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Representing the world, the planet and the cosmos is one of the greatest utopias in architecture. Ninety projects spread from Antiquity to the present day allow us to tell a double story: how architects, alongside geographers, astronomers, mathematicians and artists, participate in the discovery of the Earth and the sky, and in their representation. And how, in return, the shape of the globe haunts architecture, its humanists and its utopians, from Étienne-Louis Boullée, Claude Nicolas Ledoux or Alfons Mucha to George Lucas or Rem Koolhaas.
Richly illustrated with largely unpublished documentation, these atypical projects are accompanied by in-depth studies carried out by specialists from different disciplines, from anthropology to science fiction, aiming to show the architect as witness and actor in the discovery of the world.
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