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

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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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    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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    Architectural design by Eero Saarinen. The Trans World Flight Center remains one is his most renown designs.
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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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    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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    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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    Walden 7, by Ricardo Bofill, is a futuristic housing complex in Barcelona.
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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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