TY  - BOOK
AU  - Busbea, Larry
TI  - Topologies : the urban utopia in France, 1960-1970
SN  - 0262026112
U1  - 711.40944 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Massachusetts,Cambridge etc
PB  - MIT Press
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N1  - ACKNOWLEDGMENTS  viii INTRODUCTION  2 1. SPATIAL CULTURE IN FRANCE, 1960-1970  9 Looking Ahead  14 A Median World  16 The Topological Utopia  23 The Shape of Theory  27 2. SPATIAL URBANISM AND MOBILE ARCHITECTURE  33 Spatial Urbanism  36 Leisure and Mobility  55 Yona Friedman and the Groupe d'Etudes d'Architecture Mobile 62 The International Context  74 3THE CONCEPTION AND RECEPTION OF THE GROUPE INTERNATIONAL D'ARCHITECTURE PROSPECTIVE  81 GIAP  82 The Composite City  91 Rhetoric and Reception  94 Neo-avant-garde  100 4 PARIS SUR PARIS: SPATIAL URBANISM AND PROSPECTIVE PLANNING CULTURE 107 The Crisis of Modernism in France 112 Prospective Paris 119 Spatial Paris 122 5  TOPOLOG/CAL POLEMICS 139 Space Frames-a Selective History 143 Topology and the Space Frame 152 The Urban Frame 154 Architecture Principe and the Anti-Space Frame 160 6  INTEGRATIONS 169 From Synthesis to the Integration of the Arts 170 Ambient Space and Plastic Language 175 An Object World 180 CONCLUSION 188 NOTES 192 INDEX 220
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