Description du phalanstère et considérations sociales sur l'architectonique
Victor Considerant's 1848 Paris treatise, published by the Phalanstérienne publishing house, describes Charles Fourier's planned communal settlement, the phalanstery, for its utopian socialist readers and architects. Its pictures show a sprawling walled complex of workshops and galleries beside a river, a floor plan with lettered legends, and a sketch of a central courtyard, which a designer could draw on for utopian settlement layouts, symmetrical courtyard blocks, and diagrammatic site plans.
