Irene Cheng

The Shape of Utopia

The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The Shape of Utopia documents a pivotal moment in American history when ordinary people ardently believed in the potential to reshape society. Highlighting the inherent political capacity of architecture, Irene Cheng showcases how visionary utopian planners in the mid-nineteenth century used their blueprints as persuasive visual rhetoric that could mobilize others to share in their aspirations for a better world"--

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Produktdetails

• Buell Center Books in the History and Theory of American Architecture
• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 177mm x 255mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 744g
• ISBN-13: 9781517907464
• ISBN-10: 1517907462
• Artikelnr.: 68101963

Autorenporträt

Irene Cheng is associate professor of architecture at the California College of the Arts.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: The Visual Rhetoric of Reform
1. Antinomies of American Utopia: Thomas Jefferson’s Grids and Octagons
2. The Visual Rhetoric of Equality: The Land Reformers’ Grid
3. Cultivating the Liberal Self: Orson Fowler’s Octagon House
4. Picturing Sociality without Socialism: The Kansas Vegetarian Octagon
Colony
5. Toward More Transparent Representation: The Hexagonal “Anarchist” City
of Josiah Warren
6. Models, Machines, and Manifestations: The Spiritualists’ Circular
Utopias
Epilogue: Whither Geometric Utopianism
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index