YONA FRIEDMAN – “Architecture: an overview and speculations 2019”

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The first volume of No Man’s Land Collection is by YONA FRIEDMAN: a personal synthesis of architecture considered in relation to intellectual background, society, communication and sciences.

No Man’s Land collection is a series of artist books curated by members of the Scientific Committee of No Man’s Land Foundation.The print run of each volume is of 987 copies. A number that is a clear reference to Fibonacci’s arithmetic sequence, related to the growth process in nature.

YONA FRIEDMAN
Architecture: an overview and speculations 2019
NO MAN’S LAND COLLECTION
Curated by Lorenzo Benedetti
Editor: Di Paolo Edizioni
Editing: Jean-Baptiste Decavèle 
Made in collaboration with Gruppo Cordenons
Cover paper: Cordenons Malmero Cendre 300g
Internal pages paper: Cordenons Iceblink Bianca 145g
Printed by Grafiche Antiga S.p.A. in August 2019

CONTENT TABLE

• 0 Introduction
• 1 Architecture in general
• 2 No-Man’s Land
• 3 Architecture not necessarily functionalist
• 5 About the “Ville spatiale”
• 6 The “New Pavillonaire”
• 7 “Cloud” infrastructure
• 8 Architecture as popular art
• 9 Life styes
• 10 “Dispersed city”
• 11 Some terms explicited
• 12 Less hardware: the “Software city”
• 13 Urban growth: A strategy
• 14 Social structure
• 15 Townscape
• 16 Recapitulation
• 17 History
• 18 Immaterial city
• 19 Architecture as “Primitive” art
• 20 General note
• 21 A provvisory conclusion
• 22 Postface
• 23 Biosphere, the global infrastructure
• 24 About “space-chain”
• 25 Some general concepts
• 26 Particularities of architecture
• 27 A new style
• 28 Social effects of “Mobile architecture”
• 29 A short history of society
• 30 Didactic city
• 31 Postface 2.