Key writings and projects from the group of architects,
sociologists, and urbanists known as Utopie. "When the imagination
reaches and oversteps the boundaries authorized by the institution
of culture, we speak of poetry, of utopia.... When the event
reaches and oversteps the boundaries authorized by judicial law and
by the anomic rules, we speak of revolution."-Rene Lourau The
short-lived grouping of architects, sociologists, and urbanists
known as Utopie, active in Paris from 1967 to 1978, was the product
of several factors: the student protests for the reform of
architectural education, the unprecedented expansion and replanning
of the Parisian urban fabric carried out by the government of
Charles de Gaulle, and the domestication of military and industrial
technologies by an emerging consumer society. The group's
collaborative publications included the work of Jean Aubert,
Isabelle Auricoste, Jean Baudrillard, Catherine Cot, Charles
Goldblum, Jean-Paul Jungmann, Henri Lefebvre, Rene Lourau, Antoine
Stinco, and Hubert Tonka. Offering a militant alternative to
professional urban planning journals, these writers not only
formulated a critique of the technocratic and administrative rule
over a disabled and alienated urban society but also projected an
ephemeral urban poetics. With ties to the Ecole Nationale
Superieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) in central Paris and to the
sociology department established by Henri Lefebvre at the suburban
campus of Nanterre, the group challenged postwar modernization and
urban planning and questioned the roles into which architects,
sociologists, and urban planners had been cast. Utopie makes the
group's diverse body of theoretical work accessible in English for
the first time, offering translations of more than twenty key
texts. Designed in a facsimile format that follows the innovative
graphic layouts of the journals, pamphlets, posters, and articles
produced by Utopie, the volume not only provides the first thorough
overview of the group's activities but also seeks to capture
Utopie's linkage of architectural and urban theory to radical
publication strategies.
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