Mark Wigley   A smaller number of unbuilt projects haunt architectural discourse as provocations. They are like ghosts that never fully leave the conversation – fading from view sometimes only to be rediscovered by another generation of architects, and rediscovere

Julia Ramírez Blanco   The Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid hosts a major exhibition on New Babylon, Constant’s utopia based on emancipation, technology, and play.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   At first sight, the situationist New Babylon and the spontaneous cities of Archigram belong to opposite universes: the archipelago of fragments into which the phsychogeography of Guy Debord transforms Paris, or the tortuous branches of Constant’s uto

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The most radical utopias of the second half of the 20th century have ended up converging with the theme city. In a world colonized by technical reason and mass entertainment, the popular demand for leisure and fantasy has crystallized in childish cop

Mark Wigley   1960. 20 de diciembre. 20:15 horas. Amsterdam. Una sala repleta en el Museo Stedelijk espera al artista de 40 años Constant Nieuwenhuys. Detrás del público se han situado un proyector de diapositivas y un magnetófono. Constant entra, se queda junto a

Constant Nieuwenhuys   Madrid  2015  
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