Английская Википедия:Hubert Tonka

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Hubert Tonka (born 1943) is a French sociologist and urban planner who edited the Utopie magazine, and was one of the leaders of the Utopie movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.Шаблон:Sfn

Career

For family reasons, Tonka had to start work at a very young age. In Paris around 1960 he was taking night classes for a diploma in urban planning while working in the day, where he met other members of what would become the Utopie group.Шаблон:Sfn He worked as a plasterer in the day.Шаблон:Sfn He became the assistant of Henri Lefebvre, who was a professor at the University of Paris's institute of urban planning.Шаблон:Sfn He was an aesthete, and a refined typographer. By the end of 1966 he was a member of the editorial committee of Melp!, the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts student association's review, along with Jacques Barda, Roland Castro, Pierre Granveaud and Antoine Grumbach.Шаблон:Sfn Melp! helped to articulate the dissatisfaction of students in the lead-up to the protests of 1968.Шаблон:Sfn Tonka was co-founder of the Vincennes department of urbanism.Шаблон:Sfn

The Utopie group originated from a meeting at Lefebvre's house in 1966. It included the architects Jean Aubert, Jean-Paul Jungmann and Antoine Stinco, the landscape architect Isabelle Auricoste (his wife) and the sociologists Jean Baudrillard, René Lourau and Catherine Cot.Шаблон:Sfn Utopie, review de sociologie de l'urbain first appeared in May 1967, with Tonka as managing editor.Шаблон:Sfn Tonka created L'Imprimerie Quotidienne, which printed the magazine.Шаблон:Sfn Tonka edited and promoted collections of Baudrillard's essays, helping to draw the attention of the public to his views, which were at first Marxist but later moved towards the center.Шаблон:Sfn

Tonka became a Director at the French Institute of Architecture (1987) and a Professor of architecture and contemporary art in Bordeaux and Angers (1994).Шаблон:Sfn In the 1990s Tonka and singer, songwriter and author Jeanne-Marie Sens founded the publishing house Sens & Tonka. Tonka and Sens co-authored and published several books on architecture.

Views

Tonka gave life to the Pneumatic concepts of the Utopie group, which advocated ephemeral, inflatable structures.Шаблон:Sfn Tonka held extreme left opinions, close to the anarchists, that could be traced back to Rosa Luxemburg and Mikhail Bakunin.Шаблон:Sfn Talking of the intellectual roots of the Utopie group, Tonka said:Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Quote In a 1971 interview Tonka said "To imagine ... that it is possible to act politically through urbanism, architecture, and the detournement of either is a dream." He believed that only a revolution could change society, and this could only happen in spite of architecture, which is by definition repressive.Шаблон:Sfn

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