Summary Of Recovering Utopia By Coleman

A response to: Recovering Utopia by Nathanial Coleman from the Journal of Architectural Education. This article is an intellectual article put together to explain the dangers and realistic ideals that come along with trying to create utopian architecture or a utopian city. Coleman describes in detail the difficulties that come along with trying to create utopian architecture. Making his article more understandable he describes what it means for something to be utopian. Coleman explains his strong opinion on how utopian architecture is basically impossible to create. This article has given me a new perspective on how I imagine utopia to be integrated into architecture and city planning.
In attempt to put into words what utopia in architecture his, Coleman explains that “for architecture or urbanism to be considered utopian (or as a utopia, no
Being able to create a space that anyone could enter and feel like they were the most comfortable, happy, and overall enjoying themselves is something that any architect and designer strives to create. Along with this longing for a utopian space comes the realization that something that appeals to everyone is among the most difficult to do. After reading this article it gave me a different perspective that not only is it difficult but that it is dangerous to strive for utopia. As Coleman articulates that “Having learned from the failures of the past, today’s architects imagine themselves as immune to the charms of utopia and so their work,it should follow, has been able to overcome the dangers (and excesses) of utopia that so bedeviled a large part of twentieth-century architecture, and in particular its attempts to remake the city”. I’ve never thought of architecture as having temptations but the way Coleman explains how utopian architecture has faults and is nearly impossible to