Constant’s New Babylon

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Accompanying the first large presentation of the New Babylon project since 1974 at Witte de With, from 21 November 1998 to 10 January 1999.

5000 copies; English
Design Bureau Piet Gerards
size: 28,5 x 25 cm; 256 pages, 277 black-and-white and 57 color images
ISBN 90-6450-3435
Price € 47,50
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Contents:
Introduction by Bartomeu Marí
Texts by:
Mark Wigley, “The hyper-Architecture of Desire;”
Constant Nieuwenhuys, “Spatial Colorism (1952),” “From Collaboration To Absolute Unity Among The Plastic Arts (1955),” “Tomorrow Life Will Reside in Poetry (1956),” “Inaugural Report to the Munich Conference (1959),” “The Great Game to Come (1959),” “Another City for Another Life (1959),” “Description of the Yellow Sector (1960),” “Unitary Urbanism (1960),” “Discipline or Invention? (1962),” “New Babylon: Outline of a Culture (1974),” “New Urbanism (1966),” “About the Meaning of Construction (1966),” ” On Travelling (1966),” “A Few Propositions Concerning The Concepts ‘Face Of The Earth,’ ‘Urban Development,’ and ‘Art’ (1971),” “Autodialogue on New Babylon (1971),” “The Principle of Disorientation (1973),” ” New Babylon (1980);”
Guy Debord, “Constant and the Path of Unitary Urbanism (1959)”
New Babylon biography and bibliography

Published in collaboration with Mark Wigley and 010 Uitgevers, Rotterdam, www.010publishers.nl.

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