Yonba Friedman Pro Domo
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Yona Friedman presents a personal selection of half a century of his work. In 1958 Yona Friedman published his first manifesto on "mobile architecture" and founded GEAM (Groupe d'Etude d'Architecture Mobile), which proposed different strategies and actions geared to the adaptation of architectural creation to modern user requirements concerning social and physical(...)
Yonba Friedman Pro Domo
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Yona Friedman presents a personal selection of half a century of his work. In 1958 Yona Friedman published his first manifesto on "mobile architecture" and founded GEAM (Groupe d'Etude d'Architecture Mobile), which proposed different strategies and actions geared to the adaptation of architectural creation to modern user requirements concerning social and physical mobility. In this initial manifesto, Friedman points out that architectural knowledge cannot be the exclusive property of professionals and specialists, and suggests writing guides ("manuals"), which explain topics related to architecture and urban planning in clear and simple terms. Following some recent publications that have reasserted the importance of Friedman's work, Pro Domo is "a collection of fragments of scattered topics," a set of "milestones" selected by the author himself. In his words, these highlights are not meant as a testament nor do they, form a coherent whole." Instead, they form a personal selection chosen according to their sentimental value and span fifty-year period of production dating from the foundation of GEAM. The book includes building structure studies, urban design theories, observations on regional development, as well as design manuals for self-construction and competition projects.
Architecture Monographs
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"People make too much of architecture. I have a running quarrel with architects who overestimate architecture. Reality is at eye-level with people walking down the street." Born in 1923 in Budapest, Hungary, Yona Friedman is widely considered one of the greatest utopian visionary architects of the twentieth century. Currently based in Paris, he is just as much a(...)
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July 2007, Cologne
Yona Friedman / Hans Ulrich Obrist : the conversation series 7
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"People make too much of architecture. I have a running quarrel with architects who overestimate architecture. Reality is at eye-level with people walking down the street." Born in 1923 in Budapest, Hungary, Yona Friedman is widely considered one of the greatest utopian visionary architects of the twentieth century. Currently based in Paris, he is just as much a sociologist as a designer of buildings, more concerned with the way people interact with their environments than monumental statements by an ego-centric creator. In this illuminating talk with The Conversation Series editor Hans Ulrich Obrist, he touches on the needs of the individual in heterogeneous urban societies, past and future projects, utopia, influences and metaphysics, revealing a wise and deeply-animated humanistic intellect. Known for his 1958 manifesto, L'Architecture mobile, Friedman's ideas have remained influential. His work was featured at the 2002 Documenta.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Center for Contemporary Art, CCA, Kitakyushu 'In a series of drawings I made on the 4 x 4 truths, the first 'single truth' is: 'we can not understand the universe', followed by the second: 'we do not need to understand the universe.' In the following pages, I try to exprove the 'emotional logic' that led me to this point of view.
Yona Friedman: the ''trompe l'oeil'' universe
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Center for Contemporary Art, CCA, Kitakyushu 'In a series of drawings I made on the 4 x 4 truths, the first 'single truth' is: 'we can not understand the universe', followed by the second: 'we do not need to understand the universe.' In the following pages, I try to exprove the 'emotional logic' that led me to this point of view.
Architecture Monographs
Yona Friedman: cities
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Center for Contemporary Art, CCA, Kitakyushu 'Cities can be poetic. So are people you meet and the cityscape you look on. Each of us walk in our own imaginary city meeting imaginary people. This book tries to be a tourist guide to such imaginary cities.' Yona Friedman
Yona Friedman: cities
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Center for Contemporary Art, CCA, Kitakyushu 'Cities can be poetic. So are people you meet and the cityscape you look on. Each of us walk in our own imaginary city meeting imaginary people. This book tries to be a tourist guide to such imaginary cities.' Yona Friedman
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Gleaned from texts written from the 1970s onwards, this volume collects practical information on the construction of roofs and shelters that were intended to meet the material needs of impoverished peoples in the Global South. It is representative of architect Yona Friedman’s foresight in those years, as he had already decided to focus his interventions on how to include(...)
Roofs: local materials, simple technology, sophisticated ideas
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Gleaned from texts written from the 1970s onwards, this volume collects practical information on the construction of roofs and shelters that were intended to meet the material needs of impoverished peoples in the Global South. It is representative of architect Yona Friedman’s foresight in those years, as he had already decided to focus his interventions on how to include the inhabitants in the design of their habitat and dwellings. Besides being tested for UNESCO, Friedman’s manuals include essential 'blackboard' sketches. Ultimately, ''Roofs'' highlights the fact that the various issues facing modern cities are the result of irresponsible attitudes towards our planet.
Architecture Monographs
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« Vous avez un chien » se présente sous la forme d’une bande dessinée qui met en scène un/e chien/ne et son/sa maître/sse. C’est un manuel d’éducation pour tous ceux qui vivent avec des animaux domestiques ou d’autres êtres vivants. Écrit par Balkis Berger-Dobermann, qui partageait la vie des Friedman, Vous avez un chien aurait pu s’intituler « Comment dresser ses maîtres(...)
Vous avez un chien : C'est lui qui vous a choisi(e)
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« Vous avez un chien » se présente sous la forme d’une bande dessinée qui met en scène un/e chien/ne et son/sa maître/sse. C’est un manuel d’éducation pour tous ceux qui vivent avec des animaux domestiques ou d’autres êtres vivants. Écrit par Balkis Berger-Dobermann, qui partageait la vie des Friedman, Vous avez un chien aurait pu s’intituler « Comment dresser ses maîtres », mais l’auteur a préféré s’en tenir à un titre plus « général » et moins « anthropomorphe ». « Vous avez un chien » est aussi un livre pour ceux qui ont des chats, des canaris, des poissons rouges. Il énonce selon des principes simples « comment vivre avec les autres, sans être maître, ni esclave » pour reprendre le titre d’un autre ouvrage de Friedman.
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Yona Friedman: Untitled
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This book is the first catalogue of Yona Friedman as an artist. In fact, it presents for the first time the whole work of art of this pivotal figure, well-known as an architect and theorist since the 60s of the last century. The catalogue shows an extensive collection of visual materials, including images, cartoons and pictograms, drawn by Yona Friedman in order to(...)
Architecture Monographs
January 2020
Yona Friedman: Untitled
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This book is the first catalogue of Yona Friedman as an artist. In fact, it presents for the first time the whole work of art of this pivotal figure, well-known as an architect and theorist since the 60s of the last century. The catalogue shows an extensive collection of visual materials, including images, cartoons and pictograms, drawn by Yona Friedman in order to replace the text with the image in his way of thinking. ''Drawing for my own pleasure meant that I enjoyed looking at my drawings, and so I pasted them on the walls of my home, of my studio, on furniture, and on the refrigerator. Indeed, I produced them as the personal landscape of my surroundings, even decorating the ceiling of my atelier at blvd Pasteur and my home at blvd. Garibaldi.''
Architecture Monographs
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'L'architecture mobile' est le premier essai de Yona Friedman, paru en 1958 et tiré à une dizaine d’exemplaires destinés à des architectes, dont Le Corbusier. Il fut réédité ensuite en 1961, 1963, 1968, enrichi à chaque fois de textes et dessins nouveaux jusqu'à l'édition de 1970. Cette présente édition rassemble tous les textes des différentes éditions et permet d'en(...)
L'architecture mobile : vers une cité conçue par ses habitants (1958-2020)
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'L'architecture mobile' est le premier essai de Yona Friedman, paru en 1958 et tiré à une dizaine d’exemplaires destinés à des architectes, dont Le Corbusier. Il fut réédité ensuite en 1961, 1963, 1968, enrichi à chaque fois de textes et dessins nouveaux jusqu'à l'édition de 1970. Cette présente édition rassemble tous les textes des différentes éditions et permet d'en suivre l'évolution et d'en identifier les strates.
Architectural Theory
Comment habiter la terre
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Publié pour le première fois en 1976, cette bande dessinée de Friedman portait la mention suivante: « Le but de la brochure est d’amener le lecteur à reconsidérer la place de l’homme-habitant dans un écosystème et de l’amener à réfléchir, dans un contexte de pénurie ou de crise durable ou temporaire, à des solutions de survie de son espèce. » Quarante ans plus tard,(...)
Comment habiter la terre
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Publié pour le première fois en 1976, cette bande dessinée de Friedman portait la mention suivante: « Le but de la brochure est d’amener le lecteur à reconsidérer la place de l’homme-habitant dans un écosystème et de l’amener à réfléchir, dans un contexte de pénurie ou de crise durable ou temporaire, à des solutions de survie de son espèce. » Quarante ans plus tard, lecteurs pourront constater que les problèmes et solutions alors évoqués par Friedman, sont très exactement ceux auxquels nous sommes confrontés encore aujourd’hui, et celles qu'il serait urgent de prendre en compte si l’on veut continuer d’habiter la terre.
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Utopies réalisables
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"L'analyse de certaines utopies sociales présentées dans ce livre, implique, en sous-entendu, l'acte d'accusation et la critique des deux "méchants" de notre époque que sont : "l'Etat mafia" et la "mafia des médias" (presse, radio, télévision, etc). L'existence d'un "Etat mafia" est la conséquence de l'impossibilité du maintien de l'Etat démocratique classique dès que les(...)
Utopies réalisables
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"L'analyse de certaines utopies sociales présentées dans ce livre, implique, en sous-entendu, l'acte d'accusation et la critique des deux "méchants" de notre époque que sont : "l'Etat mafia" et la "mafia des médias" (presse, radio, télévision, etc). L'existence d'un "Etat mafia" est la conséquence de l'impossibilité du maintien de l'Etat démocratique classique dès que les dimensions de l'Etat dépassent certaines limites ; et la "mafia des médias" en découle directement, par suite de l'impossibilité de la communication globale. L'échec de ces deux utopies généreuses, la démocratie et la "communication globale" entre les hommes, entraîne logiquement la formation de ces mafias qui agissent en notre nom et contre nos intérêts".
Architectural Theory