I have been influenced by the Dutch artist and architect Constant Nieuwenhuys, whose 18-year architectural project entitled New Babylon was first conceived under the auspices of the Situationist theory of “unitary urbanism”. Constant was a founding member of the avant-garde group the Situationist International. In 1957 he began working on New Babylon and continued its development until he was forced to concede that it would never be realized, eighteen years later.
