When I finally About this site (http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/695/) stumbled, I was wondering what "utopia" means in our age. We are moving away from the last great architectural and Stadtutopieära of the last century, in which the credo is mainly consisted of a just, balanced, orderly and healthy environment, social inequality and other economic failures prevented. Friedman, Bakema, Tafuri and your kind are still considered visionaries.
Utopia represents a wish condition of the aspects dealt with, which seem to be unsolvable in the corresponding reality. If you look, however, the modern Western architecture and urban utopias on, you'll immediately notice that between reality and wishful state no longer exists great difference. Not least because the development of new technologies is so blazing fast that a utopia can not be a long time or can. The great social danger of the West is of course Global Warming and the "ignore sustainability." Our utopias exist, we build them in the form of prototypes. A pleonastic? So we build "green and sustainable 'skyscrapers that are affordable for a limited target group or in the Mongolian desert Architektenzoo whose exact purpose is not clear to me, and I find neither social nor environmental sustainability can read. Clearly, these formulations are
exaggerated and many will tell me that our short-term utopias have large effects and that our biggest problem is actually the climate.
my opinion, was the process of urban and architectural utopias in the past is of great importance for the development of architecture, one has by the limits of the design can make fullest ever. Today's utopias or better prototypes consist of the latest technology and most stunning architecture, but I wonder what value it in the "normal" contemporary architecture and flows back into the present society? Solve our utopias only Problem at a time?
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