| Description |
230 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Summary |
This book examines how the world's great artists envisioned the future. A panoramic exploration of works of the creative imagination throughout history, the book introduces you to a wide range of far-reaching, original designs that, unbuilt, survived purely as artistic vision. The significant international content, from Prehistory through Medieval, Renaissance,and Modern periods: includes full-page illustrations of baroque stage sets, designs for the film Metropolis and urban cityscapes by M.C.Escher, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hugh Ferriss, and much more. A timeline integrates architectural events alongside their historical and cultural counterparts. The architectural imagery is represented by several media and stylistic techniques; sketches, drawings, paintings, models, andcomputer-generated images |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography |
| Subject |
Futurism (Architecture)
|
|
Visionary architecture.
|
|
Architecture -- History.
|
| LC no. |
00500190 |
| ISBN |
0070089949 : |
|
