The search for the ideal city in Renaissance Italy testifies not only to a strong interaction between the planning of an urban space and its socio political institutions, but also to a lively dialogue between architectural treatises and utopian texts.
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Le Familistère de Guise ou Palais social est l’expérimentation la plus complète de l’utopie sociale fouriériste.
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L'origine du Mundaneum remonte à la fin du 19ème siècle. Créé à l’initiative de deux juristes, Paul Otlet (1868-1944) et Henri La Fontaine (1854-1943), le projet visait à rassembler l’ensemble des connaissances du monde.
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The Star (Hvezda) Royal Summer Palace in Prague belongs to those rare buildings the primary purpose of" which was not purely utilitarian, as its location, layout and the surviving interior decorations reveal.
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