Eurotopians

How do we want to live? How shall we build? Where can we find ideas for the houses and cities of the future? Niklas Maak and Johanna Diehl focus their attention on these highly topical questions in their joint project Eurotopians. In times of change, this volume casts its backward gaze on the work of European utopians in order to find visions for the present.

During the 1960s and 1970s, visionary architecture was created in Europe, raising fundamental questions about our current ideas of how we should live. Many of these buildings are now in ruins, and their architects forgotten—although some still reside there. Maak visited these sites and created an "archaeology of the utopian", demonstrating that important ideas for the world of tomorrow can indeed be found in these ruins.

Johanna Diehl has captured impressive photographs of great intensity. In the ruins of these utopias of the modern age, she discovered images of revolutionary approaches to life that seem surprisingly topical.