Michael Chyutin

Architecture and Utopia

The Israeli Experiment

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

There are more than 450 Moshavim settlements and about 270 kibbutzim in Israel. While there is a range of communal and cooperative kibbutz movements, all with slight ideological differences, they are all collective rural communities, based on an ideal to create a social utopian settlement. Placing the kibbutz within the wider context of utopian social ideals and how they have historically been physically and architecturally constructed, this book discusses the form of the 'ideal settlement' as an integral part and means for realizing a utopian doctrine. It presents an analysis of physical planning in the kibbutz through the past eight decades and how changes in ideology are reflected in changes in layout and aesthetics. In doing so, this book shows how a utopian settlement organization behaves over time, from their first appearance in 1920 on, to an examination of the current spatial layouts and the directions of their expected future development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9780754648314
• ISBN-10: 0754648311
• Artikelnr.: 35732428

Autorenporträt

Michael and Bracha Chyutin are leading Israeli architects, whose firm has won many competitions and awards for public buildings designs. Michael Chyutin has been the editor of the Israeli Architectural Association Journal and also published several books and articles on modern and ancient architecture and on Biblical studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Social Utopia and the ideal settlement
Utopian settlements in Israel
The kibbutz: a communal society
The cooperative settlement: (moshav shitufi): a commune of families
The workers' settlement (moshav ovdim): a cooperative of families
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.