Ville Contemporaine, the Glossary
The Ville contemporaine (Contemporary City) was an unrealized utopian planned community intended to house three million inhabitants designed by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1922.[1]
Table of Contents
7 relations: EPCOT (concept), Le Corbusier, Planned community, Robert Hughes (critic), The Shock of the New, Utopia, Ville Radieuse.
- Architecture related to utopias
- Le Corbusier
- Proposed skyscrapers
- Unbuilt buildings and structures
EPCOT (concept)
The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, shortened to EPCOT or E.P.C.O.T., was an unfinished concept for a planned community, intended to sit on a swath of undeveloped land near Orlando, Florida.
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Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.
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A planned community, planned city, planned town, or planned settlement is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land.
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Robert Hughes (critic)
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes AO (28 July 19386 August 2012) was an Australian-born art critic, writer, and producer of television documentaries.
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The Shock of the New
The Shock of the New is an eight-part documentary television series about the development of modern art written and presented in 1980 by Australian art critic Robert Hughes for the BBC, in association with Time-Life Films.
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Utopia
A utopia typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members.
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Ville Radieuse
Ville radieuse was an unrealised urban design project designed by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1930. Ville Contemporaine and Ville Radieuse are le Corbusier.
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See also
- Architecture of Yugoslavia
- Arcology
- Arcosanti
- Aurora Colony
- Bolton Hall (California)
- Broadacre City
- Celebration, Florida
- Constructivist architecture
- Domed city
- Drop City
- Earthship
- Epcot
- Garden city movement
- Geodesic dome
- Hermit's Cave
- Integral Urban House
- Jacob Woodruff House
- La Scarzuola
- List of garden cities
- Narkomfin building
- Nowa Huta
- Octagon City, Kansas
- Octagon house
- Phalanstère
- Plan Voisin
- Ron Herron
- Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans
- Sotsgorod: Cities for Utopia
- Telosa
- Temples of Humankind
- The Ark (Prince Edward Island)
- Tree house
- Tresigallo
- Utopian architecture
- Ville Contemporaine
- Zlín
Le Corbusier
- Athens Charter
- Butterfly roof
- Dom-Ino House
- Firminy Vert
- Fondation Le Corbusier
- L'Esprit Nouveau
- Le Corbusier
- Le Corbusier buildings
- Le Corbusier in the USSR
- Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture
- Le Corbusier's Furniture
- Les Dés Sont Jetés
- Manmohan Nath Sharma
- Modulor
- Promenade architecturale
- Sector-17, Chandigarh
- Sukhna Interpretation Centre
- Sukhna Lake
- Toward an Architecture
- Ville Contemporaine
- Ville Radieuse
- Achilleion, Colombo
- Akhmat Tower
- Al Noor Tower
- Al Rajhi Bank Tower
- Azerbaijan Tower
- BDNI Center
- Belgrade Waterfront
- Doha Tower and Convention Center
- Dream Tower
- Dubai Towers Istanbul
- Durban Iconic Tower
- Hermitage Plaza
- Hope City
- Jordan Gate
- Liberation Tower (Purbachal, Dhaka)
- Mukaab
- Murjan Tower
- Oblisco Capitale
- Ocean 1 Tower
- PVN Tower
- Petronia City
- Rise Tower
- Sabeco World Trade Center
- Sigma Towers
- Sky Fort
- Square Capital Tower
- Thai Boon Roong Twin Tower World Trade Center
- The One (Colombo)
- Tour Financial Hub Center
- Tower M
- Tradewinds Square Tower
- Ville Contemporaine
Unbuilt buildings and structures
- Adolf Loos's Dvořák mausoleum
- Atlantropa
- Expressway S47 (Poland)
- Führermuseum
- List of visionary tall buildings and structures
- Museum of Modern Art in Caracas
- New Royal Opera House in Berlin
- Overwhelmingly Large Telescope
- Plan for Greater Baghdad
- Project of Filippo Juvarra for the Royal Palace of Madrid
- Sky City (Changsha)
- Ville Contemporaine
- Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_Contemporaine
Also known as Contemporary City for Three Million Inhabitants, Towers in a park.