The interview was held in Madrid in the winter of 2014 on the occasion of the exhibitions on the French architect and urbanist who took place the same year in the COAM and in the School of Architecture of the University of Alcalá.
Yona Friedman, a French architect who despite having no built work, is one of the most important and influential figures of the twentieth century. For his graphic utopian discourse, he might be compared to Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
Yona Friedman is recognized by José Juan Barba as one of the pioneers of the twentieth century, who was ahead of his time and proposed ideas and projects that have been developed by others after decades. Friedman reconsidered the metropolitan character of architecture, his projects re-interpret the contemporary city, establishing a dialogue with the existing city. In his social utopias on Mobile Architecture he reflects on the ownership of land and citizen participation. Barba emphasizes his interventions in the great cities of the world based on the union and suppression of the borders within a geopolitical context of separation and rupture. Among Friedman's proposals stands out the colonization of Manhattan, as a recognition of the city of the twentieth century, a vision that later found echo in the works of Archigram, Rem Koolhas or Bernard Tschumi.
A tour with José Juan Barba through the trajectory and revolutionary ideas of an emblematic French architect, Yona Friedman.
Yona Friedman, a French architect who despite having no built work, is one of the most important and influential figures of the twentieth century. For his graphic utopian discourse, he might be compared to Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
Yona Friedman is recognized by José Juan Barba as one of the pioneers of the twentieth century, who was ahead of his time and proposed ideas and projects that have been developed by others after decades. Friedman reconsidered the metropolitan character of architecture, his projects re-interpret the contemporary city, establishing a dialogue with the existing city. In his social utopias on Mobile Architecture he reflects on the ownership of land and citizen participation. Barba emphasizes his interventions in the great cities of the world based on the union and suppression of the borders within a geopolitical context of separation and rupture. Among Friedman's proposals stands out the colonization of Manhattan, as a recognition of the city of the twentieth century, a vision that later found echo in the works of Archigram, Rem Koolhas or Bernard Tschumi.
A tour with José Juan Barba through the trajectory and revolutionary ideas of an emblematic French architect, Yona Friedman.
