Archinecter rutger has posted that Dutch TV and Radio reported today the death of Constant Nieuwenhuys, also known as Constant. Wikipedia has also posted that he passed today. Constant was best known for his manifestos on urban life after the end of the machine age and his magnificent renditions of an imaginary city, New Babylon. He was part of the Situationists International and co-founder of the CoBrA group. His art represented ideas about networked spaces that obliterated asigned capitalist functions. His impact on urbanism and architecture could not be overstated, given that his notions were later taken up and advanced by groups like Archigram, Superstudio and OMA.
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"His impact on urbanism and architecture could not be understated"
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reports in Z german
Murió fundador de grupo Cobra
El pintor holandés Constant, uno de los fundadores del grupo internacional de artistas Cobra, murió ayer en la ciudad de Utrecht a los 85 años. Constant Nieuwenhuys promovió en los años posteriores a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, a través de numerosos textos, una nueva sociedad con arte moderno, para la cual podrÃa tomarse como ejemplo el poder de imaginación de los niños. A fines de los años cuarenta fundó junto a otros artistas el Nederlandse Experimentele Groep, que luego se convirtió en el Grupo Cobra (nombre formado por las ciudades Copenhague, Bruselas, Amsterdam).
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