Yona Friedman's "People's Architecture" Installations use Hula Hoops to create spaces

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Architect and theorist Yona Friedman has brought his playful ?People?s Architecture? installations to Rome?s MAXXI Museum, Paris?s Les Halles and Denmark where they were recently assembled in a workshop at the Danish Association for Architects. Built using plastic hula hoops, each installation is assembled spontaneously, creating new variations of space with each turn. Says Friedman: ?Architecture for people proposes a variant of the original ?Ville Spatial.? It is based on a structure easy to modify, a structure not necessarily raised over ground level, keeping that option open if wanted.? Fun with elephants and architecture doodles. #yonafriedman A post shared by Yona Friedman (@yona_friedman) on Jul 20, 2017 at 11:22am PDT People's Architecture at the Danish Architects Association @arkitektforeningen in Copenhagen with @paper.magazine A post shared by Yona Friedman (@yona_friedman) on Jul 2, 2017 at 2:01pm PDT
Friedman, now 94, is a lifelong advocate for playful, mobile architecture that grows through an elevated urban space and celebrates people living in homes that they design themselves ? as ?non-specialists? of architecture. His ?Ville Spatial? visualizations are credited as one of the architect?s most important contributions (during an interview with Vladimir Belogolovsky) along with his 1958 manifesto for Mobile Arc...