EDITED BY JONATHAN HUGHES & SIMON SADLER

NON PLAN
ESSAYS ON FREEDOM PARTICIPATION AND CHANGE
IN MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM

ARCHITECTURAL PRESS

OXFORD AUCKLAND BOSTON JOHANNESBURG MELBOURNE NEW DELHJ

CONTENTS

PREFACE VIII

CONTRIBUTORS X

CREDITS XII

#01 PAUL BARKER:

THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE 2

#02 CEDRIC PRICE:

CEDRIC PRICE'S NON-PLAN DIARY 22

#03 BEN FRANKS:

NEW RIGHT/NEW LEFT 32
AN ALTERNATIVE EXPERIMENT IN FREEDOM

#04 COLI N WARD:

ANARCHY AND ARCHITECTURE 44
A PERSONAL RE CORD

#05 BARRY CURTIS:

THE HEART OF THE CITY 52

#06 I AN HORTON:
PERVASION OF THE PICTURESQUE 66
ENGLISH ARCHITECTURAL AESTHETICS AND LEGISLATION,
1945-1965

#07 ELEONORE KOFMAN AND ELiZABETH LEBAS:

RECOVERY AND REAPPROPRIATION IN LEFEBVRE
AND CONSTANT 80

#08 JONATHAN HUGHES:

THE INDETERMINATE BUILDING 90
#09 YONA FRIEDMAN:
FUNCTION FOLLOWS FORM 104

#10 JOHN BECK:

BUCKMINSTER FULLER AND THE
POLITICS OF SHELTER 116

#11 HADAS STEINER:

OFF THE MAP 126

#12 SIMON SADLER:

OPEN ENDS 138
THE SOCIAL VISIONS OF 1960S NON-PLANNING

#13 BEN HIGHMORE:

THE DEATH OF THE PLANNER? 156
PARIS CIRCA 1968

#14 JONATHAN HUGHES:

AFTER NON-PLAN 166
RETRENCHMENT AND REASSERTION

#15 CLARA GREED:

CAN MAN PLAN? CAN WOMAN PLAN BETT ER? 184

#16 MALCOLM MILES:

L1VING L1GHTLY ON THE EARTH 198

#17 CHINEDU UMENYILORA:

EMPOWERING THE SELF-BUILDER 210

#18 MARTIN PAWLEY:

TOWARDS AN UNORIGINAL ARCHITECTURE 222

#19 MICHAEL RAKOWITZ:

PARASITE 232

INDEX 236