New Babylon is an anti-capitalist city perceived and designed in 1959-74 as a future potentiality by visual artist Constant Nieuwenhuys.
"[1] The goal was the creating of alternative life experiences, called "situations", Sarah Williams Goldhagen explained:[3] [In the 1950s, Constant] had already been working for years on his "New Babylon" series of paintings, sketches, texts, and architectural models describing the shape of a post-revolutionary society.
Constant's New Babylon was to be a series of linked transformable structures, some of which were themselves the size of a small city--what architects call a megastructure.
Perched above ground, Constant's megastructures would literally leave the bourgeois metropolis below and would be populated by homo ludens--man at play.
Deductive reasoning, goal-oriented production, the construction and betterment of a political community--all these were eschewed.Nieuwenhuys' New Babylon was based on the idea that architecture itself would allow and instigate a transformation of daily reality.