Editorial: Megaspace structure Yona Friedman and Eckhard Schulze – Fielitz

Abstract

Equally fascinated by the space frame, Yona Friedman and Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz came up with one of the most powerful alternative answers to the international crisis of urbanism and architecture in the late fifties and through the sixties. Megaspacestructure will be the portmanteau forged to encompass their common and distinctive view. The blended word subsumes the overriding features of their production, which impacted the theory of architecture and still question – up until this reassessment of their work – the “future of the city” as both project and fiction