Architecture

[Use this link to go to the overview of the themes at Balkis Productions.]

UNE MUSÉE DANS UNE VIGNE, POURQUOI PAS? (French)
Yona Friedman : “A funny proposal”
(On the idea that art can be exhibited anywhere, so it’s the location that is the museum, not the designated building.)

CONTRIBUTION TO THE EXHIBITION (English)
Yona Friedman: “Some examples to ‘architecture without building’.”
(On techniques to create space without building.)

ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT BUILDING (English)
(Appeal to reconsider the necessity of creating buildings.)

A MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (English)
Yona Friedman: “Idea for the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art”
(On how to use space-chain structures for exhibiting art and artifacts.)

VILLE SPATIALE (film with English comment by Friedman)
(Short documentary explaining how to build a space-chain structure, showing the installation presented at the Art Basel in 2010. See also the slide shows: ‘Architecture without building’, ‘A Museum for Modern Art’ and  the project on this website ‘Iconostase’)

IT IS NOT ONLY THE CITY-SCAPE THAT CHANGES (English)
(On human connections, city networks, network cities flexible spaces.)

SPACE CHAINS (English)
(An instruction on how to make space-chain structures)

WHO DOES CREATE URBAN SPACE? (English)
(On how public space can have many temporary functions without building(s).)

METROPOLE EUROPE (English)
(How with a payable high speed train net, cities become the suburbs of each other.)

1950-2000 LIFE CONDITION (English)
(A megalopolis without building: Metropole Europe)