The fantasy and reality are often confused with each other, creating imaginary and
permanent architectural forms from very simple actions. This can fuel new projects, or take
root in protection through the constraints. Lurking around the corner, there is the
relationship between utopia and its ideological fixation, until the formation of dystopia and
'bad place'. The present paper deals with the relationship between these categories, using, as
paradigmatic background, the landscape of the squares ('campi' = 'fields') of Venice first and
then the city of Almere, in which, in 1982 and 1985, took place the Architectural competitions
for the districts of Fantasy and Reality.
