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Friedman, Yona, 1923-2020

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Personal name headingFriedman, Yona, 1923-2020
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Variant(s)Friedman, Yona, 1923-
Associated countryHungary Israel France
Birth date1923-06-05
Death date2020-02-20
Place of birthBudapest (Hungary)
AffiliationGroupe d'Études d'Architecture Mobile
Profession or occupationArchitects Designers City planners
Found innuc87-88198: His About critical groupsize, c1980 (hdg. on NbU rept.: Friedman, Yona, 1923- ; usage: Yona Friedman)
LC data base, 7/7/88 (hdg.: Friedman, Yona, 1923- )
The Quaternary sector, c1979: t.p. (Yona Friedman)
Yona Friedman's Wikipedia page, viewed on May 1, 2018 (Yona Friedman; born on 5 June 1923 in Budapest; Hungarian-born French architect, urban planner and designer. He was influential in the late 1950s and early 1960s, best known for his theory of mobile architecture)
The architect's newspaper (online), French architect and theorist Yona Friedman dies at 96, February 21, 2020, viewed June 30, 2020 (Yona Friedman, Hungarian-born French architect and urban planner has died at age 96; born in Budapest in 1923 to a Jewish family; escape persecution during World War II and resettled in Haifa, Israel; emigrated to Paris in 1957, established the Groupe d'Études d'Architecture Mobile (GEAM) with French architect Jan Trapman that year; obtained French citizenship nearly a decade later; married to French film editor Denise Charvein (died 2007), with whom he collaborated; in the early 1960s they produced a series of animated films, Stories of Africa, that brought African folk tales to life)
Wikipedia, June 30, 2020 (Yona Friedman; 5 June 1923 - 20 February 2020; in 1958 founded the Groupe d'études de architecture [sic] mobile (GEAM), which dissolved in 1962; became a French citizen in 1966)
Associated languagefre eng