Utopia as a practical approach to urban chaos: towards a meaningful design process in architecture

Abstract

Utopia and design might together oppose chaos as they can provide an appropriate sense of place and an accurate translation of environmental meaning, explicitly because chaos has no recognisable order unless when partially analysed. Chaos can hardly be developed or imagined with intention. Chaos has no meaning unless when defined as the opposite of order and Architecture can assist the imagination of such order once we establish what a “balanced” architectural practice means.