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2008 Megastructure Reloaded-Hantje Cantz

Megastructure Reloaded

Visionary Architecture and Urban Design of the Sixties Reflected by Contemporary Artists
2008

CID

7748

Catalogue with exhibition with similar title at Ehemalige Staatliche Münze from September 20 till November w, 2008. Urban designs such as Plug-in City by Archigram, La Ville Spatiale by Yona Friedman, and the New Babylon by former CoBrA painter Constant were some of the architectural incunabula of the sixties. Architecture, pop culture, art, and rebellion were uniquely combined with the visions of the Metastructuralists. Megastructure Reloaded inquires into their relevance for today’s urban planning problems and presents detailed information about the protagonists of this movement in texts and images. It features historical precedents, such as the Soviet ribbon cities, as well as the ironic replies to them by the radical groups Superstudio and Archizoom. The volume is rounded off with texts on Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer, and Lucio Costa and their planned cities of Chandigarh and Brasilia , as well as a theory section on megastructures and megacities. Between each chapter is a “plug-in” - contributions from eleven internationally renowned artists that explore the ideas and concepts of the sixties and the problems of real megacities.

Editor

Sabrina van der Ley | Markus Richter

Author(s)

Sabrina van der Ley
Markus Richter

Translator

Stefan Barmann | Deborah Anna Bowen | Jennifer Reed Dillon | Steph Morris | Linda Turner

Publisher

Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin

ISBN

978 3 7757 2216 2

Language

English | German

Type

Catalog