Isou’s Bouleversement

– Editors

Je pense que par la masse des définitions nouvelles et par la masse des secteurs inédits dévoilés, ce petit livre est le plus important ouvrage paru dans toute l’historie de l’architecture ou du moins le plus important ouvrage paru depuis plusieurs siécles en ce domaine.

I believe that in terms of the mass of new definitions and the mass of new areas revealed, this little book is the most important work to have appeared in the entire history of architecture, or at least the most important work to have appeared in this field for several centuries.

Extract from Isidore Isou’s publication Le Bouleversement de l’Architecture (1966), recently acquired by Drawing Matter. Isidore Isou, a Romanian-French poet, was the founder of Lettrism, an art and literary movement which owed much to Dada and Surrealism.