In 1516, Thomas More published Utopia, thus triggering for the Renaissance as for four of our days a literary ritual designating an idyllic future society and evaluating by its result the already existing society. Throughout history, humans have been obsessed with the projected utopias of the world that revealed their perception of the world. These multidimensional projections can be seen as naiveties that only spread into the peripheral world as subjective thoughts. Half a century after More, Leon Battista Alberti promoted a parallel utopian tradition of designing the utopian city, dedicated to Francesco Sforza. This utopian urbanism initiated a multitude of efforts to install a desirable geometric pattern for future living without explaining how to achieve it. A few centuries later, we see how this obsession with planning a utopia continues through the master plan of Le Corbusier's Villa Radieuse. A master plan proposed as a resolution to the riddle of human existence in an industrialized world. However, with the recognition of the concept of utopia and the conception of it, we come to question even more whether a utopia can truly exist outside of one's mind and whether it transforms into a dystopia once physically established. Can a collective utopian vision exist or does a utopian city arise from the coexistence of a variety of utopian thoughts and ideas? Utopia and dystopia are terms that are continually coined by the society in which they live. Nevertheless, when examining utopia in both contexts (Renaissance and 20th century), the term dates back to Riegl's conception of art where the latter acts as a means of expressing how man wants to understand the world. Through...... middle of article ......a utopian vision but in a combination of social, political and human needs.Works Cited1. Colin Rowe and Professor Koetter Fred, Collage City. Boston: MIT Press: 19842. Frank E. Manuel and Manuel Frtizie, Utopian Thought in the Western World. London: Belknap Press 19823. Iverson, Margaret. Alois Riegl: History and theory of art. Boston: MIT Press 19934. Le Corbusier. The city of tomorrow and its development. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 19875. Meyerson, Martin. Utopian traditions and city planning. Boston: MIT Press 19616. Nietzche, Friedrich. The Gay Science, based on Kaufaman's translation, Penguin Books, NYC 19687. Richard T. LeGates and States Frederic. The City Reader. London: Routledge: 5th edition 20111. Merin, Gili. “AD Classics: Ville Radieuse / Le Corbusier” August 11, 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed November 24 2013.