Yona Friedman Pro Domo

To the memory of my father

Contents

Universitats- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt

Pro domo 9 Interview with myself 26 Comments on my work 48 Notes at the bottom of the page 56

Ten principles of mobile town planning 65 A complement of the ten principles of mobile town planning 70 Softening the city 72 Continent cities 75 Cities in the 3rd millennium 97 Some afterthoughts on the WTC attack 109

chapter 1 Genesis of an idea

chapter 2 The city

On theoretical models 113 On interpretation 118 Interpretation of the city 126

The Flatwriter: choice by computer 129 About the Flatwriter 137 ISEA2000 139

chapter 3 Theories at large

chapter 4 Methods

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The quaternary sector 147 Arguments for a poor world 172 Two ways 182 Towards a Policy of Urban Survival 186 Urban agriculture 192 Green architecture 194

chapter 5 Survival

Structures without rules and their implementation in architecture 205 Irregular structures 214

Paris Olympique 253 Venezia Nuova 260 Huangpu River Center, Shanghai 262 Ville spatiaie with Venice Biennale panel 268 A museum for the 21st century 270 A museum which changes with every new exhibition 274 A proposal concerning New York 278 Tel-Aviv Peace-bridge 282 The "umbrella" of Les Halles 284 Berlin 288 Art exhibition for the year 2000, Brussels 294 Ville spatiaie over Milan Stadium 296 New route through the medina, Tunis 298 Monte-Carlo 300 Development over a Paris terminal 304 Railway stations 308 Nancy 310 Paris Spatial 312

chapter 6 r Irregular Structures

chapter 7 Projects, new and old