Yona Friedman

Yona Friedman
Born(1923-06-05)5 June 1923
Died20 February 2020(2020-02-20) (aged 96)
Los Angeles, United States
NationalityFrench
Alma materTechnion - Israel Institute of Technology Budapest University of Technology and Economics
OccupationArchitect

Yona Friedman (5 June 1923 – 20 February 2020) was a 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". In 2018, on his 95th birthday, he was awarded the Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts.