Main entry:

Busbea, Larry.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.

Description:

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

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

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ISBN:

0262026112 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262026116 (hbk.)
9780262518109
0262518104

Subject:

Friedman, Yona 1923-2019
Maymont, Paul 1926-
Ragon, Michel 1924-2020
Schöffer, Nicolas 1912-1992
Paris
Groupe international d'architecture prospective
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

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252578
Call No.: BIB 182300
Status: Available