Gallery: Journey Back to the Dreamy, Gorgeous Architecture of Utopia

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    Bruce Goff/Gestalten
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    Architectural design by Bruce Goff—referred to in The Tale of Tomorrow as the "godfather" of the organic architecture movement. This circular interior is from the Glen Harder House in Mountain Lake, Minnesota.
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    Bruce Goff/Gestalten
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    The exterior of the Glen Harder House, by Bruce Goff,.with all its Asian pagoda influences, is seen here by Bruce Goff.
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    Balthazar Korab/Gestalten
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    Architectural design by Eero Saarinen. The Trans World Flight Center remains one is his most renown designs.
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    John Lautner/Gestalten
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    The Sheats/Goldstein Residence, by John Lautner, was made widely famous in The Big Lebowski. Recently, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art bought it.
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    Louis Kahn/Gestalten
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    National Assembly Building of Bangladesh by Louis Kahn, is referred to in the book as his "magnum opus." It's intensely geometric and contains clever passive cooling systems.
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    Robert Bruno/Gestalten
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    Steel House by Robert Bruno is more sculpture than house—at least, it was to the architect. Just outside Lubbock, Texas, the structure was built up and torn down many times as Bruno chipped away at it.
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    Ricardo Bofill/Gestalten
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    Walden 7, by Ricardo Bofill, is a futuristic housing complex in Barcelona.
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    Laurent Kronental/Ricardo Bofill/Gestalten
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    Les Arcades du Lac, by Ricardo Bofill, is a pedestrian-friendly, six-building housing complex stretched over an artificial lake. It was meant to alleviate the housing shortage in Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines.
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