The Ideal City: 2nd Valencia Biennial

by Will Alsop, Bruce McLean

The 2nd Valencia Biennial explores, together with leading international artists and creators, a central problem facing the world the destiny of diversity. Specially commissioned projects question the power and potential of the city, of The Ideal City , understood as a prismatic place capable of symbolically ordering and accommodating difference and differences without smothering them.

376 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2003

About the author

Will (William) Allen Alsop, OBE RA is a British architect based in London. He is responsible for several distinctive and controversial modernist buildings, most in the United Kingdom. Alsop's buildings are usually distinguished by their use of bright colour and unusual forms. While Alsop has won praise from some critics and fans of avant-garde architecture, he has also faced criticism from fellow architects and some segments of the general public.