Space, Knowledge and Power: on Utopian in Architecture

Student: Sukhanova Anastasiya

Educational Programme: Visual Culture (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2019

In this study, an attempt is being made to identify the significance of the category of utopian in the context of architecture and to prove the need for utopian thought in modern architecture and urban planning. To achieve this goal, the author reconstructs the history of utopian thought and the historical transformation of utopian discourse, studies various theoretical approaches to understanding utopia, analyses early Soviet architecture and other similar large-scale modernist projects, problematises the alienation of architecture from utopian discourse and identifies the need to rehabilitate the utopian in modern architecture.

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