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- - - - innovative buildings and environments developed for children: adventure playground, the Hertfordshire school, the reformed children hospital, Brutalist housing estates, and New Towns.
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        book 'team 10 a search of a utopia of the present'
        
        NILS NORMAN notion of 'utopia'.
        
        'standing up to the giants of modernism'.
        
        Chafing within the confines of a functionalist orthodoxy that tended to reduce human individuals to numbers on a chart, they banded together under the name Team 10 to propose architecture grounded in a sense of community identity.
        
        Team 10 is Utopian, but Utopian about the present. (http://www.team10online.org/).
        
        they stood AGAINST the idea of an 'abstract master plan'.
        
        to BUILD over to theorize.
- - - - The classical tradition lies in the regular geometric order found at the base of the plan. The modern is manifested in the dynamic centrifugal space that crosses the classical order. (space that veers off centre).
        
        biomorphic domes that cover the different spaces, the first impression it evokes is that of an archaic settlement, reminiscent of a small vaulted Arab city or an African town.