About: Roger Katan

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Roger G. Katan is a French-American architect, planner, sculptor, and activist born in Berguent (today's Aïn Bni Mathar), Eastern Morocco, on January 5, 1931. Based in the United States in the early 1960s, he was an active founder of advocacy planning, participatory democracy applied to urban planning. As a kinetic artist, he collaborated and exhibited with rising figures of postmodern art. After 1975, Katan became involved in humanitarian relief and continued to encourage participatory practices and self-management. His method favors traditional, sustainable agriculture and construction. In 1999 he moved to Sauve, southern France, where he resumed work on kinetic sculpture and publications.

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  • Roger G. Katan est un architecte, urbaniste et sculpteur franco-américain né le 5 janvier 1931 à Berguent (aujourd’hui Aïn Bni Mathar), dans le Maroc Oriental. Au début des années soixante aux États-Unis, il est l’un des initiateurs et praticiens de l’advocacy planning, qui prône la démocratie participative dans le domaine de l’aménagement urbain. Artiste cinétique, il fréquente et expose avec les figures montantes du post-modernisme. À partir de 1975, il s’investit dans l’action humanitaire et continue d’encourager la participation et l’autogestion des populations défavorisées. Sa pratique privilégie les méthodes de culture et de construction traditionnels et durables. Installé depuis 1999 à Sauve, dans le Gard, il s’est remis à la sculpture luminocinétique et travaille sur ses publications. (fr)
  • Roger G. Katan is a French-American architect, planner, sculptor, and activist born in Berguent (today's Aïn Bni Mathar), Eastern Morocco, on January 5, 1931. Based in the United States in the early 1960s, he was an active founder of advocacy planning, participatory democracy applied to urban planning. As a kinetic artist, he collaborated and exhibited with rising figures of postmodern art. After 1975, Katan became involved in humanitarian relief and continued to encourage participatory practices and self-management. His method favors traditional, sustainable agriculture and construction. In 1999 he moved to Sauve, southern France, where he resumed work on kinetic sculpture and publications. (en)
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  • Berguent , Morocco (en)
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  • Katan in New York 1967 (en)
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  • Visual arts and architecture: lives and works in Sauve, France (en)
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  • Advocacy Planning, Kinetic art (en)
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  • Roger G. Katan (en)
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  • Building Together, New Village Press, 2014 Bâtir ensemble, CILF, 1988 De quoi se mêlent les urbanistes?, Actes Sud, 1979 (en)
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  • Roger G. Katan is a French-American architect, planner, sculptor, and activist born in Berguent (today's Aïn Bni Mathar), Eastern Morocco, on January 5, 1931. Based in the United States in the early 1960s, he was an active founder of advocacy planning, participatory democracy applied to urban planning. As a kinetic artist, he collaborated and exhibited with rising figures of postmodern art. After 1975, Katan became involved in humanitarian relief and continued to encourage participatory practices and self-management. His method favors traditional, sustainable agriculture and construction. In 1999 he moved to Sauve, southern France, where he resumed work on kinetic sculpture and publications. (en)
  • Roger G. Katan est un architecte, urbaniste et sculpteur franco-américain né le 5 janvier 1931 à Berguent (aujourd’hui Aïn Bni Mathar), dans le Maroc Oriental. Au début des années soixante aux États-Unis, il est l’un des initiateurs et praticiens de l’advocacy planning, qui prône la démocratie participative dans le domaine de l’aménagement urbain. Artiste cinétique, il fréquente et expose avec les figures montantes du post-modernisme. À partir de 1975, il s’investit dans l’action humanitaire et continue d’encourager la participation et l’autogestion des populations défavorisées. Sa pratique privilégie les méthodes de culture et de construction traditionnels et durables. Installé depuis 1999 à Sauve, dans le Gard, il s’est remis à la sculpture luminocinétique et travaille sur ses publicatio (fr)
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  • Roger Katan (fr)
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