New Babylonians

Contemporary Visions of a Situationist City

Author:

Iain Borden

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Though latterly infamous as a city of ill-repute, ancient Babylon, with its hanging gardens, was a cosmopolitan cultural centre and a city of freedom and law. In 1959, a member of the Situationist International, the Dutch artist Constant Niewenhuys, entitled his utopian vision of a unitary urbanism 'New Babylon'. With the aid of coloured perspectives, plans and models, as well as a potent narrative, Constant delivered a shocking image of a metropolitan future.

Today, over 40 years later, there is a renewed wave of interest in Constant and the thinking of the Situationist International. In two seminal essays by Mark Wigley and David Pinder, quite how substantial their impact on urbanism has been is revealed. It is, however through the publication that a highly disparate group of architectural practices and cultural thinkers emerge - the New Babylonians - all inspired in very different ways by situatism.

New Babylonians features articles by:

• General Lighting & Power

• Jon Jerde

• Stalker

• Carlos Villaneuva Brandt

• West 8

• Zoo

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