Pictograms, doodles and more from the radical exponent of "mobile
architecture"
A leading figure in the avant-garde architecture movements of the
postwar era, the Hungarian-born French architect, urban planner and
designer Yona Friedman (1923-2020) was best known for his theory of
"mobile architecture." This is the first catalog on Yona Friedman the
artist. It presents an extensive collection of visual materials,
including drawings, cartoons and pictograms, made by Friedman as a mode
of thinking deemed more efficient than language, and for pleasure.
"Drawing for my own pleasure meant that I enjoyed looking at my
drawings," he writes here, "and so I pasted them on the walls of my
home, of my studio, on furniture, and on the refrigerator. Indeed, I
produced them as the personal landscape of my surroundings, even
decorating the ceiling of my atelier at boulevard Pasteur and my home at
boulevard Garibaldi."