Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Busbea, Larry

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.

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Details

Description

ix, 229 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"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."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Urban utopia in France, 1960-1970

Subject

• Friedman, Yona 1923-2019
• Maymont, Paul 1926-
• Ragon, Michel 1924-2020
• Schöffer, Nicolas 1912-1992
• Paris
• Groupe international d'architecture prospective
• 1900-1999
• City planning > France > Paris > History > 20th century
• Architecture > France > Paris > History
• Urbanisme > France > Paris > Histoire > 20e siècle
• Architecture > France > Paris > Histoire
• Architecture
• City planning
• Stadtplanung
• Utopie
• Architecture and technology > France > 20th century
• Visionary architecture > France > 20th century
• Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > France > Paris > 20th century
• Stadsplanering (estetik) > historia > Frankrike > 1960-talet
• France > Paris
• Frankreich

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-219) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Spatial culture in France, 1960-1970 : Looking ahead ; A median world ; The topological utopia ; The shape of theory -- Spatial urbanism and mobile architecture : Spatial urbanism ; Leisure and mobility ; Yona Friedman and the Groupe d'Études d'Architecture Mobile ; The international context -- The conception and reception of the Groupe International d'Architecture Prospective : GIAP ; The composite city ; Rhetoric and reception ; Neo-avant-garde -- "Paris sur Paris": spatial urbanism and prospective planning culture : The crisis of modernism in France ; Prospective Paris ; Spatial Paris -- Topological polemics : Space frames: a selective history ; Topology and the space frame ; The urban frame ; Architecture principe and the anti-space frame -- Integrations : From synthesis to the integration of the arts ; Ambient space and plastic language ; An object world -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 0262026112
• 9780262026116
• 9780262518109
• 0262518104

LCCN

2006030110

OCLC

• 71329907
• SCSB-12387851

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library