Text by Constant

Text catalogue exhibition Neue Tendenzen der Architektur, Bern, Kunsthalle, 1966.Or more probable: Licht und Bewegung / Kinetische Kunst/ Neue Tendenzen der Architektur, 30 July – 5 September 1965, Bern Kunsthalle

In De dialektiek van het experiment (The Dialectic of the Experiment) Constant looks back at the preceding period in his career and the radical transformation that took place in his artistic development during the 1950s. He declares that while he can visualize ‘unitary urbanism’, the present state of society is fundamentally different from the societal situation essential to the realization of such a revolutionary programme. Consequently, unitary urbanism remains limited to isolated experiments and a programme.

New Babylon: een schets voor een cultuur is an Dutch adaptation of an original German manuscript in collaboration with Caspari translated and adjusted by Constant. A summary of the Dutch text was published in 1974 in the exhibition catalogue at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Neither the original Dutch text of 125 pages nor the German manuscript of 165 pages was ever published as a whole until 2021.

Phantastische Architektur (Fantastical Architecture) in Speculum Artis. Zeitschrift für alte und neue Kunst, vol. 17, nº 4, April 1965, p. 17-22.

 Lecture at the Conference for the Students Association at the Royal Academy Copenhagen. 

A lecture by Constant at the Art Academy in Copenhagen on March 12th, 1964 translated in Danish for Signum, year 4, nr. 3, 1964.

Constant. Nieuw Babylon over ’s Gravenhage in Cobouw, 25 September 1964, p. 4-5.

New Babylon in Signum. Tidsskrift for moderne kunst, nº 4, 1964, p. 23-30.

Text in catalogue of exhibition New Babylon. Imaginäre Stadt­land­schaften, Krefeld, Museum Haus Lange, 1964.New Babylon: Imaginäre Stadtlandschaften in cat. of the exhibition Constant 1945-1983, Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, 1986, p. 41-44.

New Babylon: an Urbanism of the Future in Architectural Design, vol. 34, nº 6, June 1964, p. 304-305.

New-Babylon: Skizze zu ein Kultur is an original German manuscript in collaboration with Caspari translated and adjusted by Constant. A summary of the Dutch text was published in 1974 in the exhibition catalogue at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Neither the original Dutch text of 125 pages nor the German manuscript of 165 pages was ever published as a whole until 2021.

Nya Babylon in Paletten, vol. 25, nº 2, Copenhagen, 1964, p. 56-61.Ny Babylon in Arkitekten. Meddelelser fra Danske Arkitekters Landsforbund, vol. 66, nº 13, June 1964, p. 280-284.

Opkomst en ondergang van de avant-garde (Rise and fall of the avant-garde) in Randstad, nº 8, 1964, p. 6-35. Shorter version published in Nieuw Beelden Bulletin, November 1965. English translation: The Revolution of Creative Man in New Babylon Informatief nr. 4, 1966

Sculpto Urbanisme in Cobouw, 19 December 1964, p. 13.

A lecture by Constant with an introduction by Victor Pasmore at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, 17/18 Dover Street, W.1., London, November 7, 1963 8.15 PM. The original announcement is at the Tate Archive and Public Records Catalogue, no. TGA 8228/11.

Constant and C. Caspari in cat. of the exhibition New Babylon. Tekeningen 1961-1962, Rotterdam, Galerie Delta, 1963.

A lecture sent to the students of Pratt Institute in 1962. Published in Mark Wigley's book Constant's New Babylon - The Hyper-Architecture of Desire [1998]. 

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.

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.