Neither Village Nor City. Freddy Kahana

• Тип: Текст
• Автор: Freddy Kahana
• Издательство: Ingram(2020)
• ISBN: 9781456624712
• Язык: Английский

• Жанры: Основы строительства

This book attempts a comprehensive overview of the "architecture" of the kibbutz: its essence, its history, its constant change, and its physical planning and architectural expression and management, and relates to this unique spatial alternative from a holistic viewpoint: the kibbutz in all stages of its development, from the kvutza as a "micro-utopian" commune to its physical configuration as an autonomous-autarkic complex arising out of its basic social, economic and educational structure, and its later stages as a potential 'macro-utopian' regional entity, envisioning a real alternative lifestyle to the capitalist metropolis. It is about its beginning and also about its end… and what might perhaps be its new future…