The child, the city and the artist

In 1962, ALDO van Eyck completed The Child, the CITY and the Artist after the closure of the CIAM in 1959 and the enthusiastic reception of the course on the interaction of the child and the city that he taught at the University of Pennsylvania in 1960. The essay brings together a selection of texts, proposals and quotes where imagination (the child), the configurative discipline as a reunification of architecture and urbanism (the city) and the creative process (the artist) make up the profile and figure of the architect.