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“Into the blue depths” — Glass Mysticism in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s ‘We’Luke Jones — Sept 2018

Bruno Taut ‘Dandanah: The Fairy Place’ (1919)

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Diagram from Philip E. Wegner Imaginary Communities Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of

Modernity (2002)

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Hugh Feriss ‘Glass City’ (1929)

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Wenzel Hablik‘Starry Sky: Attempt’ (1909)

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Mies van der Rohe Project for Alexanderplatz (1928)

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Mies van der Rohe Project for Friedrichsstrasse (1921)

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Photograph of Scheerbart, Bruno Taut and others in the Glashaus, Cologne (1914)

Aphorisms for Bruno Taut’s Glashaus

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Bruno Tautfrom Alpine Architecture (1917-19)

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Bruno Tautfrom Die Auflösung der Städte (1919)

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Bruno Taut(left) from Die Auflösung der Städte (1919)

(right) from Alpine Architecture (1917-19)

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Ivan Leonidov ‘The City of the Sun’ (1930s, various)

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Mat

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matical Forms

The

Ear

th

Continents Countries Languages

Star

s PlanetsThe

Ea

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In order, the r ings have painted on them — Mathematical symbols / the earthMinerals / r ivers and lakes, weatherTrees and herbs / f ishBirds / insectsMammalsMechanical arts / great men

M athe matical

F

orm

s

Seas

R

iver

s L

akes

Oils Wines Healing L

iquids Hailstorms Snow Thunder

Stones

M

inerals M

eta ls

Fish

Sea Creatures

Trees

Her

bs

P

lants Medicines

Cree

ping

ani

mal

s

Insects

Serpents

Dragons

Birds

C

reat

ures

of th

e air

Mec

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cal A

rts

In

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ions a

nd In

ventors

Her

oes

Animals

Diagram of the plan of‘The City of the Sun’ (author’s own)

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