{"id":12281,"date":"2014-11-20T12:36:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T11:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meonline.hu\/?p=12281"},"modified":"2014-11-20T12:36:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T11:36:18","slug":"a-varos-mint-vizio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meonline.hu\/en\/magyar-epitomuveszet-hirek\/a-varos-mint-vizio\/","title":{"rendered":"The City as a Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Homage to Michel Ragon
\nFRAC Centre, Orl\u00e9ans, 19 September 2014 \u2013 22 February 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Architects: Dominique Jakob, Brendan MacFarlane<\/strong>
\nText: Gy\u00f6rgy Szeg\u0151 <\/strong>
\nPhotos: Diane Arques, Nicolas Borel, Gy\u00f6rgy Szeg\u0151 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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A philosophical concept 2,000 years ago, the idea of a planned city has been more like a literary utopia in the past 500 years. Since more than a century it has also been an architectural vision too. In the 1950s, under the climate of the cold war, Western architects broke away from functionalism and the dictates of socialist utopias, and initiated a radical redefinition of the concept of a city. They made in-depth research into the social mutations of the contemporary capitalist world in order to project and organize Western lifestyle and the global system with an appropriate \u201eurban model\u201d.
\nThe historic section of the exhibition includes works by Pierre Sz\u00e9kely amongst other authors such as Peter Cook, the Archigram\u2019s chief figure, Architecture Principe (Claude Parent \u2013 Paul Virilio), Archizoom Associati, Chan\u00e9ac, Haus-R\u00fccker-Co and Hans Hollein, Arata Isozaki, Aldo Loris Rossi, Paolo Soleri, Iannis Xenakis as well as Superstudio or Z\u00fcnd up. In the section representing the present and the future we can see designs by Jean Nouvel, Hani Rashid, Dominique Perrault, Foster + Partners, Sou Fujimoto Architects, BIG, Delhi 2050, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, OMA, The Petropolis of Tomorrow, SN\u00d8HETTA and the utopias by Urban Think Tank, amongst many others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t