Henri Lefebvre who lived from 1901 to 1991
26 Mar 2014 A lost manuscript by the philosophical godfather of the 1968 protest movement and inspiration for today's urban protestors has been discovered by a University of Manchester lecturer. The manuscript, by Frenchman Henri Lefebvre who lived from 1901 to 1991, was discovered by Dr Łukasz Stanek at a private home in Spain. Though considered to be one of the most important urban thinkers of recent times, it is Lefebvre's only book on the subject. Called Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment, it will be published in English by University of Minnesota Press in May 2014, to add to the sixty books and three hundred articles by the celebrated thinker. It had miraculously survived a flood which had ruined the contents of the shelves beneath where it had stood for since the 1970s. Lefebvre's manuscript was written in 1973 as a part of a larger study on mass tourism on the Spanish Mediterranean coast, in particular Benidorm. Dr Stanek said: "Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is the first publication in any language of the only book devoted to architecture by Henri Lefebvre.
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