Ivan Vladimirovitch Chtcheglov (in Russian: Иван Владимирович Щеглов)
16 January 1933–April 21 1998
political theorist, activist and poet, born in Paris of Russian parents.
He wrote Formulaire pour un urbanisme nouveau (Formulary for a New Urbanism) in 1953, at age nineteen under the name Gilles Ivain. The text was an inspiration to the Lettrist International and Situationist International. It included the phrase "the hacienda must be built", which influenced Tony Wilson of Factory Records in naming his Manchester night-club, The Hacienda.
He tried to deconstruct the Eiffel Tower and was arrested and committed to a mental hospital by his wife, where he was subdued with insulin and shock therapy, and remained for 5 years. He died in 1998.
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