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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Note: unless mentioned otherwise, the entry is by Yona Friedman.
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– Yona Friedman papers, 1960-2007. The ‘Yona Friedman papers’ archive consists of written documents, sketches, slides and photographs spanning the years circa 1960-2007, 51.25 linear ft. (123 boxes), Getty Institute, Los Angeles, USA
2012
– Orazi, Manuel, ‘A Conversation with Yona Friedman’, Log, nr 26, New York, USA
– Architecture without buildings, CNAEI, Chatou, France
2011
– Architecture with the people, by the people, for the people. Yona Friedman, with Kenneth Frampton, Manuel Orazi, Maria Inés Rodriguez and Hans Ulrich Obrist, MUSAC/Actar, Barcelona, Spain (translations in Spanish and English)
– Démocratie, CNAEI, Chatou, France
2010
– Yona Friedman. Drawings & Models 1945-2010, with Marianne Homiridis, Les presses du réel / kamel menour, Paris, France
– Balkis Productions, Website with interviews and slide shows, Paris, France
– ‘A cloud spatiale city’, with Tomás Saraceno, Domus, Rozzano, Italy, June 2010
– Lambert, L., and Bourgois, M. Le, The funambulist, nr. 18, Website
– Schulze-Fielitz, Eckhard, et. al., Metalanguage of space, Springer, Vienna, Austria
– Orazi, Manuel, Universo erratic di Yona Friedman, Venice, Italy
– Burchinon, Marie-Cécile and Morris, Polly, et.al., Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism, Inova Milwaukee, USA / Hyde Park Art Centre, Chicago, USA / MOCAD, Detroit, USA in collaboration with FRAC, Orléans, France
2009
– Etc. Balkis Island, with Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Centre d’Art et du Paysage, Île de Vassivière, France, Sylvana Editoriale Spa, Milan, Italy
– Le petit bestiaire, CNEAI, Paris, France
– Films d’animation 1960-1963, dvd, Ensba – Ecole Nationale, Lyon, France
– Boulanger, Sylvie, Gribouilli, 1980-1990, dvd, music by Areski Belkacem, CNEAI, Chatou, France
– Hypothèses — LIBELLEº, 1, Chatou, France; Rennes, France
– Curators Serpentine Gallery, Hans Ulrich Obrist, et.al., Serpentine Gallery Manifesto Marathon, Koenig Books, London, UK
– Cerizza, Luca, and Daneri, Annie et. al., Yona Friedman, Fondazione Antonio Ratti/ Charta, Milan, Italy
2008
– Manuals. Volume III, CNEAI, Paris, France
– L’ordre compliqué et autres fragments, Editions l’éclat, Paris, France
– Rajan V. Ritoe, Interview compilation Yona Friedman, video Tomaat, YouTube
2007
– Manuals. Volume I, CNEAI, Paris, France
– Manuals. Volume II, CNEAI, Paris, France
– Notz, Adrian, Obrist, Hans-Ulrich (eds.), Merz World – Processing the Complicated Order, JRP/Ringier Kunstverlag AG, Zürich, Switzerland
– Obrist, Hans-Ulrich, ‘Yona Friedman. Hans Ulrich Obrist’, The Conversation series Band 7, Verlag der Buchhandler Walther König, Cologne, Germany
– ‘Yona Friedman: About Cities’, DRAWING PAPERS 68, New York, USA
– Busbea, Larry, Topologies. The Urban Utopia in France 1960-1970, The MIT Press, Cambridge, USA
– ‘On Theoretical Models’, Leonardo, Cambridge, USA, No. 2, pp.216-217
2006
– Yona Friedman. Pro Domo, Actar, Barcelona, Spain (translations in English, Spanish, Chinese)
– Camille Henrot and Yona Friedman: Réception / Transmission, with Camille Henrot, kamel menour, Paris, France
– Dis-assembly, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
-Basilico, Gabriele, Scattered City, Le Point du Jour, Baldini Castoldi Dalai Editore , Milan, Italy; Paris, France
2005
– Cities, Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Kitakyushu, Japan
– Manuel Orazi, Stefano Graziani, ‘Yona Friedman’s home in Paris’, Domus, Rozzano, Italy, November
– ‘Ville Spatiale over Milan Stadium’ Domus, Rozzano, Italy, April
– Schaik, Martin van, and Máčel, Otokar, Exit Utopia. Architectural provocations 1956-1976, Prestel, Munich, Germany
2004
– Vous avez un chien: c’est lui qui vous a choisi(e) / Yona Friedman and Balkis Berger-Doberman, Editions l’éclat, Paris, France
– Yona Friedman, (about Ville Spatiale Berlin), Point d’ironie, n° 35, Paris, France
2003
– L’architecture de survie. Une philosophie de la pauvreté, Editions l’éclat, Paris, France
– Utopies Réalisables, Editions l’éclat, Paris, France
– Pohlen, Annelie and the artists, un-built cities, exhibition catalogue Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (German and English)
2002
– The trompe-l’oeil universe, Centre for contemporary art (CCA), Kitakyushu, Japan
2001
– s.t. (about WTC, NY in connection with Documenta 11), Point d’ironie, n° 24, Paris, France
2000
– Utopies Réalisables, revised edition, Editions l’éclat, Paris, France (link to webtext)
– Théorie et images, Institut Français d’ Architecture, Paris, France
1999
– Lebesque, Sabine and Fentener van Vlissingen, Helene, Yona Friedman. Structures Serving the Unpredictable, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1997
Agricola, Esther, ‘Paris 1959. La Ville Spatiale’, Mastering the City: North European City Planning, 1900-2000, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1995
– Environment and self-reliance, with Eda Schaur, Communication Centre of Survival Knowledge (CCSK), Paris, France
For research:
http://www.vidyaonline.net/dl/environ.pdf
http://www.vidyaonline.net/books.php
1994
– L’ Univers erratique. Et si les lois de la nature ne suivaient aucune loi?, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, France
– Capitalisme social, essay about minimum wage for all citizens
– Théorie et images, Institut Français d’Architecture, Paris, France
– Ockman, Joan, Architecture Culture 1943-1968. A documentary Anthology, Rizzoli, New York, USA
1993
– ‘Scientific Theory as One of the Fine Arts’, Leonardo, Cambridge, USA, nr. 4, pp. 359-363
– ‘Special Section Introduction: Development through Images: An Introductory Remark’, Leonardo, Cambridge, USA, nr. 4, p. 333
1992
– ‘Aid for Development through Knowledge’, with Eda Schaur, Trialog, Nr. 34, Darmstadt, Germany, p.35-41
1991
– Roofs 1 and Roofs 2. Local materials, simple technology, sophisticated ideas, Manuals for self-help buildings, Collections ‘Etablissements humains et environment socio-culturel’, UNESCO, Paris, France
1990
– ‘Architecture for the people – Convivial Monuments’, with Eda Schaur, space + society, International journal of architecture, nr. 50, Milan, Italy, p.56–64
1989
– ‘Editorial: Art and Development’, Leonardo, Cambridge, USA, No. 2, pp.149-150
1988
– Hahn E., ‘Einfache Kommunikation – ein Weg zur Ökozivilisation, Siedlungsökologie’, Siedlungsökologie, Karlsruhe, Germany, p.217 – 225
1987
– ‘Museum of Simple Technology – A Tool for Development’, with Eda Schaur, space + society, International journal of architecture, nr. 40, Milan, Italy, p.86 – 93
1986
– Schneider, Rolf, ‘Wohn-Bau-Ökologie : Selbstorganisation als Konzept für Bauen, Wohnen, Leben’, preface by Yona Friedman, Fundamente alternativer Architektur, C.F. Müller, Karlsruhe, Germany
1986
– ‘Communication Centre of Scientific Knowledge for Self-Reliance’, Leonardo, Cambridge, USA, nr. 4, pp.333-336
– ‘Comments on “Signs, Systems, Structures, Space in Basic Architectural Design”’, Leonardo, Cambridge, USA, nr. 3, p.271
– A. Maller, ‘Reply to J. P. Bonta and Y. Friedman’, Leonardo, Cambridge, USA, No. 3, p.272
– Environment and Self Reliance, with Eda Schaur, New Delhi, India (sd, this year or before)
1984
Pierre Szeleky, ‘L ‘Architecture de Survie: où invente aujourd’hui le monde de demain. (The Architecture of Survival : where the world of tomorrow is invented today) by Yona Friedman’, Leonardo, Cambridge, USA, nr. 1, p.57
– Continent Ocean and Bateau Terre, manuals for La Villette Science Museum, Paris, France
– The Hope of Africa, manual with and for Edgard Pisani, former French Minister of Agriculture
– Community participation in the construction of educational buildings, UNESCO, Paris, France
1983
– Two manuscripts: La revolution silencieuse and La nouvelle physiocratie
1982
– Alternatives énergétiques ou la civilization paysanne modernisée. Pour une réelle économie des resources, comment désindustrialiser l’énergie, Editorial Dangles, Saint-Jean-de-Braye, France
– Alternatives Énergétiques. Plaidoyer pour une autosuffisance locale, Editorial Dangles, Saint-Jean-de-Braye, France
http://www.editions-dangles.com/upload/106/600/4/0/9782703308713.pdf (text)
1981
– A Policy for Design, text for conference on design, Helsinki
– ‘The Visual Arts and the Future’, Leonardo, Cambridge, USA, No. 4 (Autumn), p.310
1980
– Des villes pour vivre, manual and video produced for the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France (English translation)
– A better life in towns, the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France
– About critical group size, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan
– Toward a scientific architecture, The MIT Press, Cambridge, USA
– Popular Encyclopaedia for Survival, Immediate Education for Survival, over one hundred different manuals on food, housing, health-care, etc, in underdeveloped countries. Distributed throughout India via the local presses up to 1990 (some copies are available at the Getty Library).
1979
– La région, qu’est ce que c’est?, UNESCO, Paris, France
1978
– L’Architecture de survie, où s’invente aujourd’hui le monde de demain, Editions Casterman, Tournai-Paris, France
– L’ Architecture de survie. Une philosophie de pauvreté, Editions Casterman, Tournai-Paris, France
– Annalya Tou Bari, film scenario based on African legend, sequel to Animated Cartoons in 1960
1977
– No-Cost Housing, report for UNESCO Conference on low-cost housing in the Arab world
– Self-Design Institute, report sponsored by Sommer-Alibert Company, Paris, France
– SurvivaI Techniques, proposal for UNESCO, Paris, France
– Où commence la ville?, UNESCO, Paris, France. Collections Etablissements humains et environment socio-culturel
– The Quaternary Sector, analysis of and proposal on the status and division of labor in society
– Utopías realizables, with Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, Spain
1976
– Habitat= Ford + Roof and How to settle Earth, How to Live on Earth, manual financed by French Ministry of Environment, France
– Comment habiter la terre = How to settle on earth, Ministère de la qualité de la vie, Paris, France, Vancouver, Canada
– Utopies réalisables, Union générale d’éditions, Paris, France (Translations in German, Italian and Spanish)
1975
– ‘Environmental Psychology’, with Harold M. Proshansky, Leonardo, Cambridge, USA, nr. 1 (Winter), pp.93-94
– Pictogrammes de la genèse , Editions Pierre Belfond, Paris, France
– Une utopie réalisée, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
– Utopies réalisables, Christian Bourgois in the series 10/18, (translations in German and Spanish)
– Self-Supporting Society as a Response to Poverty, research for the United Nations
– Toward a scientific architecture, MIT Press, Cambridge, USA
– Votre ville est à vous, sachez comment la conserver, Council of Europe, Paris, France (translations in English and German)
– ‘Yona’, Architectural Design, London, UK
– It is your town – know how to protect it, Council of Europe, Paris, France
– Banham, Reyner, Megastructure. Urban Futures of the recent past, Thames&Hudson, London, UK
1974
– Comment vivre entre les autres sans être ensclave et sans être chef, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Paris, France. (translation in Spanish)
– Meine Fibel: wie die Stadtbewohner ihre Häuser und ihre Städte selber planen können, Bertelsmann Fachverlag Düsseldorf, Germany
– Gruppen, Netzwerke, Edition Rot, Stuttgart, Germany
– ‘Urban Carpet’, Architectural Design, London, UK
– ‘Les deux manuels de Yona Friedman’, L’ Express, Paris, France, February
1973
– Poor World and Critical Group-Size, two essays
– I want to design my home, manual explaining the theory of architecture scientifique in cartoons for children, commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture, Paris, France
– Hacia una arquitectura cientifica, Allianza Editorial, Madrid, Spain
– ‘Yona teaches the Kids’, Architectural Design, London, UK
1972
– Pour une architecture scientifique, Editions Pierre Belfond, Paris, France, (translations in English, Spanish, ltalian and Russian)
– Société = Environnement, Centre d’Études Architecturales (C.E.A.), Brussels, Belgium
– ‘Société: environnement’, Cahiers de l’environnement, nr 4, Paris, France
– ‘Berliner Kunstpreis’, Bauwelt, Berlin, Germany
– ‘On Models of Utopias and Social Ecology’, Leonardo, Cambridge, USA, No. 1 (Winter), pp. 37-41
– Slothouber, J., Graatsma, W., ‘Cubics’, Leonardo, Cambridge, USA, nr. 1 (Winter), p.83
1971
-‘Plug-in for a Pennine Casbah’, The Guardian, London, UK
-‘Pennine City’, Daily Express, London, UK
1970
– L’ Architecture Mobile, vers une cite conçue par ses habitants, Editions Casterman, Tournai-Paris, France (second edition in 1974), (Translations in Italian and Spanish)
-‘Le part de l’imagination’, Le Figaro Littéraire, Paris, France, February
-‘Aen demokratista miljörmaskinen’, Aftonbladet, Stockholm, Sweden
-‘Fantasir som werklighet’, Aftonbladet, Stockholm, Sweden
1968
– La planification urbaine, Centre d’Études Architecturales (C.E.A.), Brussels, Belgium
– Les mécanismes urbains, Centre d’Études Architecturales (C.E.A.), Brussels, Belgium
– ‘L’ art et la ville’, Leonardo, Cambridge, USA, Januari, pp.51-61
– ‘Erratum. L’ art et la ville’, Leonardo, Cambridge, USA, April, p.220
– ‘Air 2000’, Billed Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
1967
– ‘L’art et la ville’, Leonardo, Cambridge, USA, November 8
– ‘Une seule façon de sauver Paris’, Constellation, Paris, France, May
– ‘Research Program’, Architectural Design, London, UK
– ‘Architect Friedman ups Ford‘, Michigan Daily, Michigan, USA
– ‘Arkitekter Yona Friedman’, Arkitekten, Stockholm, Sweden
– ‘Ein Beispiel der Beschreibung’, Werk, Zürich, Switzerland
– ‘18 axes peuvent désembouteiller Paris?’, Le Figaro Littéraire, Paris, France, 31 December
1966
– Ragon, Michel, Les cités de l’avenir, Planète, Paris, France
– ‘Development over a Paris terminal’, Architectural Design, London, UK
– ‘Bygg en stat på bron över Öresund’, Aftonbladet, Stockholm, Sweden
1965
– Balladur, M., et. al., Les visionnaires de l’architecture, Laffont, Paris, France
– ‘L’urbanisme spatial’, Arts, June 9
– ‘Les visionairs de bon sens’, L’Express, Paris, France, July
1964
– First version of Pour une architecture scientifique, text based on a lecture series at University of Michigan, USA
– ‘Towards a Mobile Architecture’, Architectural Design, London, UK
– L’urbanisme comme système comprehensible’, Techniques et Architecture, Paris, France
– Ragon, Michel, L’urbanisme et la cité, Hachette, Paris, France
– ‘Trois villes-ponts relier Montréal à Tokyo’, Le Petit Journal, Montréal, Canada
– ‘Japan’, Architectural Design, London, UK, April
– ‘Yona Friedman. Gestaltungsprobleme des Gegenwartens’, Werk, Zürich, Switzerland
1963
– ‘Les Villes-ponts’, Techniques et Architecture, Paris, France
– The Year 2000, scenario for science-fiction film, published in Germany and Denmark
– Comprehensible Systems, paper on how the brain organizes information in order to comprehend it.
– Günther Kühne, ‘Die Brückenstadt über dem Ärmelkanal’, a concept created with Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz, Bauwelt, nr. 14-15, Berlin, Germany
– ‘Friedman’s Europe’, Architectural Review, London, UK
– ‘ A community to span the Channel’, The Guardian, London, UK
– ‘Organisation trinome de la vie urbaine’, Carré Bleu, Paris, France, January
– ‘Auf der Luft gebaut’, Der Spiegel, nr. 10, Hamburg, Germany, March
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-45142695.html
– ‘Manhattan ‘, Bauwelt, Berlin, Germany
– ‘Paris Spatial’, Bauen + Wohnen, Zürich, Switzerland, May
– ‘La ville à venir’, Werk, Zürich, Switzerland
1962
– ‘Paris Spatiale’, Architecture d’ Aujourd’hui, Paris, France
– ‘Urbanisme spatial au congrès d’Essen’, Architecture d’ Aujourd’hui, Paris, France
– ‘Im zweiten Stock’, Pariser Kurier, Paris, France
– Joachim, ‘Ohne Bart vor jungen Bärten’, Bauwelt, nr.26, Berlin, Germany
http://www.bauwelt.de/sixcms/media.php/829/bw_1962_26_730_Baukongress_Essen.386863.pdf
– ‘Yona Friedman: Urbanisme Mobile’, Architecture d’ Aujourd’hui, nr. 102, Paris, France
– ‘De zin van veel onzin’, De Groene Amsterdammer, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
– ‘L’ Architecture Mobile’, Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
– ‘Mobiele Stedebouw’, Het Parool, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
– ‘Leve de Vrijheid’, Haagse Post, The Hague, The Netherlands
– ‘Le festival des peuples’, Jeune Afrique, Paris, France
1961
– ‘L’ avenir des Services Collectifs’, Revue Technique du Bâtiment, Paris, France, March
– ‘Logements cylindriques’, Bâtir, April
– ‘La Terre entièrement couverte’, Bauwelt, Berlin, Germany
1960
– L’ Architecture Mobile. 10 principes d’urbanisme spatiale, an addition to the manifesto published in 1958, Les presses du reel, Paris
– ‘L’ architecture mobile’, Revue Technique du Bâtiment, Paris, France
– ‘Paris Spatial’, Revue Technique du Bâtiment, Paris, France
– ‘Pour un architecture mobile’, Revue Technique du Bâtiment, 3 editions, Paris, France
– ‘Programme d’ Actualité par l’Urbanisme Mobile’, Revue Technique du Bâtiment, Paris, France, November
– ‘Mobile Architecture’, Architectural Design, London, UK
– ‘Une art économique’, Afrique, September
– ‘Une architecture pour des milliards d’hommes’, Problème, nr. 96-1960
– ‘Urbanisme spatial’, Architecture d’ Aujourd’hui, Paris, France, March
1959
– ‘Programme 1960’, Techniques et Architecture, Paris, France
1958
-‘Mobiles Planen, Mobiles Bauen’, Bauwelt, Berlin, Germany
1957
– Published private cyclostyled edition of L’ Architecture Mobile
– ‘L’ Architecture Mobile’, Bauwelt, Berlin, Germany
http://www.bauwelt.de/cms/artikel.html?id=2811403#.T4bBX1E2-So
– ‘Ein Architekter-Versuch’, Bauwelt, Berlin, Germany
1950
-‘Yona Friedman et Renzo Voghera’, Architecture d’ Aujourd’hui, Paris, France