Utopia

• What Utopia is• Beauty and Good are equivalent in Utopia• Utopia is beautiful• The land-administration is rational• Amauroto: the most beautiful city in the

island• There is no private-property• Beauty Utopia and city in More’s time and in

our time• City of the sun –Campanella’s Utopia-• Lord Bacon and the new Atlantis (Bensalem-

city; Palmanova; Pienza; Curitiba; La Scarzuola)

• What we learned

What Utopia is

Beauty and Good are equivalent in Utopia

Utopia is beautifulUTOPIA is nowhere!

It’s a beautiful verdant island crossed by a river (An-idros). It’s located in the Ocean and seems like Venice, a maritime power at

the time of More.It’s rich because lots of ships

arrive in its Harbor.It looks like a “new moon”, as More says, laying on the sea,

but no strong winds blow on its valley because it’s protected by

the hills

It’s very important for a state to administer its land!

If a land is well-administrated the citizen’s life is easier, comfortable and

functional.For this reason Utopia’s capital –

Amauroto – is in the middle of the island and each of the 53 towns is distant

exactly 24 miles from it. It means that every utopian needs the

same time to arrive in Amauroto.

The land-administration is rational

For all the cities in the world the weather is one of the most

important things that makes life enjoyable.

For this reason More wants Amauroto to be near of the river

and in front of the Ocean

King Utopo designed Amauroto’s architecture and he taught the citizens how to take care of it.

Amauroto has a beautiful waterfall and canals linked with the land so

that people can travel more easily around it.

Amauroto: the most beautiful city on the island

There’s no private property…Everything belongs to everybody in Utopia.

Every family lives in big blocks with other families.Every block has its garden and a common kitchen where the women cook and

the people eat all together. No family can live in the same house for a long time. Each of them has to swap

after a short period.

For this reason Utopians don’t need private property and love and look after the pubblic trust; all the citizens, in fact, know and love each other as a big family

and Utopia as their Home!

Beauty Utopia and City at More’s time and at our time…

LAURANA was the director and designer of the Ducal Palace in Urbino and one of the protagonists of Italian architecture in the 15th century. He has greatly influenced the

development of Renaissance.It’s evident from his projects that there is harmony, refinement and meter.

Another example of city’s beauty is the “City of the sun”Campanella’s utopia.

The characters of Campanella’s utopia are the same as More’s Utopia.

•Beauty•Good weather•Good position•Architectural structure made to capture the good influence of the SUN•IT’s an astrological-magical town•Good administration•Communism• Birth control

Lord Bacon and the new Atlantis

Atlantis is a utopian land where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit" are the commonly

held qualities of the inhabitants of the mythical Bensalem. The plan and

organisation of his ideal college Solomon's House, envisioned the modern research

university in both applied and pure sciences.

Palmanova, Marche: is an Italian town of 5,396 inhabitants in the province of Udine. It’s a city fortress built by the Venetians in 1593 and it got its name for its Starry polygonal star with 9 points . Palmanova was conceived primarily as a war machine and it’s expression of a new urbanistic renaissance.

Pienza, Tuscany: city and municipality in the province of Siena. It’s a beautiful model of urban renaissance built by Enea Silvio Piccolomini, a Renaissance humanist who became Pope Pius II.

It represents the first application of humanist urban planning concepts.

Curitiba, Brazil: It’s an ideal city founded in Brasil as an ecological capital, with its 55 square meters of green area per person.

La scarzuola, Umbria: is a rural town in Umbria. It is better known for to the ancient convent where, according to tradition , St. Francis of Assisi lived. In the 20th century

Tomaso Buzzi rebuilt it as a personal interpretation of the theme of the " ideal city”. A great stage design he called " an anthology in stone ", voluntarily left unfinished.

Beauty helps the mind to be surrounded by beautiful things and so to do everything to continue to be surrounded by beauty

If a person is surrounded by beautiful things, he will be in

harmony with himself and with others. He is

accustomed to take care of beauty because once ruined it wouldn’t return as before.

Beauty, as Plato teaches, is harmony. If there is harmony in a city, there is a

sense of organization and the organization seems precision =

beware the rules = Justice

What we learned