Friedman developed a special interest in the creation and functioning of cultural spaces. Initially, this interest led to the design of multi-functional buildings where the public domain often was part of the structure.
Champs-Élysées in Paris (France) transformed into a huge open air site, staging all sorts of activities. Yona Friedman, 2004
Later he studied the issue of how to supplement the public domain with cultural space or how to transform it into (temporary) cultural space. This led him to experiment with exhibitions in shopping windows and creating ‘democratic’ space like the ‘Street Museum’, where neighbors may show their special items of interest to each other.
He also thought out how to transform a broad boulevard like the Champs-Élysées in Paris (France) into a huge open air site for all sorts of staged activities. His invention of creating random flexible structures with the ‘Space Chain’ technique has lately been adopted by the museum world to create exhibition space . Friedman coined the title ‘Iconostase’ for this project.
Projects
–House of Parliament, Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), 1967
–Centre Pompidou, 1970
–Opera House Paris, 1982
–Museum without Doors, 1987
–Green Church, 1988
–Passerelle de Musée, 1988
–Tokyo International Forum, 1989
–Teatro Piranesi, 1990
–Musée 21 Century, 1999
–Museum Modern Art Bruxelles, 2000
–Milano Pyramid, 2000
–Paris Olympic, 2004
–Musée de Rue, 2004
–Musée des Graffitis, étude, 2006
–Iconostase, from 2006
–Museum of Afghan Civilization, 2008
Part of these links you can also reach under Cultural Space (II)
Related projects and studies
–Art in the street, 1975
–Umbrella for Les Halles, 1969
–Bicentennial French Revolution, 1989
–Urban voids, 1964, 1970, 2006
–Variations on a façade with no structure, 1970
–Musée de Rue, Como (Italy), 2008