
Gyula Kosice's Urban Idealism
At first, the "Hydrospatial City," Argentine artist Gyula Kosice’s expansive conceptual work begun in 1972 and continuing to this day, seems firmly planted in the long tradition of floating cities. Around the time Kosice began working on his project, plans for utopian cities were gaining prominence, especially within architecture—see Kenzo Tange's 1960 plan for Tokyo Bay, Mayor John Lindsay's 1967 “Linear City for New York,” and Amancio Williams's 1974 project “The City Which Humanity Needs” for Buenos Aires. The primary maquettes for Kosice’s project are hovering discs, each dotted with