Babylon

position

Nebuchadnezzar and Babylon
Schweich Lectures of the British Academy 1983
D. J. Wiseman
Oxford University Press; 1991

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May 21, 2007

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Who is Vedran Mimica?
From May 24 to June 10, Rotterdam will be the centre of the international architecture world, says Vedran Mimica. Who is Vedran Mimica? And what is his relation to the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam? ArchiNed spoke to him.
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Born? In 1954 in Zagreb, then part of Yugoslavia. Study? I studied architecture at the University of Zagreb. Like so many young architects I entered competitions after graduation, among them a competition to design a monu…

July 2, 2005

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Exit Utopia
Exit Utopia, Architectural Provocations 1956-1976 is the title of a recently published book of projects, texts, interviews and critiques pertaining to the most important visionary projects of the 1960s and ’70s. A wonderful book!
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More than five years ago - on January 26, 2000 to be exact - Simon Vinkenoog opened the congress 'New Babylon - The value of dreaming the city of tomorrow' held at the Faculty of Architecture in Delft University of Technology. For two…

January 3, 2000

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New Babylon: the value of dreaming the city of tomorrow
Twenty years after last great lecture by Constant Nieuwenhuys (Amsterdam 1920, co-founder of the CoBrA movement and the Situationist International) on his magnum opus 'New Babylon', held at the faculty of Architecture in Delft, Platform LINK returns to the scene of the crime in 'New Babylon: the value of dreaming the city of tomorrow'. On 26 and 27 January 2000 the Faculty of Architecture will be the venue of a two-day conference, inspired by Constant's dream of 'Unitary urbanism'. The aim of this symposium is to stimulate a debate on the value of utopian thought for architecture and urban planning.
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Among the speakers of the two-day symposium are the architects Peter Cook (Archigram), Léon Krier, Adolfo Natalini (Superstudio), Kas Oosterhuis and Elia Zenghelis (prev. OMA), architectural historians Françoise Choay…