Architectural movements, utopian moments: (In)coherent renderings of the hundertwasser-haus, vienna

Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 327-345

  Kraftl, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Event and disjuncture; Geographies of architecture; Home; Relational spaces; Tourism; Unsettling utopia

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; SOCIAL HOUSING; TOURISM;

AUSTRIA; VIENNA;

EID: 78650571430     PISSN: 04353684     EISSN: 14680467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0467.2010.00356.x     Document Type: Article

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