Groupe Utopie. Six publications, 1968-1970

Published by Utopie, a collective of architects, sociologists and urbanists, active in Paris from 1967 to 1978. Among its founding members were Hubert Tonka, Jean Baudrillard, Jean Aubert, Antoine Stinco, Isabelle Auricoste, Jean-Paul Jungmann and Catherine Cot. The group challenged postwar modernization and urban planning by presenting radical (theoretical) alternatives, initially influenced by the ideas of the Situationist International. This set comprises six softcover booklets, each 22.5 x 14 cm, printed in b/w. Text in French.

(1) Structures gonflables. Co-published with Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, 1968. Catalogue for the exhibition on Inflatable Structures organized by Utopie, 104 pp. plus the supplement, 4 pp. Profusely ills. (2) L’argent de l’urbanisme, 1969. Address given at the first week of the International Conference 'Construction and Humanism', March 1969. Staplebound, 12 pp. with comic strip illustrations. (3) Des raisons de l’architecture, 1969. Architecture as a theoretical issue in the class struggle. Staplebound, 69 pp. (4) La logique de l'urbanisme, 1969. Staplebound, 16 pp. With some marks in green and red pen. (5) Urbaniser la lutte de classe, 1969. Staplebound, 48 pp. First edition. (6) Urbaniser la lutte de classe ou remarques critiques sur la récente tentative de pacification des contradictions, 1970. Expanded second edition of Urbaniser la lutte de classe (1969). Staplebound, 56 pp. plus 8-page insert colour printed on yellow stock. Edited by Jean Aubert, Isabelle Auricoste, Jean Baudrillard, Roland Chomel, Daniel Guibert, Jean Paul Jungmann, Arnaud Suger, and Hubert Tonka. All publications in very good condition. (total 6)