ABSTRACT

Because my main concern in this book may appear to be about a particular type of utopia, expressible at least in architectural terms as ‘humane modernism’, its title, Utopias and Architecture, may be deceptive. If humane modernism is a reasonable category of architectural elaboration, which I think it is, it denotes a reaction to the most reductive aspects of modern (twentieth-century) architecture, which critic and historian Kenneth Frampton calls ‘orthodox modern’.