“Into the blue depths” — Glass Mysticism in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s ‘We’ Luke Jones — Sept 2018 Bruno Taut ‘Dandanah: The Fairy Place’ (1919)
“Into the blue depths” — Glass Mysticism in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s ‘We’Luke Jones — Sept 2018
Bruno Taut ‘Dandanah: The Fairy Place’ (1919)
Diagram from Philip E. Wegner Imaginary Communities Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of
Modernity (2002)
Hugh Feriss ‘Glass City’ (1929)
Wenzel Hablik‘Starry Sky: Attempt’ (1909)
Mies van der Rohe Project for Alexanderplatz (1928)
Mies van der Rohe Project for Friedrichsstrasse (1921)
Photograph of Scheerbart, Bruno Taut and others in the Glashaus, Cologne (1914)
Aphorisms for Bruno Taut’s Glashaus
Bruno Tautfrom Alpine Architecture (1917-19)
Bruno Tautfrom Die Auflösung der Städte (1919)
Bruno Taut(left) from Die Auflösung der Städte (1919)
(right) from Alpine Architecture (1917-19)
Ivan Leonidov ‘The City of the Sun’ (1930s, various)
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Diagram of the plan of‘The City of the Sun’ (author’s own)