Visionary architecture : blueprints of the modern imagination / Neil Spiller.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-269).

Arcadia, alchemy, antiquity and machines / Nat Chard -- Absurd speeding objects and the revolutionary cabaret of science and dreams / Diller + Scofidio -- The politics and cybernetics of freedom 1950s and 1960s / NOX/Lars Spuybroek -- Iconography goes POP 1950s / Asymptote -- The second poverty of heroic structures and Arcadian networks 1960s and 1970s / C.J. Lim -- A gizmology of visionary housing a case study / Wes Jones -- Transcripts for a new détournement 1970s, 1980s and 1990s / Milenko Ivanovic -- Walking in a parkland of ecstasy, delirium and disjuncture 1980s / Morphosis -- War and relativity in the age of memorial mechanics 1980s / Felix Robbins -- The poetry of small things 1980s and 1990s / John Puttick -- Soft machines and virtual objects 1990s and beyond / Neil Spiller.