Yona Friedman

Yona Friedman
Born(1923-06-05)5 June 1923
Died20 February 2020(2020-02-20) (aged 96)
Los Angeles, United States
NationalityFrench
Alma materTechnion - Israel Institute of Technology Budapest University of Technology and Economics
OccupationArchitect

Yona Friedman (5 June 1923 – 20 February 2020)[1] was a Hungarian-born French architect, urban planner and designer. He was influential in the late 1950s and early 1960s, best known for his theory of "mobile architecture".[2] In 2018, on his 95th birthday he was awarded the Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts.[3]

  1. ^ "Yona Friedman, French Architect and Urban Planner Passes Away at 96". ArchDaily. February 21, 2020.
  2. ^ Harris, William (19 April 2016). "cities in the sky: re-evaluating yona friedman". 3am. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  3. ^ https://www.kiesler.org/en/kiesler-prize-2018. kiesler.org. Retrieved 11 April 2024.