Avian monstrosities: hatching and dispatching the machined interior

Title: Avian monstrosities: hatching and dispatching the machined interior
Creator: Chapman, Michael; Ostwald, Michael
Relation: Ultima Thule: Journal of Architectural Imagination Vol. 2, Issue 1, p. 1-18
Publisher: Harvey Pickersgill: Architecture and Design
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2012
Description: From the opening sequence of Lucian of Samosota’s description of his epic voyage in True Stories, the utopian motivation for his journey is clear. Lucian writes: "[o]nce upon a time […] I went a-voyaging. The motive and purpose of my journey lay in my intellectual activity and desire for adventure […]. On this account I put aboard a good store of provisions, stowed water enough […] and put my boat […] in trim for a long and difficult voyage." This passage evokes both the mythopoetic conventions of classic utopian fiction and of the early Twentieth Century modernist utopia. In this latter tradition, images of transport and escape were used to support the argument for a new technological rationalism. It is not accidental then, that the first pages of Le Corbusier’s City of Tomorrow where interleaved with images of passenger ships, aircrafts in flight or other technological advances in transport.
Subject: architecture; technological rationalism; egg-shaped structures
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1309139
Identifier: uon:21785
Identifier: ISSN:1839-9991
Language: eng
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