This podcast uses Lewis Mumford’s concepts of the Utopia of Escape and the Utopia of Reconstruction as the framework…
Category: Assignments
Port Breton Settlement
The woodblock illustration in the Saturday, April 16th, 1881 issue of the The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser…
Rem Koolhaas’ Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture
For my final project, I am interested in examining how borders function–on both a symbolic and a literal level–as zones…
Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow: Disneyworld’s Epcot Center as a Utopian Failure and a Commercial Success
Just right of the center of Disneyworld’s expansive grounds in Orlando, FL sits an immense reflective sphere, textured like a…
Jonestown as Utopia
Jonestown, alternatively known as the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, was an attempted utopian commune in Guyana. Jim Jones began the…
The Mundaneum & the Global City
The construction for the Mundaneum was initiated in 1895 by Paul Otlet and Henri la Fontaine in Belgium. The word…