Architect of the Week: Yona Friedman
August 15th, 2016
August 15th, 2016
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Yona Friedman is a Hungarian-born French architect. His theory and manifesto L’Architecture Mobile, published in 1958, champions the inhabitant as designer and conceptor of his own living space within space-frame structures. Friedman’s work, developed to facilitate improvisation, influenced avant-garde groups such the Metabolists and Archigram.
In 2016 Friedman was commissioned by the Serpentine Galleries to create a Summer House as part of the institution’s renowned annual architecture programme.
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