Theorist

Yona Friedman

1923–2020

Fantasy Infrastructure Collectivity

Details

Nationality: Hungarian-French

Notes

Author of L'architecture mobile (1958) and the Ville Spatiale: a massive multi-level space-frame above existing cities in which inhabitants determine their own dwellings. Note on sources: the 1958 'L'architecture mobile' was a privately circulated early manifesto (c.10 copies, not formally published); the standard bibliographic reference is the 1970 Casterman edition.

Connections

authored Ville Spatiale (Spatial City) / L'architecture mobile

Sources

Yona Friedman. L'architecture mobile. 1958.
Yona Friedman. L'architecture mobile: vers une cité conçue par ses habitants. Casterman, 1970.

Cite this entry

First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026

CLAD. "Yona Friedman." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/yona-friedman/. Accessed July 17, 2026.