Utopian progress & architecture of collapse: Bayocean, Futurism & The Line

From seaside resorts that went bust to the glass hive cities imagined by poets and despots in the middle of nowhere, unrealistic utopian dreams have an enduring allure.

If there's one thing shared by intense poets, self-made magnates, and big dignitaries, it's their ambition to try to reach the stage that will make or break them, the feat that will get them closer to eternity —or cause their ruin.

An idyllic sea resort engulfed by the ocean in Oregon, an imaginary futuristic community that a Russian poet dreamed about s…