m participation based on free delivered opinions. Architects have to coach
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people instead of predict their way of thinking. This philosophy comes to
surface in the space<hain artwork Iconostase 150, bought in 2012 by the
Middelburg based Museum De Vleeshal. This piece of art with 482 steel ring
tubes of 0 21,3 mm and a diameter of 150cm measures 30,5x 8,60x5,40m.
The ring tubes form repeatedly together three geometric figures which are
connected to each other in a contingent way (a spherical pyramid, cube and a
regular polyhedron). Any space can be filled in with this kind of constellation.
This flexibility corresponds with the call of the originator, to leave the existing
thinking frames behind you and to explore new possible spaces in problem
solving. This will certainly lead to cooperation between individuals who
are willing to create a better world. And, by means of this artwork either
collectives or individuals, all people are invited and encouraged to develop
their creative thoughts in favour of their society
Noten
1. Sabine Lebesque, Helene Fentener van Vlissingen, Yona Friedman, structures serving the
unpredictable (Rotterdam 1999), 96.
2. Lebesque, Yona Friedman, structures serving the unpredictable, 79.
3. Hans Ulrich Obrist, Yona Friedman (Köln 2007), 125.
4. Yona Friedman: 'C' est Ia raison d' être de 1' architecture mobile. Bien entendu, le terme T
architecture mobile' ne signifie pas la mobilité des constructions en leur totalité, mais leur
disponibilité pour tous usages d 'une société mobile'. In: L' Architecture Mobile (Paris 1958),
13.
5. Le Corbusier's architectuur kende vijf uitgangspunten, waaronder La fagade libre, Le plan
libre en Les pilotis.
6. Yona Friedman, No-Cost Housing; Survival techniques (UNESCO 1976).
7. Yona Friedman, Het is uw stad - Weet hem te beschermen (Raad van Europa 1975),1-105.
8. Het Lycée David d'Angers, Angers (1978) en Museum of Simple Technology in Madras (India)
(1982) zijn volgens deze methode door de lekengebruikers gerealiseerd.
Een gefilmd interview met Yona Friedman is te vinden op:
9. http://www.archined.nl/en/interviews/2012/architv-yona-friedman-you-are-obliged-to-stay-
mainstream/
10. http://www.yonafriedman.nl/
11. Obrist, Yona Friedman (Köln 2007), 63.
12. Lebesque, Yona Friedman, structures serving the unpredictable, 11.
13. Obrist, Yona Friedman, 54.
14. Sarah Deyong, 'Memories of the urban future: the rise and fall of the megastructures', in:
Museum of Modern Art New York, red., The changing of the avant-garde, visionary architecture
drawings from the Howard Gillman Collections (New York 2003), 23-36, aldaar 30.
15. Op de Biënnale van Venetië 2009 heeft Friedman La Ville Spatiale getoond. Een space<hain
grid in de vorm van een reusachtig net was tegen een hoog plafond opgehangen, en deels
gevuld met kartonnen dozen. Die dozen verwezen naar de gebouwen in de fantasiestad.
Bezoekers van deze 'stad' zullen zich eronder nietig hebben gevoeld. http://www.
yonafriedman.nl/?page_id=1219&wppa-album=108&wppa-photo=968&wppa-occur=l
16. Tim Abrahams, 'Interview Yona Friedman', Blueprint, London's magazine of design
architecture and style (July 2009), 40-44, aldaar 44.
17. Abrahams, Interview»>Yona Friedman, 40-44, aldaar 43.
