Résumé

Sommaire : Preface / Benno Tempel -- Constant's New Babylon : Pushing the Zeitgeist to its limits / Laura Stamps -- Constant's New Babylon and De Stijl / Willemijn Stokvis -- Extreme hospitality / Mark Wigley -- Performing the common city : On the crossroads of art, politics, and public life / Pascal Gielen -- The topsy-turvy as utopian architecture / Rem Koolhaas and Pascal Gielen discuss Constant -- Constant--New Babylon. To us, liberty / Laura Stamps -- Cobra--War & revolution : 1948-1951 -- Towards a "synthesis of arts" : 1951-1956 -- A world without borders : 1956-1958 -- New Babylon in progress : 1958-1969 -- New Babylon--Destruction & confusion : 1969-1974 -- Another city for another life : 1959 / Constant -- Lecture at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London : 1963 / Constant -- New Babylon--Ten years on : 1980 / Constant -- Biography of Constant : Amsterdam, 1920-Utrecht, 2005 / Trudy van der Horst.