Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development

Mass.: MIT Press, Cambridge, 1979. 1st MIT Press pbk. ed. xi, 184 pages: illustrations; 19 cm A good(+) copy; binding a wee bit shaken fragile binding, edgewear and crease to spine. Paperback. ISBN: 0262700204

Translation by Barbara Luigia La Penta of Progetto e utopia. "Written from a neo-Marxist point of view by a prominent Italian architectural historian, Architecture and Utopia leads the reader beyond architectural form into a broader understanding of the relation of architecture to society and architects to the workforce and the marketplace. It discusses the Garden Cities movement and the suburban developments it generated, the German-Russian architectural experiments of the 1920s, the place of the avant-garde in the plastic arts, the uses and pitfalls of semiological approaches to architecture, and assesses the prospects of socialist alternatives." Illustrations range from engravings to photography to painting, revealing the overlapping influences of art and social movements on public space. // Architecture and society, cities and towns--planning, form, urban planning