Article: Catherine de Zegher and Mark Wigley, eds. The Activist Drawing: Retracing Situationist Architectures from Constant's New Babylon to Beyond.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. $29.95 (cloth).

THIS PUBLICATION ARISES FROM and preserves an exhibition mounted at the Drawing Center in New York during 1999. Most of its contents started as papers delivered at an accompanying symposium. It includes a wide-ranging interview with Constant himself, and concludes with a helpful chronology of his career between 1952 and 1974. The terminal date is chosen because it marked the end of the New Babylon project, which was then exhibited at the Haags Gemeentemuseum. That institution subsequently acquired many of the exhibits. Thanks to copious illustration, both in black and white and in colour, the character of much of ...

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