Megastructure Reloaded
Visionary Architecture and Urban Design of the Sixties Reflected by Contemporary Artists = Visionäre Stadtentwürfe der Sechzigerjahre Reflektiert von Zeitgenössischen Künstler
ed. by Sabrina van der Ley, Markus Richter

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Editor(s)

Sabrina van der Ley, Markus Richter

Publication

Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008

Scope

286 Pages, illustrated, 26 cm.

ISBN

9783775722162

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This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Megastructure Reloaded at Ehemalige Staatliche Münze, Berlin,20. September - 2. November 2008. Fueled by a dissatisfaction with existing architectural solutions and an infusion of pop culture, art and rebellion, utopian urban proposals from the 1960s, such as Archigram's Plug-in City - Yona Friedman's La Ville Spatiale and New Babylon by former CoBrA painter, Constant, constitute a template for the concept of the megastructure-a city encased in one large structure or series of structures. 'Megastructure Reloaded' posits the megastructure as a fix for contemporary urban architectural problems.

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Person as subject

Archigram, Constant, Yona Friedman, Superstudio, Ryan Gander, Gorden Matta-Clark ...[et al.]

Keywords

urban planning , future scenario's

Location

Cabinet 17 - 5: Urbanisme

Extra themes

Architecture and Art

Remarks

Incl. Bibliographical References