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Titre:
L'architecture de survie : une philosophie de la pauvreté

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« Bien que l’expression “l’architecture de survie” ait un sens à peu près inverse de celui de “la survie de l’architecte”, mon but dans ce livre, est de reconsidérer le rôle de l’architecture dans la simple survie de l’espèce, sans pour autant utiliser des slogans grandiloquents, sans surestimer ce rôle et sans faire de propositions utopiques, donc irréalisables. Il va me falloir, de nouveau, poser certaines questions (sur lesquelles je travaille depuis plus de quarante ans), les analyser et enfin, et surtout, mentionner, à titre d’exemples, quelques solutions que j’ai proposées durant ces quarante ans. Les questions sont fort simples : à qui revient le droit de décision en matière d’architecture? Comment assurer ce droit à celui auquel il revient? Comment le faire dans un monde qui va vers une pauvreté croissante? Comment survivre dans un tel monde? Qu’est-ce que ce “monde pauvre”? Comment agir face à ces perspectives? »

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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.

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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.

Titre:
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".

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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.

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Architecture with the people, by the people, for the people

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Yona Friedman's work spans urban models, theoretical texts and animated films and he has participated in several biennial art exhibitions, including Shanghai, Venice and Documenta. His visionary, ground-breaking ideas have been at the forefront for several generations of architects and urban planners, and have clearly influenced the likes of Arata Isozaki or Bernard Tschumi. He has 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.

Titre:
L'ordre compliqué et autres fragments

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C'est à partir de ce simple postulat que Yona Friedman construit une image du monde fondée sur l'harmonie et qui défie les lois habituelles de la physique. L'univers devient alors erratique, l'espace est composé de granules infimes de vide et notre perception de la mosaïque du monde s'attache autant à chacune de ses pierres qu'à l’ensemble qu'elles constituent. L'ordre compliqué se présente comme une nouvelle monadologie, illustrée de dessins au trait et traduite en «bande dessinée» par l'auteur – entre autres – des Utopies réalisables (L'éclat, 2000) et de L'Architecture de survie (L'éclat 2003).

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Villes imaginaires / Citta immaginarie / Imaginary cities / Imaginären Stadte

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Yona Friedman imagine Paris, Venise, Berlin, Shangai, New York et Amsterdam sans les contraintes de l'urbanisme. Dans le quartier des Halles à Paris, un forum suspendu au dessus des pavillons Baltard permet ainsi de faire cohabiter à la verticale l'ancienne et la nouvelle ville.

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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.

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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 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.''