We present the video of the interview made to José Juan Barba by Emmanuele Lo Giudice on the figure of Yona Friedman.
The interview was held in Madrid in the winter of 2014 on the occasion of the exhibitions on the French architect and urbanist who took place the same year in the COAM and in the School of Architecture of the University of Alcalá.

Yona Friedman, a French architect who despite having no built work, is one of the most important and influential figures of the twentieth century. For his graphic utopian discourse, he might be compared to Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

Yona Friedman is recognized by José Juan Barba as one of the pioneers of the twentieth century, who was ahead of his time and proposed ideas and projects that have been developed by others after decades. Friedman reconsidered the metropolitan character of architecture, his projects re-interpret the contemporary city, establishing a dialogue with the existing city. In his social utopias on Mobile Architecture he reflects on the ownership of land and citizen participation. Barba emphasizes his interventions in the great cities of the world based on the union and suppression of the borders within a geopolitical context of separation and rupture. Among Friedman's proposals stands out the colonization of Manhattan, as a recognition of the city of the twentieth century, a vision that later found echo in the works of Archigram, Rem Koolhas or Bernard Tschumi.

A tour with José Juan Barba through the trajectory and revolutionary ideas of an emblematic French architect, Yona Friedman.
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Emmanuele Lo Giudice (Palermo, Italia, 1975) es arquitecto y artista italiano, ha participado en diversas importantes exposiciones y festivales internacionales de arte y arquitectura en Italia, Suiza, Venezuela, Alemania, España y Colombia:FESTARCH de Perugia 2011; Hamburg Art Week 2012; Museo de Arquitectura Leopoldo Rother de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia en Bogota, la Casa Velasquez en Madrid,  la Universidad de Arquitectura de Venecia IUAV y ARCHIZOOM en Lausanne.

Desde el año 2010, Yona Friedman junto con Emmanuele Lo Giudice han desarrollado algunos projectos, analizando especialmente el tema del museo y llegando a soluciones aún más radicales con respecto a otros proyectos de Friedman, estudiando los siguientes proyectos: Venice Street Museum 2012; Perugia Street Museum 2011, Venice; The Museum of Civilization 2010.

El trabajo de Emmanuele Lo Giudice es de carácter multidisciplinar, donde la arquitectura, el dibujo, la fotografía y el ready-made se convierten en los instrumentos de análisis crítico de la arquitectura y de la ciudad.  Sus trabajos han sido adquiridos para el importante Archivio Progetti IUAV de Venecia y algunos de sus obras y artículos han sido publicados en ABITARE y por SKIRA.

La idea central en estos proyectos es que la tierra está sobre-construida, por lo tanto lo que se requiere no son más edificios, sino aprender a administrar de manera creativa el espacio con el que contamos. Se entiende así la arquitectura y el urbanismo como marcos para la vida y la creatividad humana. Se cuestiona el protagonismo que puede llegar a tener el edificio, permitiendo que éste se imponga ante el espectador y compita directamente con la exposición. Museos públicos, de bajo presupuesto, que no tienen necesariamente que ser edificios, sino un despliegue visual y una transformación conceptual de esta nueva forma de admirar el espacio, un museo enfocado al contenido y administración de un espacio no construido.

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José Juan Barba (1964) architect from ETSA Madrid in 1991. Special Mention in the National Finishing University Education Awards 1991. PhD in Architecture ETSAM, 2004. He founded his professional practice in Madrid in 1992 (www.josejuanbarba.com). He has been an architecture critic and editor-in-chief of METALOCUS magazine since 1999, and he advised different NGOs until 1997. He has been a lecturer (in Design, Theory and Criticism, and Urban planning) and guest lecturer at different national and international universities (Roma TRE, Polytechnic Milan, ETSA Madrid, ETSA Barcelona, UNAM Mexico, Univ. Iberoamericana Mexico, University of Thessaly Volos, FA de Montevideo, Washington, Medellin, IE School, U.Alicante, Univ. Europea Madrid, UCJC Madrid, ESARQ-U.I.C. Barcelona,...).

Maître de Conférences IUG-UPMF Grenoble 2013-14. Full assistant Professor, since 2003 up to now at the University of Alcalá School of Architecture, Madrid, Spain. And Jury in competitions as Quaderns editorial magazine (2011), Mies van der Rohe Awards, (2010-2024), Europan13 (2015). He has been invited to participate in the Biennale di Venezia 2016 as part "Spaces of Exception / Spazi d'Eccezione".

He has published several books, the last in 2016, "#positions" and in 2015 "Inventions: New York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi " and collaborations on "Spaces of Exception / Spazi d'Eccezione", "La Mansana de la discordia" (2015), "Arquitectura Contemporánea de Japón: Nuevos territorios" (2015)...

Awards.-

- Award. RENOVATION OF SEGURA RIVER ENVIRONMENT, Murcia, Sapin, 2010.
- First Prize, RENOVATION GRAN VÍA, “Delirious Gran Vía”, Madrid, Spain, 2010.
- First Prize, “PANAYIOTI MIXELI Award”. SADAS-PEA, for the Spreading of Knowledge of Architecture Athens, 2005.
- First Prize, “SANTIAGO AMÓN Award," for the Spreading of Knowledge of Architecture. 2000.
- Award, “PIERRE VAGO Award." ICAC -International Committee of Art Critics. London, 2005.
- First Prize, C.O.A.M. Madrid, 2000. Shortlisted, World Architecture Festival. Centro de Investigación e Interpretación de los Ríos. Tera, Esla y Orbigo, Barcelona, 2008.
- First Prize. FAD AWARD 07 Ephemeral Interventions. “M.C.ESCHER”. Arquin-Fad. Barcelona, Sapin 2007.

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Yona Friedman was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1923, and pass away Paris, France, February 21, 2020. He studied at the Technical University in Budapest (Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem) and in Haifa. His work has spanned areas ranging from architecture, art and animated film to education and writing. He has participated in numerous art biennials including Shanghai, Venice and Documenta 11. His highly visionary ideas have nurtured various generations of architects and urbanists, influencing groups such as Archigram and even Kenzo Tange, who declared as such in 1970 in Osaka.

In 1956 he published L'architecture mobile, his manifesto which conceived of an urban structure on piles, appropriate for spaces where building is not possible or permitted. This also became the foundational document of the GEAM, Groupe d'étude d'architecture mobile. He created urban concepts such as the Spatial City, based on the free organisation of a city by citizens using low-cost mobile and reusable modules. In 1965 he founded, together with Ionel Schein, Walter Jonas and others, the GIAP, Groupe International d'Architecture Prospective.

From the 1960’s he also became interested in animated film making which would lead him to propose a series of do-it-yourself construction manuals with simple pictograms addressing basic questions, which we could summarise under the title L´habitat c’est mon affaire. Comment habiter la terre (Habitat is my business: how to inhabit the earth). These were edited by the United Nations and given broad distribution in India, South America and Africa.

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Published on: March 12, 2017
Cite: "On Yona Friedman a conversation with José Juan Barba" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/yona-friedman-a-conversation-jose-juan-barba> ISSN 1139-6415
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