Topologies : the urban utopia in France, 1960-1970 / Larry Busbea.

By:

Busbea, Larry

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2007Description: ix, 229 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780262026116 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

City planning -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century

DDC classification:

711.40944361 22

LOC classification:

NA9198.P2 B87 2007

Contents:

1. Spatial culture in France, 1960-1970 -- 2. Spatial urbanism and mobile architecture -- 3. The conception and reception of the Groupe International D'Architecture prospective -- 4. "Paris sur Paris" : spatial urbanism and prospective planning culture -- 5. Topological polemics -- 6. Integrations.

Review: "In this first study of the French avant-garde tendency known as spatial urbanism, Larry Busbea analyzes projects by artists and architects (including the most famous spatial practitioner, Yona Friedman) and explores texts (many of which have never before been translated from the French) by Michel Ragon, the influential founder of the Groupe International d'Architecture Prospective (GIAP), Victor Vasarely, and others."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In this first study of the French avant-garde tendency known as spatial urbanism, Larry Busbea analyzes projects by artists and architects (including the most famous spatial practitioner, Yona Friedman) and explores texts (many of which have never before been translated from the French) by Michel Ragon, the influential founder of the Groupe International d'Architecture Prospective (GIAP), Victor Vasarely, and others."--BOOK JACKET.

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