Documentation

ca 1963-1972 NB: We do not have a version fit for print of this image

Nicolas Schöffer visting Constant at Constant's new studio Wittenburg, 1963.

Accompanying Simon Vinkenoog to Constant's New Babylon). Lies Westenburg visits Constant at his studio with writer Simon Vinkenoog. Simon and Constant discuss the ideas behind the New babylon project. A film by Wim Smits (camera), Simon Vinkenoog (commentary), Lies Westenburg (director), 15 min, 1962.

Constant and his third wife Nel van Kerkhoven in Seville, 1962

The year is a rough estimate. Constant playing the guitar in his studio at the Henri Polaklaan 25 Amsterdam amidst of constructions and models. 

Constant playing guitar in his studio, ca 1962.

Constant with parrot at his studio surrounded by Infinite Line and Nébulose Mécanique, 1962.

Discipline or invention? unpublished manuscript for students of the Pratt-Institute, New York, 1962. Published in M. Wigley, Constant’s New Babylon. The Hyper-Architecture of Desire, Rotterdam 1998, p. 142.

ca 1962 NB: We do not have a version fit for print of this image

Neo-Babylone in L’architecture d’aujourd’hui, vol. 33, nº 102, 1962, p. 77

New Babylon in Randstad nº 2, 1962, p. 127-128.

Constant and Simon Vinkenoog sitting behind Big yellow sector, 1962. NB: Not available in high res!  

Simon Vinkenoog and Constant, 1962 NB: Not available in high res! Contact the Bram Wisman estate for a high resolution image.

TV recording with Simon Vinkenoog in 1962.