Edited with text by Maurizio Bortolotti. Text by Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Yona Friedman, Hou Hanru, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Pictograms, doodles and more from the radical exponent of “mobile architecture”
A leading figure in the avant-garde architecture movements of the postwar era, the Hungarian-born French architect, urban planner and designer Yona Friedman (1923-2020) was best known for his theory of "mobile architecture.” This is the first catalog on Yona Friedman the artist. It presents an extensive collection of visual materials, including drawings, cartoons and pictograms, made by Friedman as a mode of thinking deemed more efficient than language, and for pleasure.
“Drawing for my own pleasure meant that I enjoyed looking at my drawings,” he writes here, “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 boulevard Pasteur and my home at boulevard Garibaldi.”
Featured image is reproduced from 'Yona Friedman: Untitled.'
in stock $60.00
Free Shipping
UPS GROUND IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S. FOR CONSUMER ONLINE ORDERS
NEW YORK Showroom by Appointment Only 75 Broad Street, Suite 630 New York NY 10004 Tel 212 627 1999
LOS ANGELES Showroom by Appointment Only
818 S. Broadway, Suite 700 Los Angeles, CA 90014 Tel. 323 969 8985
ARTBOOK LLC D.A.P. | Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
All site content Copyright C 2000-2017 by Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. and the respective publishers, authors, artists. For reproduction permissions, contact the copyright holders.
The D.A.P. Catalog www.artbook.com
Distributed by D.A.P.
FORMAT: Pbk, 8.5 x 11.75 in. / 272 pgs / 128 color / 75 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $60.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $84 ISBN: 9783960987734 PUBLISHER: Walther König, Köln AVAILABLE: 8/18/2020 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: FLAT40 PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA LA ASIA AU/NZ AFR
Pictograms, doodles and more from the radical exponent of “mobile architecture”
Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited with text by Maurizio Bortolotti. Text by Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Yona Friedman, Hou Hanru, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
A leading figure in the avant-garde architecture movements of the postwar era, the Hungarian-born French architect, urban planner and designer Yona Friedman (1923-2020) was best known for his theory of "mobile architecture.” This is the first catalog on Yona Friedman the artist. It presents an extensive collection of visual materials, including drawings, cartoons and pictograms, made by Friedman as a mode of thinking deemed more efficient than language, and for pleasure.
“Drawing for my own pleasure meant that I enjoyed looking at my drawings,” he writes here, “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 boulevard Pasteur and my home at boulevard Garibaldi.”
