Super Quick Visual History of Utopiatic Dwellings

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Interrogative Design Group

Krzysztof Wodiczko is known for his massive projections, but for some reason the MIT Professor of Architecture left me thinking about the tension of Valhalla inducing structures throughout history, and ones that just resonate as such without much merit. So this week I went on a search for pictures of these buildings, there is not much organization so hopefully the mass sways the mind.

R. Buckminster Fuller Geodesic Dome

The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563

New Harmony by F. Bate (View of a Community, as proposed by Robert Owen), 1838

Cenotaph, Etienne-Louis Boullée

Contemporary Mandan Earth Lodge

King Camp Gillette, 1894 (Founder of Gillette Razor Blade Company)

Druzhba Holiday Center Hall” (Yalta, Ukraine, 1984) Photo © Frederic Chaubin

Wedding Palace (Tbilisi, Georgia, 1985) Photo © Frederic Chaubin

The second Christmas in Viljavakka, Dominican Republic in 1932. (Finnish Colony)

Norman Foster’s Pyramid Opera House Astana, Kazakhstan

“The Chongqing Zhengsheng Real Estate Company wants to turn the area into a £40m ‘Broadway’ square, including apartments and a shopping mall. But the owner of the villa says he won’t move out unless the company pays his price - the equivalent of £1.3 million.

“The villa owner refuses to move, so the real-estate developer has had to dig out all around it to force him to,” says a saleswoman at Weilian Real Estate Sales Company.

“He wants 20 million yuan, or he’ll stay till the end of the world.” (From The Guardian)

Emilio Ambas, Dai-Ichi Semei Insurance, Fukuoka, Japan (model)

It could go on for forever, it probably should, Here is an interesting book on the topic