ARCHITECTURE WITH THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE

Description

This monograph is devoted to the distinguished Hungarian architect, living and working in Paris, Yona Friedman.Yona Friedman’s work spans urban models, theoretical texts and animated films. He has participated in several biennial art exhibitions, including Shanghai, Venice and Documenta. His visionary, ground-breaking ideas have been at the forefront for several generations of architects and urban planners, and have clearly influenced the likes of Arata Isozaki or Bernard Tschumi. In 1956, he published his Manifeste de l’architecture Mobile, which set an urban structure on piles suitable for areas where building had not been not possible. This text was in turn used as the founding document of the Groupe d’ιtude d’architecture mobile (GEAM). He developed urban concepts such as La ville spatiale-the Spatial City where dwellings are freely distributed by the citizens thanks to low-cost, reusable mobile models.

172 pages / 20 x 27 cm / English, Spanish