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Does the Homogeneous City Belong to the Past?
Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon
As the case of Paris embodies, a whole culture of the European city has built its identity and organized the collective life of its inhabitants on the idea of homogeneity. The homogeneous city has thus significantly contributed to the collective self-repre ...
2019Une icône du XXe siècle délaissée. Conservation et réhabilitation de l'école de plein-air de Suresnes (E. Beaudouin, M. Lods, 1935)
Classée Monument Historique, l'école de plein-air de Suresnes a été construite en 1935 dans le courant du mouvement hygiéniste et des recherches techniques architecturales d'avant-garde. Différentes interventions transformeront l'école, plus ou moins radic ...
2017Londres, capitale du post-modernisme?
The advantage of the dynamism of the London architectural scene seems rather ignored by historians and theorists. Not only is London absent from the grand narrative of modernity, but it is also denied the status of avant-garde, although since the 1960s, th ...
EPFL2016Resistance & Compromise
Contemporary architecture and urbanism concern everyday life in multiple contradictory ways. Floating between alienation and hope, post-industrial and other interstices often hold beautiful and poetic aesthetics of decay, attracting people driven by curios ...
EPFL2016Architecture Without Content 9: The Difficult Double
Dries Rodet, Giovanni Alessandro Piovene Porto Godi, Kersten Geers, Andrea Zanderigo, Jelena Pancevac
The culture of architecture is based on misunderstandings and tweaked stories. Bad reading, simplification and superficial interpretation of something far away, both in space and time, has been the engine of quite many of the avant-gardes of the recent pas ...
2014Un espace pour la mort. Modernisation de la nécropole de Sierre (VS)
La faculté de créer, qui est propre à l'être humain, lui permet d'apprécier l'immortalité de son espèce. L'homme a conscience de lui-même et du fait qu'il est un être avec une fin. La fin de l'existence, caractérisée par la mort, est perçue dans chaque cul ...
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