ABSTRACT
The great Expressionistic though may be considered as the one responsible for a contemporary appearance of architectural utopia. Originally, Expressionism, like any artistic movement, set the goal to transfer a social content in the form of visual values. A strong underlying political purpose was present in many aspects. On one hand, the beginning of the trend is marked by a search for a new style indirectly referring to the fanciness and the tradition of Gothic, but on the other hand, the leftist movement adapts it. As primary avant-garde of the Eastern Europe was engaged in the creation of revolutionary utopianism (Margolin 1997: 22), also the German-Austrian trend gained subversive character. The belief in creating a better world based on the interaction between artistic and social
1 INTRODUCTION
The standard comprehension of the term “utopia” evokes the vision of the ideal solution that is unattainable. The question of this concept may gain slightly different meanings in various domains. Utopia is inherently transgressive because its essence is based on crossing disciplinary and conceptual boundaries, together with ordering and separating existing modes of thoughts (Howells 2015: 25). However, Nathaniel Coleman maintains that utopia always requires an architectural frame because the problems of evolving form refers to the way people appropriate space (Coleman 2011: 2). Moreover, the issue of utopia can be seen in the context of the entire city. The evidence may be set in Viennese projects by Camillo Sitte and Otto Wagner (Whyte 2004: 286).
