From March 10th to June 17th, for the exhibition “Yona Friedman, les villes imaginées” hosted at the Rochechouart Museum, the utopian architect imagines a journey through some realizations at building scale. These installations, improvised on site thanks to cheap materials (aluminium wires, paperboards etc…), will allow to (re)discover this œuvre in perpetual movement. 

Born in 1923 in Hungary, Yona Friedman develops since more than 60 years a vision on architecture and more widely on society and the way to live together. His holistic thoughts still echo nowadays: loss of naturals ressources, overpopulation, impoverishment, ecological concerns, transformation of housing environment and of landscape. Iconic figure of architecture and contemporary art, Yona Friedman defends the concept of a doable utopia.

The exhibition will also give space to to Yona Friedman’s writings, and particularly to his willingness of popularise his reflexion by using the comic strips (employed for example in a series of manuals diffused by the Unesco in the 70’s) and to the poetic and philosophic dimension of his work.

During the exhibition, the museum will present the movie Yona Friedman, un habitant indiscipliné, produced in 2017 by the Huit and the CNEAI with the contribution of the MDAC de Rochechouart.

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