Architecture with the People, by the People, for the People: Yona Friedman (Coleccion Arte Arquitectura AA MUSAC) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8492861940 ISBN 13: 9788492861941

Publisher: Actar, 2011

Synopsis

This monograph, second in the collection featuring artists and architects who maintain a critical view of the contemporary world, 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 11. His visionary, ground-break- ing ideas have been at the forefront for several generations of architects and urban planners, and have clearly influenced the likes of Kenzo Tange, Arata Isozaki or Bernard Tschumi.
While Friedman is still active and remains socially committed, his most important ideas stem from the fifties and sixties. 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'e?tude 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. In 1965, along with Ionel Schein, Walter Jonas and others, he founded the Groupe International d'Architecture Prospective (GIAP).

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

New volume of the AA MUSAC Architecture Collection, featuring Yona Friedman

About the Author:

Hans Ulrich Obrist: (b. Zurich, Switzerland, 1968) is a contemporary art curator, critic and historian of art. He is currently Co-director of Exhibi- tions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London.

Kenneth Frampton: (born 1930, Woking, UK), is a British architect, critic, historian and the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York.

Manuel Orazi: (b 1974) collaborates with the Observatory on Architecture Targetti Foundation in Florence and the magazines Abitare, AMC and Log. Since 2009 he teaches Theories of contemporary architecture in Ascoli Piceno (UNICAM).

María Inés Rodriguez: Currently curator at Musac and the next chief curator at MUAC (Mexico DF) from July 2011

About this edition

• Publisher: Actar
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 8492861940
• ISBN 13: 9788492861941
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Rodriguez Maria Ines