Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire
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Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire is a critical study and exhibition catalog that analyzes Constant Nieuwenhuys’s visionary New Babylon project, exploring its radical ideas about architecture, play, and a future nomadic society.
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Target entity: Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire Context triple: [Mark Wigley, notableWork, Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire]
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Promise of the Real
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The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion
The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion is a critical study of contemporary American architecture in which Ada Louise Huxtable examines how commercialism, spectacle, and theme-park aesthetics have distorted the built environment and our experience of it.
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Target entity: Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire Target entity description: Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire is a critical study and exhibition catalog that analyzes Constant Nieuwenhuys’s visionary New Babylon project, exploring its radical ideas about architecture, play, and a future nomadic society.
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A.
Promise of the Real
Promise of the Real is an American rock band led by Lukas Nelson, known for its roots-rock sound and frequent collaborations and touring with Neil Young.
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B.
Travels in Hyperreality
Travels in Hyperreality is a collection of essays by Umberto Eco that explores themes of simulation, mass culture, and the blurring of reality and illusion in contemporary society.
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C.
Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity
Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity is a philosophical work that critiques the rationalist foundations of modern Western thought and argues for a more historically grounded, human-centered understanding of reason and modernity.
-
D.
One-Dimensional Man
One-Dimensional Man is a 1964 philosophical critique by Herbert Marcuse that analyzes how advanced industrial societies create conformist, "one-dimensional" thinking that undermines genuine freedom and critical consciousness.
-
E.
The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion
The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion is a critical study of contemporary American architecture in which Ada Louise Huxtable examines how commercialism, spectacle, and theme-park aesthetics have distorted the built environment and our experience of it.
- F. None of above. chosen
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book
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critical study ⓘ exhibition catalog ⓘ |
| about |
Situationist International context
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anti-capitalist urban visions ⓘ collective creativity ⓘ future urban life ⓘ hyper-architecture ⓘ ludic society ⓘ nomadism ⓘ postwar avant-garde ⓘ radical ideas about architecture ⓘ social space ⓘ |
| analyzesWorkOf | Constant Nieuwenhuys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contextualizes |
New Babylon within avant-garde architecture
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New Babylon within postwar European culture ⓘ New Babylon within radical politics ⓘ |
| examines |
New Babylon architectural maquettes
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New Babylon maps and plans ⓘ New Babylon models and drawings ⓘ New Babylon paintings and collages ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
architecture as framework for play
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automation and free time ⓘ city as continuous interior ⓘ collective construction of space ⓘ desire and spatial experience ⓘ nomadic movement through megastructures ⓘ |
| focusesOn | visionary urban project New Babylon ⓘ |
| genre |
architectural theory
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art criticism ⓘ exhibition catalog ⓘ |
| hasForm | illustrated catalog ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
art historians
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general readers interested in utopian architecture ⓘ scholars of architecture ⓘ students of urban theory ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Constant Nieuwenhuys
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New Babylon NERFINISHED ⓘ architecture ⓘ nomadic society ⓘ play ⓘ utopian urbanism ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Constant Nieuwenhuys’s theoretical writings
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New Babylon project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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