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New Babylonians / edited by Iain Borden + Sandy McCreery.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Architectural design (London, England : 1971) ; v. 71, no. 3.
- Architectural design profile ; no. 151.
- Architectural design ; v. 71, no. 3
- Profile ; 151
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning.
- Situation (Aesthetics).
- Internationale situationniste.
- Architecture, Modern--Philosophy.
- Architecture, Modern.
- Constant, 1920-2005.
- Constant.
- Physical Description:
- 112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Wiley-Academy, 2001.
- Summary:
- Renowned for its decadence and its hanging gardens, ancient Babylon was a cosmopolitan cultural centre which established the civic principles of freedom and law. In 1959, a member of the Situationist International, the Dutch artist Constant Nieuwenhuys, entitled his utopian vision of a unitary urbanism 'New Babylon'. With the aid of coloured perspectives, plans and models, as well as a potent narrative, Constant delivered a shocking image of a metropolitan future.
- Today, over 40 years later, there is a renewed wave of interest in Constant and the thinking of the Situationist International. In two seminal essays by Mark Wigley and David Pinder, quite how substantial their impact on urbanism has been is revealed. It is, however, through the publication that a highly disparate group of architectural practices and cultural thinkers emerge -- the New Babylonians -- all inspired in very different ways by situationism.
- Contents:
- Critique of Lines / Iain Borden, Sandy McCreery 6
- The Great Urbanism Game / Mark Wigley 8
- New Babylon: An Urbanism of the Future / Constant Nieuwenhuys 12
- Utopian Transfiguration: The Other Spaces of New Babylon / David Pinder 15
- The Surreal Foil / Lorenzo Romito 20
- Transborderline: A habitable cross border structure to support the free circulation of people / Stalker 23
- Images at the Edge of the Built / Charles Rice 25
- City Hall Vauxhall X / Carlos Villanueva Brandt 30
- Connections Could Be Made There: Detecting Situationist Tendencies in Adriaan Geuze and West 8 / Julia Chance 36
- What is the Difference Between a Situationist and an Essex Girl? / General Lighting & Power 44
- Manoeuvre: Discursive Performance / Tim Brennan 48
- Abstract Tours Operator / Laura Ruggeri 52
- Weather Architecture / Jonathon Hill 56
- Scene 8 / Mark Taylor 60
- Fruin Street, Millennium Space, Possilpark / Sally Nicol 64
- Jon Jerde's Consuming Fantasies and Other Urban Interiors / Karin Jaschke 65
- Webbed Babylon / Colin Fournier 74
- Out of Babylon / Barry Curtis 78
- A Global Derive / Gil M Doron 82
- The Indeterminate Utopia / Simon Sadler 88
- Architectural Design +
- Multi-Source Synthesis: Delivering a Sustainable Future / Battle McCarthy 94
- Building Profile: The 0resund Link / Jeremy Melvin 99
- Practice Profile: Radical Derive / Bart Lootsma 104
- Site Lines / Ivan Margolius 110.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0471499099
- OCLC:
- 51265138
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