Dome over New York" by Buckminster Fuller;
"Nobson Newtown" by Paul Noble;
"Freedom Ship" ;
"Vertical Golf Course" by Harty and Harty;
"AVL-Ville by Atelier van Lieshout";
"Blur" by Diller and Scofidio;
plus
Disney’s "Celebration", Hitler’s "Prora", the "Island of New Utopia".

The book is edited by Stephen Coates and Alex Stetter, with contributions from Hilary French, Sean Griffiths, Joe Kerr, Rick Poynor, Andy Martin, Maureen Thomas and Francois Penz.

"Freedom Ship"

August Media
Birkhäuser Verlag Basel

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